Identifier Number NS015019
Title Òran do Thòmas Caimbeul
Alternative Title
Air Ged tha mi gun Chrodh gun Aighean
First Line Chorus Ged tha mi gun chrodh gun aighean
First Line Verse 'S e mo cheist air an òigear
Classifications Praise , Local events and characters
Subjects Man
Structure Four line verse / Four line chorus
Place Of Origin Nova Scotia
Composer First Name Catherine
Composer Last Name Patterson
Composer Patronymic Catrìona nighean Ailein Chaluim Pìobaire
Composer Dates 1872 - 1964
Composer Gender Female
Community Benacadie Glen , Hunter's Mountain
County Cape Breton , Victoria
Era Of Poetry
Original Format Publication
Singer Katie MacNeil Patterson
Singer Location Benacadie Glen
Date Recorded
Collector Peter MacLean
Collection Title
Collection Location
Collection Number
Publication Title Guthan Prìseil: Guthan agus Òrain Gàidheil Cheap Breatainn
Editor Anne Landin
Publisher Centre for Cape Breton Studies
Publication Date 2009
Page Number 123
Online Access
Notes 1 This song is about Tommy Campbell, a Gaelic singer from Hunter's Mountain who worked in the saw mill/lumber camp in Rear Christmas Island in the 1920s and is lamenting his departure upon the closure of the mill.
Notes 2 Many young men who worked in the lumber camp would visit the houses of locals for a meal and to sing Gaelic songs.
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