Heroes
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Proverb which reads 'Is fhurasda buile an t-seann laoich [fhein air] 12 young [heroes]', June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/151
Scope and Contents
Proverb which reads 'Is fhurasda buile an t-seann laoich [fhein air] 12 young [heroes]'. The text is difficult to read and each line has been scored through horizontally.
Dates:
June 1887
Story entitled 'An Ceatharnach', 5 December 1865
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/27
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'An Ceatharnach' collected from Donull Mac Iain mac Iain ic Ra'al [Donald Johnston], crofter, Eirisga [Eiriosgaigh/Eriskay]. An Ceatharnach caol riach [grey grizzled outlaw] arrives at O Donuil's [O'Donnell] banquet having travelled through Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man and asks to listen to the music. He is not invited in but goes in anyway and after several musicians play he plays the clarsach and sends the whole room to sleep except for Galloglach who get hold of an...
Dates:
5 December 1865
Story entitled 'Mac a Ghobhain', 6 February 1861
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/18
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Mac a Ghobhain' collected from William [MacKenzie], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. At the beginning of the story Carmichael notes 'Already in print page 84 Volum[e] 1st'. The story tells how the blacksmith's son asks the blacksmith to make him an iron stick. The blacksmith makes one, which is not strong enough but the second one is just right and so the blacksmith's son goes off with the ambition to make something of himself. He gets a job as a...
Dates:
6 February 1861