Loss (of people or things)
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
Song entitled 'Grigal', 8 April 1869
Song entitled 'Grigal' beginning 'Ba ba ba mo leanabh'. Note written transversely reads 'See Turner's Collection page 286'. Also includes a note about St Brigit [Saint Bride]. Text has been scored through as if the text has been transcribed elsewhere.
Song entitled 'Iain Garbh', 4 April 1876
Song entitled 'Iain Garbh' collected from Mairi Nicrath [Mary MacRae], Caolas Stiatar, Na h-Erradh [Caolas Stiadar/Sound of Stiadar, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] beginning 'Gur a mise tha bronach gun ri leughadh a leo'rach'. Mary states that she is 'close upon 100 years old'.
Song entitled 'Is Ann A Ghabh Mi Mo Chead' and accompanying note, 23 March 1871
Song entitled 'Iubhrach Nan Guala Geala', nd
Song entitled 'Iubhrach Nan Guala Geala' beginning 'Moch Diluain ghabh i n cuan, Te bhoidheach nan guala geala'. The song is composed of thirty three lines arranged into fifteen verses in couplets and a chorus.
Song entitled 'Mac 'Ic ailean' and accompanying note, 2 December 1870
Song entitled 'Mac 'Ic ailean' collected from Mor Nic Neill nighean Alastair Mhic neill [Mor MacNeil], cottar, Ceanntangbhal, Barrai [Ceanntangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Barra] beginning 'M' ulai 'us m uaill, Ho hi o ho horo ghealla'. The note states that the song was said to have been composed by Mac 'ic Ailean's wife, a daughter of MacLeod of Harris to Clanranald when they had become estranged.
Song entitled 'Oran Sì' and accompanying story, 8 April 1869
Story about a lament [probably Cumha Mhic an Toisich], September 1872
Story about a lament [probably Cumha Mhic an Tòisich] probably collected from Marion MacNeil, Ceanntangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Isle of Barra, telling how it was composed by a lady whose husband was killed on his return from being married. His death by a black horse had been predicted so he struck the black horse with his pistol and took a white horse instead but he was careless and his feet got tangled in the stirrups and he was dragged along the ground by the horse and was killed.