Identifier Number NS023822
Title Oran
Alternative Title Chaidh moill air mo léirsinn
Air
First Line Chorus Cha ’n e direadh a bhruthaich
First Line Verse No teas mor ri la greine
Classifications Exile , Local events and characters
Subjects Fearchar mac Iain Òig , Wife , Factor
Structure Woven
Place Of Origin Scotland
Composer First Name Fearchair
Composer Last Name Mac Ràth
Composer Patronymic Fearchair mac Iain Òig
Composer Dates
Composer Gender Male
Community Kintyre
County
Era Of Poetry 17th century
Original Format Publication
Singer
Singer Location
Date Recorded
Collector
Collection Title
Collection Location
Collection Number Vol. 9. No. 1
Publication Title Mac-Talla
Editor Jonathan G. MacKinnon
Publisher Jonathan G. MacKinnon
Publication Date 6 July 1900
Page Number 7
Online Access https://dasg.ac.uk/LIL/mactalla/9/1/7
Notes 1 See Anne Lorne Gillis, Songs of Gaelic Scotland (Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 2010), 226.
Notes 2 "Bhuineadh Fearchair Mac-Rath, Fearchair Mac Iain Oig, do Chinntail. Thug maor-fuinn Mhic-Coinnich bò agus coire copair air falbh bhuaithe. Bha bean Fhearchair—“Nighean Dhonnachaidh”—a gearan air droch obair a mhaoir. Chaidh Fearchair na ’dhéidh, agus loisg e air ’s mharbh e e. B’ fheudar do dh-Fhearchair an sin teicheadh."
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