Identifier Number NS010040
Title Moladh an Eich Ghlais
Alternative Title
Air "Seo ’n aimsir ’s an dearbhar”
First Line Chorus
First Line Verse Aig Aonghus mac Sheumais
Classifications Praise
Subjects Horse
Structure Eight line verse
Place Of Origin Nova Scotia
Composer First Name Alexander
Composer Last Name MacLean Sinclair
Composer Patronymic
Composer Dates 1840 - 1924
Composer Gender Male
Community
County Antigonish
Era Of Poetry Pre 1862
Original Format Publication
Singer
Singer Location
Date Recorded
Collector
Collection Title
Collection Location
Collection Number
Publication Title The Gaelic Bards of Antigonish
Editor Trueman Matheson
Publisher Sìol Cultural Enterprises
Publication Date 2014
Page Number 136
Online Access
Notes 1 Filidh na Coille, by the Rev. A. Maclean Sinclair, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 1901, page 146.
Notes 2 The [following] song was composed by the author of it when a youth going to college. It was written as a means of thanking the owner of the horse for having kindly given him to the writer to go from Lochaber to Sherbrooke, a distance of about twenty-four miles.
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