Peninsular War | 1807-1814
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Song entitled 'Donl Gorm' and accompanying story about Cailleach Corunna, 29 May 1869 and 15 June 1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/68
Scope and Contents
Song entitled Donl Gorm [Dòmhnall Gorm] collected from Mary Ferguson, Cairinis/Carinish, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist beginning 'Naille bho i, Ar liom gra hi naile bho i'. The song is composed of fifty-two lines and is noted as being composed by Domhnall Gorm's 'Muim altrom' or nurse. Mary states that she heard the song from her mother who had 'a large number of songs and lays of gr[ea]t antiquity' and who was known as 'Cailleach Corunna' on account of her many stories relating to Coruna [A...
Dates:
29 May 1869 and 15 June 1869
Verse 'Duntain chan Barra Glas' and accompanying note, October 1892
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/48
Scope and Contents
Verse beginning 'Duntain chan Barra Glas Barr-an-Eas, Am Scuil and all the rest' [Duntanachan, Barra Glas, An Sgurr, Earra GhĂ idheal/Argyllshire] and accompanying note which states that a lady in a town beseiged in the Peninsular War was reported to have said this [when] she put her head over a window.
Dates:
October 1892