| Identifier Number | NS030008 |
| Title | Oran do Chuairt, " Communn na Measarrachd " am Mabou |
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| First Line Verse | ’S e mheasarachd an cas, air na ghluais a bhuidhinn aluinn |
| Classifications | Local events and characters |
| Subjects | Temperance |
| Structure | Four 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 , Mabou |
| County | Cape Breton County , Inverness County |
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| 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 | 17 |
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| Notes 1 | A certain temperance organisation in Mabou were having a drive one day. The poet met them on the road ad had much difficulty in passing the procession of wagons. This is the reason why the song appears to ridicule such demonstrations of virtue. |
| 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. |
| Notes 3 | [Same tune as 'S Àlainn an t-Àite'? Similar repeated verse lines.] |
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