Poems
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Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 195 Collections and/or Records:
Poem beginning 'Shiub[hail] Muile leat us Ile', 14 August 1883
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/2
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Poem beginning 'Shiub[hail] Muile leat us Ile' collected from Rev [] MacGregor, Lismore [Lios Mòr].
Dates:
14 August 1883
Poem beginning 'Tha coig coigeamh an Eirinn', c1892
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/96
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Poem beginning 'Tha coig coigeamh an Eirinn, Us coig coigeamh an Strath Eirinn' [Ireland, Srath Èireann/Strathearn, Siorrachd Pheairt/Perthshire]. The poem is composed of four lines.
Dates:
c1892
Poem beginning 'The withered elm again may flourish', 23 June 1885
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/283
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Poem beginning 'The withered elm again may flourish'.
Dates:
23 June 1885
Poem beginning 'Think truly and thy thoughts', 13 May 1893
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/2
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Poem [entitled 'Be True'] beginning 'Think truly and thy thoughts, Shall the world's fame feed' by [Horatius] Bonar.
Dates:
13 May 1893
Poem entitled 'A Mhuillearstach' and accompanying notes, 20 October 1871
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW119/33
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Poem entitled 'A Mhuillearstach' collected from Donald Maclellan or Donl mac Iain bhain ic Neil, aged 84 years S[outh] Hacleit, Benbecula, S[out] Uist [Haclait/Hacklet, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning ''S la dha'n Fheinn eir Tullach Eirinn, 'S i g amharc Eirinn ma timicheall'. The song is composed of two hundred and four lines, two of which have been written in pencil transversely, probably after the whole text had been written. A preamble to the story is...
Dates:
20 October 1871
Poem entitled 'Aoir Nan Rodan' and accompanying story, 14 September 1885
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/34
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Poem entitled 'Aoir Nan Rodan' and accompanying story collected from Mr Kenneth MacLean, merchant, Lochmaddy [Loch nam Madadh, Uibhist a Tuath] beginning 'Aonais nan robh oirnne fregair'. The story tells how John MacLean [Iain mac Eachain], innkeeper, Lochmaddy sent for Donll Mac Eoin [Donald MacLean], Carnaish [Cairinis/Carinish] and another bard Aonas [Angus] to get rid of his rats 'which were like to destroy every thing'. The bards requested a drink first ['giarachadh teanga'] but were...
Dates:
14 September 1885
Poem entitled 'Briara Fhinn ri Oscar', 22 March 1867
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/15
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Poem entitled 'Briara Fhinn ri Oscar' collected from Do'ul mac an t-Shaoir Do'ul mac Dhouil ic Thearlaich [Donald MacIntyre], catechist, Aird, Beinn na faothla Uist deas [Àird, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning 'A mhic mo mhic se thui[r]t an righ, Oscar a righ nan og fhlath'. The poem is composed of twenty six lines. MacIntyre states that he 'Heard this 60 years ago from an old man John Mac Aonais (Iain og mac Fhionlai) [John MacInnes] an Smearcleit Uist D[eas]...
Dates:
22 March 1867
Poem entitled 'Clann An Lir' and accompanying story, 4 April 1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/12
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Poem entitled 'Clann An Lir' [Children of Lir] collected from Hector Maciosaig, Eachann mac Ruarai [Hector MacIsaac], Ceannlangabhat, Iocar, South Uist [Iochdar, Uibhist a Deas] and accompanying story which explains that the verse was said to the gravedigger when he was digging the grave of the Children of Lir in Larne, Ireland and explains the enchantment under which the children were put. Additions have been made to the text in pencil and ink.
Dates:
4 April 1872
Poem entitled 'Comhairle A Aoide do Mhac an Toisich', 25 May 1865
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/20
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Poem entitled 'Comhairle A Aoide do Mhac an Toisich' collected from Coinneach Mac Calaman [Kenneth Murchison] Lochcarnan at Uisgebha, Uist [Loch a' Charnain/Loch Carnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Uisgeabhagh/Uiskevagh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula]. The poem is a list of advice on how to live a good life given by Mac an Toisich to Aoide, in a manner similar to a list of proverbs. Aoide asks Mac an Toisich if he followed the advice to which the answer is no but that if he had the advice he...
Dates:
25 May 1865
Poem entitled 'Comhairle Aoide do Mhac-an-Toisich', c1875
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/51
Scope and Contents
Poem entitled 'Comhairle Aoide do Mhac-an-Toisich' collected from Coinneach Mac Calman or Murchison [Kenneth MacCalman or Murchison], Lochcarron, on 25 May 1865 at Uisge-bhagh [Loch Ros is Cromba and Uisgebhagh/Uiskevagh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula]. The poem is a list of advice on how to live a good life given by Mac an Toisich to Aoide, in a manner similar to a list of proverbs. Aoide asks Mac an Toisich if he followed the advice to which the answer is no but that if he had the advice he...
Dates:
c1875