Satire
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
'Gaelic satire', 1893
Although there is a notebook with the same title in this collection (B25), they do not appear to be the same text. This notebook contains a discussion on the use of satire in Gaelic literature.
'Gaelic satire', 1893
Although there is a notebook with the same title in this collection (B24), they do not appear to be the same text. This notebook contains what appears to be a script for a lecture, presumably for students in Celtic. However, 'Aberdeen Celtic Society', 'Edinburgh Gaelic Choir(?)', and 'Oban Highland Association' are also mentioned on the front cover, so it may have been used for different presentations in different years.
Punch Cartoon. 'Mother Goose-Step Rhymes or Letting Loose the Doggrel of War', 1870s-1930s
Illustration of a World War I satirical cartoon entitled, 'Mother Goose-Step Rhymes or Letting Loose the Doggrel of War' from the Punch Almanack of 1915 showing a goose wearing a German helmet running away from a man letting an English bulldog off its lead to give chase.
Satirical saying about Invergarry people beginning 'Bean a strath eirionn', August 1909
Satirical saying about Invergarry [Inbhir Gharadh, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire] people beginning 'Bean a strath eirionn' [Srath Ăˆireann/Strathearn, Siorramachd Pheairt/Perthshire]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Song and story about the tacksman of Bernisdale, Skye by Gille na Ciotaig, 1877
Story about Gille na Ciotaig and accompanying song 'Bodach Bhearnasdail', 1877
Story entitled 'A Chliarsheanachain' [itinerant band/sorners], 5 March 1895
The March of the "Unemployed" to the House, 1870s-1930s
Political cartoon entitled, 'The March of the "Unemployed" to the House' showing a group of men (Gulland, McKenna, Asquith, Ramsay Macdonald, Henderson, etc) holding signs as they head towards Parliament in London. Beneath the cartoon is the line, 'Shall we see the defeated Asquithians and Pacifists following the example of the Suffragettes in pre-war days in a [?].' January 1919.