Identifier Number NS0231320
Title Marbhann
Alternative Title
Air
First Line Chorus
First Line Verse Och! mo dhiobhail is m’ éire!
Classifications Elegy , Religious
Subjects Donnchadh Bàn Ceistear
Structure Eight line verse
Place Of Origin Nova Scotia
Composer First Name Eighrig
Composer Last Name Nic Leòid
Composer Patronymic
Composer Dates d. 1888
Composer Gender Female
Community St. Anns , Boularderie , An Eilean Mhór
County Inverness , Cape Breton
Era Of Poetry 19th century
Original Format Publication
Singer
Singer Location
Date Recorded
Collector
Collection Title
Collection Location
Collection Number Vol. 12. No. 24
Publication Title Mac-Talla
Editor Jonathan G. MacKinnon
Publisher Jonathan G. MacKinnon
Publication Date 27 March 1904
Page Number 7
Online Access https://dasg.ac.uk/LIL/mactalla/12/24/7
Notes 1 Sent to Mac-Talla by "IAIN ALASDAIR MAC COINNICH"
Notes 2 "Chaidh am marbhrann so ’dheanamh bho chionn leth-cheud bliadhna. ’S e so na tha air sgial agam dheth, ged bha coig rannan deug air fhichead ann bho thùs. Seachad air an t-ochdamh rann cha ’n ’eil iad anns an òrdan ’san d’ rinneadh iad an toiseach. Sgriobh Mr. Aonghas Domhnullach bho ’n Amhainn a Tuath e corr is da fhichead bliadhna air ais, agus mar an ceudna thug aon dhe na h-eilthirich do New Zealand leis am marbhrann air a sgriobhadh. Dh’ fhaodadh gu bheil tuilleadh rannan aig cuideiginn eile agus ma tha bhithinn glé thoilichte fhaighinn troimh’n MHAC-TALLA. Bha Eighrig Nic Leoid a fuireach aig an Amhainn a Tuath, St. Ann’s, far an do chaochail i ’sa bhliadhna 1888."
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