Identifier Number NS025010
Title Fein-Labhairt An t-Seann Duine
Alternative Title
Air
First Line Chorus Air faillirinn illirinn uillirinn o ho ro hi
First Line Verse Nuair a bha mi ’nam oige
Classifications Complaint , Lament
Subjects Old Age
Structure One line verse
Place Of Origin Nova Scotia
Composer First Name Malcolm
Composer Last Name Gillis
Composer Patronymic Calum Mac Gill-Iosa , Calum Eoghain 'ic Aonghais 'ic Caluim 'ic Dhòmhnaill 'ic Dhonnchaidh
Composer Dates 1856 - 1929
Composer Gender Male
Community South West Margaree
County Inverness
Era Of Poetry
Original Format Publication
Singer
Singer Location
Date Recorded
Collector
Collection Title
Collection Location
Collection Number Vol. 1 , No. 1
Publication Title Mosgladh
Editor
Publisher Scottish Gaelic Society , Sydney, Nova Scotia
Publication Date February 1928
Page Number 6
Online Access https://novascotia.ca/archives/newspapers/archives.asp?ID=3407&Page=201207655&Language=
Notes 1 "This song won first prize in the contest for original composition at the Glace Bay Mod, 1927."
Notes 2 There is a correction in the following issue of Mosgladh (Vol 1, No. 2 - p. 4) noting that the first line of the seventh stanza was omitted in the original printing; and providing the corrected seventh verse there.
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