Identifier Number NS016014
Title Bha Mise 'N Raoir Air An Àirigh
Alternative Title
Air
First Line Chorus Hù hoireann ó, hù hoireann ó
First Line Verse Bha mise 'n raoir air an àirigh
Classifications Work , Milling
Subjects Sexual Assault , Shieling
Structure Split chorus / Woven
Place Of Origin Scotland
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Original Format Publication
Singer Catherine 'Katie' Patterson (née MacNeil)
Singer Location Benacadie (Barra tradition)
Date Recorded 06-10-1937
Collector John Lorne Campbell
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Collection Location Canna House / School of Scottish Studies
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Publication Title Songs Remembered in Exile
Editor John Lorne Campbell
Publisher Aberdeen University Press
Publication Date 1990
Page Number 120-122
Online Access
Notes 1 Mrs. Patterson: 'Catrìona nighean Ailein Chaluim Pìobaire' (1872-1964). Listen to tracks by her under person ID 5441 on Tobar an Dualchis. There is a bio on the website for the MacEdward Leach Collection: https://www.mun.ca/folklore/leach/singers/dpatterson.htm
Notes 2 See also: Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia, p. 130; Hebridean Folksongs II, p. 54-9; KCC, p. 24; Calum Johnston, Barra notebook, p. 10, 26.
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