Hogmanay
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Custom about 'Caisean uchd', 1904
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/41
Scope and Contents
Custom which reads 'Caisean uchd is eaten - tho first bit eaten of this only'
Dates:
1904
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108
Scope and Contents
Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing songs, poems, tales, names, vocabulary and expressions collected in the Outer Hebrides [Na h-Eileanan an Iar]. The first part of the volume contains transcriptions taken as Carmichael listened to informants in 1877 while the second part appears to be copies of previous transcriptions of material collected by Carmichael and Rev Malcolm MacPhail in 1874 and written into the notebook in 1891. Amongst the material is a version of the lament...
Dates:
1874, 1877 and 1891
Note on caisean-callaig, 19 March 1891
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/86
Scope and Contents
Note the custom of bringing caisean-callaig to a house at New Year, collected from Mary Nighe[an] Iain Bhain [Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, Sgeabost/Skeabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. Carmichael notes 'The rann is unfit to print.'
Dates:
19 March 1891
Poem for Hogmanay, 19 March 1891
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/84
Scope and Contents
Callainn [Hogmanay] poem collected from Mary Nighe[an] Iain Bhain [Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, Sgeabost/Skeabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] beginning 'Bon[ach [dine] fuine nam ban, Be siud an roillgerach tiugh'. The poem is composed of four lines.
Dates:
19 March 1891
Poem for Hogmanay, 19 March 1891
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/85
Scope and Contents
Callainn [Hogmanay] poem collected from Mary Nighe[an] Iain Bhain [Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, Sgeabost/Skeabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] beginning 'Thainig mi an tigh so, Ho ro la ri o'. The poem is composed of eleven lines.
Dates:
19 March 1891
Poem for Hogmanay beginning 'Cha neil mi tha nad ard', 27 October 1873
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW115/28
Scope and Contents
Poem for Hogmanay beginning 'Cha neil mi tha nad ard, Nach cois part de mar anas'.
Dates:
27 October 1873
Rhyme beginning 'Chulaig seo! challaig seo!' and accompanying note, 17 January 1874
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/43
Scope and Contents
Rhyme collected from Duncan MacLellan, clachair [mason], Càrnan/Carnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, beginning 'Chulaig seo! challaig seo! chul[aig] Chul[aig] o cahl[aig] o air an to[bh]ta' noting that it was what the 'gillean cullaig' [Hogmanay boys] said as they came to the house.
Dates:
17 January 1874
Song beginning 'Mis an noc a tighinn gar ionnsuidh', 17 January 1874
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/37
Scope and Contents
Song beginning 'Mis an noc a tighinn gar ionnsuidh, A dh urachadh dhuibh na Callaig' [Cairioll Callaig or Hogmanay Carol] collected from Duncan MacLellan, crofter, Càrnan/Carnan, South Uist [Uibhist a Deas].
Dates:
17 January 1874
Song beginning 'Mise noc a tin gar n ion', 17 January 1874
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/41
Scope and Contents
Song collected from Duncan MacLellan, clachair [mason], Càrnan/Carnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, beginning 'Mise noc[hd] a ti[ghin]n gar n ion[nsuidh], Dh ur[achadh] dhuibh na Callaig' [Cairioll Callaig or Hogmanay Carol]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
17 January 1874
Song entitled 'Duan Callaig', 19 October 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/117
Scope and Contents
Song entitled 'Duan Callaig' [The Song of Hogmanay or Heire Bannag or Hey The Gift] collected from Gilleaspa Moriston [Archibald Morrison], Staonabrig [Staoinebrig/Stoneybridge, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning 'Triuir a noc[hd] mar oi[dh]che chasga, Mar oi[dh]che bhuchain bhachain sgrios'. The song is composed of twenty-two lines and has been scored through in ink. Written transversely across the first page of text is 'Transcribed into Book No 3 page 98 A[lexander] A[rchibald]...
Dates:
19 October 1870