Identifier Number NS030019
Title Beannachadh Luinge
Alternative Title
Air
First Line Chorus
First Line Verse Gu m beannaiche Dia long mo charaide
Classifications Rann / Duan , Religious
Subjects Sailor
Structure
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
Singer
Singer Location
Date Recorded
Collector Vincent A. McLellan
Collection Title
Collection Location
Collection Number
Publication Title Fàilte Cheap Breatainn
Editor Vincent A. McLellan
Publisher
Publication Date 1891 (1933)
Page Number 35
Online Access
Notes 1 A certain man in Broad Cove, Inverness, one time conceived the idea of building a vessel. He had been for some time going to sea and was very fond of boasting what he would do when his new vessel was finished. But the vessel was never finished. The poet saw it after it had reached a state of hopeless decay and composed the rhyme which follows.
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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