Identifier Number NS010075
Title Cumha do’n Easbuig MhicFhionghuin
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Air
First Line Chorus
First Line Verse ’S ioma sùil a tha silteach
Classifications Lament
Subjects Bishop , Death
Structure No structure
Place Of Origin Nova Scotia
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County Antigonish
Era Of Poetry
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Singer
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Publication Title The Gaelic Bards of Antigonish
Editor Trueman Matheson
Publisher Sìol Cultural Enterprises
Publication Date 2014
Page Number 230
Online Access
Notes 1 From: History of Antigonish, Vol. 1, by Rev. Ronald MacGillivray, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, 19 page 65; page 53 Vol. 2 – attributes to S.A.)
Notes 2 The following fragment of a lament to Bishop Fraser is quoted by the Sagairt Arasaig. who attributes it to “the bard.” Charles MacGillivray suggests it may have been the Sagairt Arasaig himself who penned the poem. Bishop MacKinnon was bishop of the Diocese of Arichat.
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