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Found in 203 Collections and/or Records:

Story under the heading 'Roin' about MacIogain and accompanying verse, 7 October 1875

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/30
Scope and Contents Story under the heading 'Roin' probably collected from John MacInnes, Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. telling how a man came from Taisgeir or Hasgeir [Eilean Hasgeir/Haskeir Island] to a wild island and knocked at the door of a big, grey old man. On being asked where he was from and who his family were he responded that he was from the north and his people were Mac Iogain to which the old man recited a verse beginning 'Iogain ga do thug mi bithe dhuit, Im is cais[e]...
Dates: 7 October 1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story under the headings 'Roin' and 'Mythology' about seals, 7 October 1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/29
Scope and Contents Story under the headings 'Roin' and 'Mythology' about seals collected from Iain Macaonais [John MacInnes], Staola-gearrai [Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] on 29 January 1875. The story tells of a farmer who could not work out who was eating his corn so he went to the bottom of his kiln and saw that a big seal and a small seal were the culprits. The seals are eating when the little one says that it can hear a noise but the big seal dismisses it as as the sound of a...
Dates: 7 October 1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

"The Kind of Poetry I Want", 1961

 File
Identifier: Coll-2124/2/1
Scope and Contents

1. Original manuscript of "The Kind of Poetry I Want", 49 ff., pen, no date. Also includes the correspondence dated 1961 of bookseller Kulgin D. Duval with printer Giovanni Mardersteig from the Officina Bodoni, Verona, and R. H. Boothroyd, from the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, concerning the printing of the text.


2. "The Kind of Poetry I Want", extracts, 18 ff., pen, pencil, and typescript.

Dates: 1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Literary Papers of Hugh MacDiarmid collected by Kulgin D. Duval / Poems

"The Stone of the Dog, in Glen Lyon", "The Terms", and "The Wild Swan", undated

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Identifier: Coll-2124/2/4
Scope and Contents

1. "The Stone of the Dog, in Glen Lyon", manuscript, pen, 1p.


2. "The Terns", manuscript, pen, 1p.


3. "The Wild Swan", manuscript, pen, 1p.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Literary Papers of Hugh MacDiarmid collected by Kulgin D. Duval / Poems

'[The story of] Rob Donn', 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-98/3/3/8
Scope and Contents

A script or draft article about the Scottish Gaelic poet from Sutherland, Rob Donn. Included with the notebook is a journal extract about Rob Donn, published on 20 June 1878, though there are no notes to indicate in which journal the article was published. The article is folded, and kept with the notebook by means of a modern paperclip.

Dates: 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Mackinnon's own notes and research material / History and society

Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1860 to c1866

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112
Scope and Contents Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The majority of the volume has been used but intermittently there are groups of blank folios. Carmichael appears to have written in the book in the 1860s creating sections of different genres at different stages in the volume, with pages left blank in between to fill up appropriately. In about 1875 he has then used some of these blank pages to transcribe notes and stories but has not kept to the genres sections he initially created....
Dates: 1860 to c1866
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1883 to 1885

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87
Scope and Contents Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing material collected between October 1867 and December 1885. The material dated from 1883 to 1885 was probably written down at source. The notebook is marked as 'No IV' and the inside cover gives his address as 30 Royal Circus, Edinburgh [Dun Eideann] and the date as 16 November 1883. The material transcribed and collected in this notebook includes love songs, religious songs, waulking songs and songs relating to cattle. Much...
Dates: 1883 to 1885
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1869

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW104
Scope and Contents Transciption notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The inside front cover is inscribed in ink with 'Bought at Wadebridge Cornwall Dec[ember] 1 1864 p 1/6 A A Carmichael' and the opposite page has 'A A Carmichael' written on it in pencil. The notebook contains Fenian songs or tales mainly collected in Uibhist a Deas/South Uist and Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, some of which are repeated in full or in part. These include 'Laoidh na Muileartaich', 'Duan an Deirg' and 'A' Bhraoin Chaorain'....
Dates: 1864-1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Twenty six verses of Fenian poetry beginning 'Dearamad fhagha s an Iuthraich/Iuraich gun do rinn Fionn' and accompanying note, 6 October 1865

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/10
Scope and Contents

Twenty six verses of Fenian poetry beginning 'Dearamad fhagha s an Iuthraich/Iuraich gun do rinn Fionn' probably collected from Eachan MacIsaig [Hector MacIsaac] Ceannlangabhat, [Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist], who, the note states, 'Learnt this from Ruairi Rua ceistir sa cheanna Tuath (Donallach) more than 50 years' [Roderick MacQuien, catechist]. The verses amount to one hundred and two lines.

Dates: 6 October 1865
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Two copies of poem entitled "Much Finer Than The Past", 1948

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Identifier: Coll-1581/3/3/3
Scope and Contents

This file contains two typescript copies of a poem entitled "Much Finer Than The Past". The poem has references to the "Varsity Vanities" production of 1948.

Dates: 1948
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Archive of productions of Varsity Vanities and various dramatic groups / "Document Store" containing duplicates and material related to the Varsity Vanities / Varsity Vanities of 1948