Furniture
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Story entitled 'Donl Gorm Sleibhteach' [Dòmhnall Gorm Sleibhteach] and accompanying song
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/140
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Donl Gorm Sleibhteach' [Dòmhnall Gorm Slèibhteach, Donald Gorm MacDonald of Sleat] and accompanying song probably collected in Barraigh/Isle of Barra. The song begins 'Bha mi raoir an tul[lach] re[idh], 'S tha mi in thall a fhein a noc[hd]' and the story tells of how the ghosts of Donald Gorm and his sixteen kinsmen were due to visit Donald Gorm's son, who was a bad man. An old man advised him to turn all the chairs upside down and place pine candles around the table or he...
Dates:
1870 to 1872
Story relating to the shipwreck of the vessel 'Harmony', 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/76
Scope and Contents
Story relating to the shipwreck of the vessel 'Harmony', possibly collected from Roderick MacLellan, receiver of wrecks, Barraigh/Isle of Barra. The story is fragmented but appears to dispute an account put forward by Capt Grey [Captain Thomas Gray] about local people looting the wreck and opinions such as 'The inhabiti[ants] of Lewis like those of other islands immoral' [Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis]. A quote from 'Charles O' Malley, The Irish Dragoon' which precedes a tale about the wreck...
Dates:
1867
Vocabulary note for 'Sasag', November 1873
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/38
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary note which reads 'Sasag = a straw chair like the fourth of a barrel cut out of it.'
Dates:
November 1873