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Laments

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

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Song entitled 'Cumha Mhic an Toisich', 25 September 1872 and 4 January 1876

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/126
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Cumha Mhic an Toisich' [Cumha Mhic an Tòisich or MacIntosh's Lament] collected from Mor Nic Neil, daughter of Alexander MacNeil, Ceantang[abhal] [Marion MacNeil, Ceanntangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] beginning ''S mise bhean mhul[adach] giulan a churaic'. The song is composed of sixty-five lines, mostly set out as four line stanzas. The text has been scored through in ink and a note written transversely across the first page of text reads 'Sent to the Highlander...
Dates: 25 September 1872 and 4 January 1876