Identifier Number NS031035
Title Neochinnteachd Ar Beatha
Alternative Title
Air
First Line Chorus
First Line Verse ’Pheacaich chaillte gun chùram
Classifications Religious , Spiritual , Instructive
Subjects Sin
Structure Eight line verse
Place Of Origin Nova Scotia
Composer First Name John
Composer Last Name MacLean
Composer Patronymic Bàrd Thighearna Cholla , Am Bàrd MacGilleain , Iain Mac Ailein mhic Iain mhic Theàrlaich mhic Lachainn mhic Dhòmhnuill òig mhic Iain mhic Eobhain mhic Lachainn Fhinn
Composer Dates 1787 - 1848
Composer Gender Male
Community Barney's River
County Pictou
Era Of Poetry 1800 - 1848
Original Format Publication
Singer
Singer Location
Date Recorded
Collector
Collection Title
Collection Location
Collection Number
Publication Title Dàin Spioradail le Iain Mac-Gilleain
Editor Alexander MacLean Sinclair
Publisher MacLachlan & Stewart
Publication Date 1880
Page Number 110
Online Access https://books.google.ca/books?id=aDcNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA171&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=true
Notes 1 Also appears in Dàin Spioradail, (Sìol Enterprise, 2012), 108.
Notes 2 "The first settlers in Pictou County were six families who came from Maryland in 1767. It was in 1773 that the Highlanders from Lochbroom arrived in the ship Hector. "Maighstir Seumas," Dr. McGregor, came in 1786. The first Gaelic-speaking ministers educated in Pictou Academy under Dr. McCulloch were, the Revs. Angus McGillivray, Hugh Ross, and Hugh Dunbar. Mr McGillivray was ordained in 1824, and died in 1869."
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