| Identifier Number | NS030013 |
| Title | Oran a Chruinn-Treabhaich |
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| Air | The Girl I Left Behind Me |
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| First Line Verse | Ann am maduinn chiuin, mun du ghluais an driuc |
| Classifications | Local events and characters , Nature |
| Subjects | Plough |
| Structure | Five line verse |
| Place Of Origin | Nova Scotia |
| Composer First Name | Donald |
| Composer Last Name | MacLellan |
| Composer Patronymic | Dòmhnall Gobha |
| Composer Dates | 1807 - 1890 |
| Composer Gender | Male |
| Community | Grand Mira |
| County | Cape Breton County |
| Era Of Poetry | |
| Original Format | Publication |
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| Collector | Vincent A. McLellan |
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| Publication Title | Fàilte Cheap Breatainn |
| Editor | Vincent A. McLellan |
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| Publication Date | 1891 (1933) |
| Page Number | 25 |
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| Notes 1 | John MacDougall of Broad Cove Banks, who was himself a good poet, came one day to Mr. McLellan's forge, with a plough to be repaired. The blacksmith was at the time engaged in fixing a plough for one McCormach. McDougall said he would compose a satire for the plough that detained him; whereupon the blacksmith said he would compose a song in its praise. |
| Notes 2 | Donald Gobha was born in Glenelg, Morar, Scotland on April 3rd 1807. He emigrated to Nova Scotia with his father in 1819. They settled at the South West River, Margaree. Donald apprenticed as a blacksmith and learned French. He subsequently settled in Strathlorne, Inverness County, where he raised a large family of five sons and four daughters with his wife Mary MacIsaac. He moved to Grand Mira in 1868 and died there in 1890. |
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