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Hunting

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:

Fragment of the story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean', c1861

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/13
Scope and Contents

Fragment of the story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean' [similar to folktales of 'The Extraordinary Companion'] probably collected from Ruaridh Camshron [Roderick Cameron], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] which can be found at CW109/2, folio 3v.

Dates: c1861

Fragment of the story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean', 1861

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/14
Scope and Contents

Fragment of the story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean' [similar to folktales of 'The Extraordinary Companion'] probably collected from Ruaridh Camshron [Roderick Cameron], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] which can be found at CW109/2, folio 3v.

Dates: 1861

Genealogical notes and stories about the Livingstone family, 4 October 1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/40
Scope and Contents Genealogical notes and stories about the Livingstone family including their connections with Kerrera, Ulva and Blantyre [Cearrara, and Ulbha, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire and Lanarkshire] and David Livingstone the explorer. There is a story about a Livingstone at Achnacree killing a deer for the King with an arrow and subsequently losing possession of Dail an eas [Achadh na Crithe and Dail an Eas/Dalness, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. Also includes a story about 'The baron who bro[ugh]t body...
Dates: 4 October 1892

Geographical notes on An Rò'adh and accompanying story about hunting birds, 9 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/37
Scope and Contents Geographical notes on An Rò'adh near Siatar describing the natural arch there and speculating on how it was formed [Roagh and SheadarTarasaigh/Taransay]. The accompanying story describes the ravens' nests made of heather and seagrass at Raogh and tells how the shepherd who is with Carmichael had killed seven chicks that year and five fledglings the year before 'so the poor Beat[aich] has no chance of siol'. Carmichael compares Roagh to Sloc Rò [Sloc Ruadh] in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist where...
Dates: 9 July 1870

Hunting Continues in Ireland and Derbyshire Bull-Tamer, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1997
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Photographs of the farmers of County Meath going to the 'covert at a meet of the Meath Hounds' after ignoring 'a Sinn Fein order directing them not to allow hunting over their land'; and of a boy, Ralph Chamberlain, the son of a Derbyshire farmer with a young bull that he's trained as a mount and for draught purposes to work the farm in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Incomplete notes on seal-hunting areas around North Uist and accompanying sayings, c1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/36
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Incomplete notes on the different areas and pennylands in the north west of Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist and the proportion of caught seals they receive and an accompanying note relating to Odar, the Viking raider, whose head was buried in Griminis/Griminish.

Dates: c1875

Khond Beaters, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1449
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Photograph of a group of Khond men who act as beaters on a bear hunt in [Orissa, India] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Legend about the wren and the Irish army, 4 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/6
Scope and Contents Legend about the dreolan or wren and the Irish army that when the English were asleep and the Irish were about to attack them during the night [at the Battle of the Boyne] the wren began eating crumbs on the drummer's head, waking him up and allowing him to alert the English to the attack. Consequently, 'the irish take a day in the year to kill the Dreathan (wren (St Pat[rick]?)' [referring to Wren Day or St Stephen's Day, 26 December]. Text has been scored through in pencil perhaps to...
Dates: 4 June 1887

List of proverbs relating to fishing and hunting, 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/22
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List of seven proverbs relating to fishing and hunting. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1901

Man Hunting Antelopes in Africa, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/340
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man crouching behind a rock outcroping getting ready to shoot some antelopes in Africa in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s