Warriors
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
Song entitled 'Oran Alastair ic Colla' and accompanying note, 19 October 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/116
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Song entitled 'Oran Alastair ic Colla', collected from Seonaid Churrai [Janet Currie], aged 70 years, Staonebrig [Staoinebrig/Stoneybridge, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning 'Hile inn o ho, a, huill o ro han, Hilleirin ho, Mul[adach] Mul[adach] tha mi, Dire[adh] na bein[ne] sga tearnad[h]'. The song is composed of forty-two lines. The accompanying note reads 'Aoine is a for[tunate] day many per[sons] will not do anything on Friday - cut not peats corn or lift pot[atoes]'. The text has...
Dates:
19 October 1870
Song entitled 'Uistean mhic Illeaspa Chalum', 22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/30
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Song entitled 'Uistean mhic Illeaspa Chalum' probably collected from Mary MacDonald, aged about 28 years, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay beginning 'S Minig a thachra riut eir sheallach, Fraochan feirge eir a mhalai'. The song is composed of forty-one lines. The text contains some amendments and has been scored through in ink with 'B[ook] [-] P[age] [-] Trans[cribed] June 16 1869 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael]' written transversely across it.
Dates:
22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
Story about Cuchulainn, 6 April 1869
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/41
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Story collected from Duncan MacDonald, Donnachadh Mac an Taillear [Donnachadh Mac an Tàillear], from Snaosveall [Sniseabhal/Snishival, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist], which Duncan had heard from his father, who died over 40 years before [c.1829] aged about 80 years. The story is about a rescue by Cuchulainn.
Dates:
6 April 1869
Story about Dearg, 16 January 1866
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW104/8
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Story about Dearg which gives rise to the origin of 'lamh dhearg nan Donllach' [the red hand of the MacDonalds] and the MacDonald's moniker as 'siol Chuinn'. The story tells how Dearg, a Fenian warrior, has two children a strong, handsome son and a beautiful girl. He encounters a young woman and asks her if she will marry his son. She reluctantly agrees but when she sees how big and strong he is and realises that he has still to grow and will become bigger and stronger she is afraid and runs...
Dates:
16 January 1866
Story about Fenians and accompanying notes from the informant about story-telling, 24 April 1866
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW104/28
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Story about Art, a Fenian warrior, collected from Eachann Maciosaig [Hector MacIsaac], Iocar [Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist], who heard it from Ruari Rua [Roderick MacQuien, catechist] and accompanying notes from the informant about story-telling. Hector begins with the sloinneadh [patronymic] of Caramag mac Art. The story then relates how Art married Nighean Rìgh Lochlann but cheated on her. Rìgh Lochlann was very angry so he banished Art overseas. He went travelling...
Dates:
24 April 1866
Story about how Fionn came to marry Rìgh Lochlann's daughter, March 1867
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/11
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Story collected from Donald MacPhee, smith, Brèibhig/Breivig, Barraigh/Isle of Barra in which Fionn meets an old man/giant on the road but Conan is suspcious of him so the man is questioned as to who he is. He says he is a messenger from Rìgh Lochlann [King of Norway] and is consequently put in a hole by Conan. He tells Fionn that Rìgh Lochlann's daughter fell in love with him the first time he was in Lochlann/Norway and that she is so love-sick she is on her death-bed and so Rìgh Lochlann...
Dates:
March 1867
Story entitled 'Aireamh Fir Fhinn ris Dhubhain (Shuarain?)' and accompanying song, c1862
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/62
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Story entitled 'Aireamh Fir Fhinn ris Dhubhain (Shuarain?)' collected from Eachunn Donullach [Hector MacDonald], Talamh-sgeir, Eilean a Cheo [Talaisgeir/Talisker, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. The story gives the background to the song telling how Dubhan or Suaran invited Fionn and his men to his house with the intention of killing them. His daughter, who had fallen for Fionn, got wind of this and warned him and so they were spared but when Dubhan found out he killed her...
Dates:
c1862
Story entitled 'Bhalantaidh us Horsantaidh', 18 January 1865
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/9
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Story entitled 'Bhalantaidh us Horsantaidh' collected from Alasdair Mac Neil [Alexander MacNeil], Ceantangbhall [Ceanntangabhal/Kentagaval, Barraigh/Isle of Barra]. The story begins with Rìgh Lochlann's daughter being married off to an emperor and being accompanied to her new home by only one kinsman. The emperor's house priest falls in love with her and while the emperor is hunting, he declares his love for her and expects her to reciprocate. She refuses to do so and locks up the priest...
Dates:
18 January 1865
Story entitled 'Ceudach Nan Collachain Oir' and accompanying note, 29 January 1875
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/127
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Story entitled 'Ceudach Nan Collachain Oir' probably collected from John MacInnes, aged 70 years, Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The story begins with Fionn and his men out hunting. They have so much success that they decide to leave some of it for collection on the way home. Gille Glas appears and asks to be employed by Fionn so Fionn has him help take the kill home. Caoilte, the fastest Fenian, and the Gille Glas arrive at the feasting hall before anyone else and...
Dates:
29 January 1875
Story entitled 'John MacLeod', 31 August 1909
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/72
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Story entitled 'John MacLeod' about a famous swordsman who 'could cut the button from the neck of his opponent's shirt'. He was smothered by a snow storm by 'his own garden wall' having been out hunting. The story states that his tomb is in the church at Rodail [St Clement's Church, Rodel, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] and that the stone for it was hewn locally at Geocrab. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
31 August 1909