Identifier Number NS010004
Title An Dubh-Luideach
Alternative Title
Air
First Line Chorus
First Line Verse ’N cuala sibh mun bhargain
Classifications Humorous , Local events and characters
Subjects Boat
Structure Twenty-two line verse
Place Of Origin Nova Scotia
Composer First Name John
Composer Last Name MacGillivray
Composer Patronymic Iain am Pìobaire
Composer Dates 1774 - 1848
Composer Gender Male
Community Malignant Brook
County Antigonish
Era Of Poetry Pre 1848
Original Format Publication
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Date Recorded
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Publication Title The Gaelic Bards of Antigonish
Editor Trueman Matheson
Publisher Sìol Cultural Enterprises
Publication Date 2014
Page Number 14
Online Access
Notes 1 From: The Casket, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Vol. 70, No. 25 (June 22, 1922), page 6. See also the version in Clàrsach na Coille, by the Rev. A. Maclean Sinclair, Glasgow, Scotland, 1881, page 317. The introduction to the song is from Rev. A. Maclean Sinclair.
Notes 2 ‘Moipein’ and ‘Brusg’ were two little pigs.
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