Laments
Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:
Song entitled 'Mac Iain 'ic Sheumais' and accompanying note, 10 February 1870
Song entitled 'Mararan do Thirmaid, 7 April 1869
Song entitled 'Mararan do Thirmaid mac mhic ic Aileain' [Marbhrann do Thormaid]', beginning 'Fhuaras neac an dè', collected from Donald MacDonald, age 6, Sniseabhal/Snishival, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. Tormod, for whom the lament was written, was a young nobleman who died of yellow fever while in France. Text has been scored through as if to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.
Song entitled 'Na H-Iolairean', 23 March 1869
Song entitled 'Na H-Iolairean' beginning 'A Dhun dui sin ’s a Dhun dui' collected from Fionaghal nin Chalum Nic Leoid [Flora MacLeod], Baileshear [Baile Sear/Baleshare, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist]. Carmichael notes that Flora heard this from John Stewart at Baleshare who died in 1868 age 78.
Song entitled 'Oran Alastair ic Colla' and accompanying note, 19 October 1870
Song entitled 'Oran an Fhuadaich', 8 July 1870
Song entitled 'Oran an Fhuadaich' collected from Mor nic Cuinn ni Choin[nich] ic Neill ic nNeill ic Cuinn Oirisy [Marion MacQueen, Tarasaigh/Taransay] beginning 'Ochadan a lagaich m eubha, S fheudar steid eir bheagan feuma'. The song is composed of seventeen lines.
Song entitled 'Oran Si' and accompanying story, 29 May 1869 and 15 June 1869
Song entitled 'Reubadh Na Mara' and accompanying note, nd
Song entitled 'Reubadh Na Mara' beginning 'Hug am bata na caoil oirn, Hò rò hì iù o'. The song is composed of forty lines arranged as six verses of four lines each, five verses of couplets and a chorus. An accompanying note reads 'These may have been composed by a fugitive from battle'.
Song entitled 'Seathain Mac Righ Eirinn', nd
Song entitled 'Seathain Mac Righ Eirinn' beginning ''S mairg a chual e 's nach do dh innis e, Gun robh mo leanna 's am Minginish'. The text is not presented in verses but in seventy six consecutive lines and has been annotated in ink.
Song entitled 'Seathan Mac Ri Builbh', 6 April 1869
Song entitled 'Seathan Mac Ri Builbh' [Seathan Mac Rìgh Beirbh or John, Son of the King of Bergen] beginning 'Lorg an ogain seach an t-ath' collected from Duncan MacDonald [Donnachadh Mac an Tàillear] from Snaosveall [Sniseabhal/Snishival, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. Text has been scored through as if the text has been transcribed elsewhere.