Identifier Number NS009018
Title Cumha d’ a Mhnaoi
Alternative Title
Air Of a’ the airts the wind can blaw
First Line Chorus
First Line Verse A shaoghail, ’s cruaidh leam bhuin do ghruaim
Classifications Lament
Subjects Loss , Death
Structure Eight line verse
Place Of Origin Nova Scotia
Composer First Name Alexander
Composer Last Name MacDonald
Composer Patronymic Alasdair mac Ailein 'ic Iain 'ic Ruaraidh 'ic Iain 'ic Iain 'ic Ruaraidh , Alasdair Ailein Mhór , Bàrd na Ceapaich
Composer Dates 1820 - 1904
Composer Gender Male
Community Keppoch
County Antigonish
Era Of Poetry 1880
Original Format Publication
Singer
Singer Location
Date Recorded
Collector
Collection Title
Collection Location
Collection Number
Publication Title O Cheapaich nan Craobh
Editor Trueman Matheson
Publisher Sìol Cultural Enterprises
Publication Date 2008
Page Number 90
Online Access
Notes 1 From: The Gaelic Bards – from 1825-1875 by the Rev. A. Maclean Sinclair, Sydney, Nova Scotia, 1904, page 115
Notes 2 The song appears in Mac-Talla, Vol. 12, No. 11 (1903)
Notes 3 The song and tune were also published in Fad air Falbh as Innse Gall – Beyond the Hebrides by Donald A. Fergusson, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1977, page 298
Notes 4
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