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Poems

 Subject
Subject Source: Sss
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 195 Collections and/or Records:

Poem beginning 'Cold blow the wind through the chinks in the window', 5 October 1865

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/6
Scope and Contents

Poem [probably written by Alexander Carmichael] beginning 'Cold blow the wind through the chinks in the window' and addressed to a woman named Mary, although it appears that it was originally addressed to someone else possibly 'Jeanie'. The poem is composed of eight lines divided into two stanzas.

Dates: 5 October 1865

Poem beginning 'Di-haoine craobhach', 29 August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/61
Scope and Contents

Poem beginning 'Di-haoine craobhach'.

Dates: 29 August 1883

Poem beginning 'Don[u]l nan ord dalta ghobha', 29 August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/77
Scope and Contents

Poem beginning 'Don[u]l nan ord dalta ghobha', about Dòmhnall nan Òrd [Donald Stewart] probably collected from Donald MacColl, [foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].

Dates: 29 August 1883

Poem beginning 'Dunolla Dunolla dun nam breagaga donna', 1888

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/319
Scope and Contents

Poem beginning 'Dunolla Dunolla dun nam breagaga (sic) donna' collected from Mrs General Frazer.

Dates: 1888

Poem beginning 'Fear a shiul o dheas gu tua', October 1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/51
Scope and Contents

Poem beginning 'Fear a shiu[bha]l o dheas gu tua[th], S cha ro[bh] fios aige co dhiu b' fear'.

Dates: October 1892

Poem beginning 'Gad tha Niall a noc[hd] na thosd', 1885

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/278
Scope and Contents

Poem beginning 'Gad tha Niall a noc[hd] na thosd'.

Dates: 1885

Poem beginning 'Gair nan cath eir tulach shamhna', 29 September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/12
Scope and Contents

Poem beginning 'Gair nan cath eir tulach shamhna' collected from Hector MacLeoid or Eachunn mac Alastair [Hector MacLeod] cottar, Iocar [Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. Carmichael comments 'I don't understand these lines'. Text has been scored through as if to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 29 September 1872

Poem beginning 'Gao an iar thar na Feiste' and accompanying note, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/179
Scope and Contents

Poem beginning 'Gao an iar thar na Feiste, Ceo is uisge' which is described as having been composed by Màiri Nighean Alasdair Ruaidh to the MacDonalds after a meeting at Rodail [Roghadal/Rodel, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] at which the MacLeods and MacDonalds quarrelled. A vocabulary note reads 'Foirich = Pestle'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Poem beginning 'Glean mo shir sa G lia dail' and accompanying story, c1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/71
Scope and Contents

Poem beginning 'Glean mo shir sa G[leann] lia dail, Glean nach eil fianta ri fhaic' [Gleann Liathdail/Glen Liadale, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] and accompanying story which tells how only a MacIosag [MacIsaac] ever dared to visit the glen until this rhyme was composed.

Dates: c1869

Poem beginning 'Is ann air luba na h-abhuinn', 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/342
Scope and Contents

Poem beginning 'Is ann air luba na h-abhuinn' and concluding 'Bha na laidhe gun eiridh Bodach Nam Brigis' [Briogais].

Dates: 1887