Identifier Number NS034055
Title Òran do Shir Iain MacGilleain
Alternative Title
Air
First Line Chorus
First Line Verse Gu’n d’ fhuair mi sgeul ’s cha ’n àicheidh mi
Classifications Praise
Subjects John MacLean
Structure Eight line verse
Place Of Origin Scotland
Composer First Name Mairead
Composer Last Name MacDonald
Composer Patronymic Mairearad nighean Lachainn mhic Iain mhic Lachainn
Composer Dates
Composer Gender Female
Community Mull , Scotland
County
Era Of Poetry
Original Format Publication
Singer
Singer Location
Date Recorded
Collector Doctor MacLean
Collection Title
Collection Location
Collection Number
Publication Title Clàrsach na Coille
Editor Alexander MacLean Sinclair
Publisher Archibald Sinclair
Publication Date 1881
Page Number 204
Online Access https://dasg.ac.uk/corpus/textmeta.php?text=222&uT=y
Notes 1 "Mairearad nighean Lachainn mhic Iain mhic Lachainn, was a Macdonald. She was born in Mull and lived there. Her mother was a Maclean. She was married and had a large family. All her children died before herself. She lived to an extreme old age. She nursed several of the Macleans of Duart. She composed a great many songs. A few of them are published in Turner’s collection. She is not inferior to any of the Highland poetesses. I have seven of her songs."
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