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Ireland

 Subject
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Found in 74 Collections and/or Records:

Section 20: Ireland, c 1850-1852

 Series
Identifier: Coll-20/1/20
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series consists of five boxes of photographs showing scenes of Ireland, Paris, Switzerland, Rome, Pompei, Athens, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Cairo, Thebes, Abu Simbel, Nubia, Petra, and more.

Dates: c 1850-1852

Song beginning 'A phiurag nan run liura' and accompanying note, 22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/21
Scope and Contents Song collected from Ruari mac Dhonil [Roderick MacNeil], aged 94 years, Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] beginning 'A phiurag nan run liura, Bheil u d chadal fa[tha]st a ruin' [A Phiuthrag na Run or Little Sister of Love]. The song is composed of twenty-two lines, has a number of amendments in pencil and has been scored through in ink, with a note written transversely across it which reads 'Trans[cribed] June 16 1869'. The accompanying note states that this cumha or lament was heard in a dream,...
Dates: 22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869

Song beginning 'Oganaich uasail nan camlagan dualacha tiugh', 28 November 1865

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/24
Scope and Contents

Song beginning 'Oganaich uasail nan camlagan dualacha tiugh, Cha ne n gaol fuadain a rin[n] mise san uair a thoirt dhuit'. A note after song reads ' = Conal Gulban mac Neil noie Iollach ioc Ich ioc Oich ioc Ceart ioc Neart ioc Ard Righ Eirionn', which perhaps refers to the person about whom the song was composed.

Dates: 28 November 1865

Song entitled 'Duan an Deirg' and accompanying story, 14 March 1867

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/6
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Duan an Deirg' [Lay of Dearg] and accompanying story Donul Mac a Phie [Donald MacPhee], smith, Breubhaig, Barraidh [Brèibhig/Breivig, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] beginning 'Airis dhuinn Oisein dhamach, A mhic Fh[inn] shuairce sho-ghradhaire' and composed of a hundred and forty four lines. The text is written in ink but written transversely across the first page in pencil is 'Transcribed April 30 1869'. MacPhee states that he heard the song from 'Eachun mac Neil [Hector MacNeil] a...
Dates: 14 March 1867

Song entitled 'Duan an Domhnaich', 24 September 1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/108
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Duan an Domhnaich' [Hymn of the Sunday] collected from John Pearson, cottar, Ceanntangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Isle of Barra beginning 'Domhnach neamhai neul nan gradh mo chri am chombarst saor'. The note preceding the song reads 'His great grandfather bro[ugh]t from Ireland where he had been at school'. Text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 24 September 1872

Song entitled 'Eala Bhan Na h-Eireann', accompanying translation and charm, nd

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW152/5
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Eala Bhan Na h-Eireann' beginning 'Latha chaidh Calumcille mach, Anns a mhaduinn mhoich' and accompanying translation. The song is composed of thirty lines, arranged as five verses of six lines each. After the translation, which is given in prose format, is a charm which reasd 'The mild eye of C[hrist] be on thy hurt, The charm of love to make thee whole'.

Dates: nd

Song entitled 'Laoi Na Buileartaich', 7 April 1869

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/46
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Laoi Na Buileartaich' ['Duan na Muileartaich/Muireartaich'] collected from Don[u]l Donullach [Donald MacDonald] age 6, Snaoisveall [Sniseabhal/Snishival, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. Carmichael notes that 'The boy heard this from his grandfather who heard it from his own father when a boy.'

Dates: 7 April 1869

Song entitled 'Seathain Mac Righ Eirinn', nd

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW152/17
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Seathain Mac Righ Eirinn' beginning ''S mairg a chual e 's nach do dh innis e, Gun robh mo leanna 's am Minginish'. The text is not presented in verses but in seventy six consecutive lines and has been annotated in ink.

Dates: nd

Song entitled 'Suiridh Nighean Righ Eirinn', nd

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW152/21
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Suiridh Nighean Righ Eirinn' beginning 'Is cailin thus is buachaill mise, Chailin oig nach stiuir thu mi'. The song is composed of eighty-seven lines, arranged into a five line chorus and eighty two lines of verse, which have been annotated by Carmichael in ink.

Dates: nd

Stories about Donl Rua, Somhairle Rua and Am Piocar Mor, 14 July 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/92
Scope and Contents Stories collected from Roderick MacKenzie, carpenter, aged 68 years, Sruthan Ruadh, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist about Don[u]l Rua [Dòmhnall Ruadh], Somhairle Rua[dh] and Am Piocar Mòr. The first story tells how eighteen of the MacVicar ministers were buried in Caibeal Baile Raghnaill and that Dòmhnall Ruadh had permission to bury and build a wall around them but when the road was built he refused to let MacVicars be buried there. The second tells how Somhairle Ruadh was the son of 'nin...
Dates: 14 July 1870