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A Mhic Iain 'ic Sheumais

Fieldworkers
Date May 1954
Track ID 17304
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1954.53.A2

Original Tape ID

SA1954.053

Summary

The waulking song tells how 'mac Iain 'ic Sheumais' [son of John son of James] was wounded in the battle, and how his foster-mother tended to his wounds.

Item Notes

7 lines sung. The lines are sung in linked couplets. This famous waulking song relates to the Battle of Carinish in North Uist in 1601, where Donald MacDonald (Dòmhnall mac Iain 'ic Sheumais) successfully led the MacDonalds against a raiding party of MacLeods.

See:
'Hebridean Folksongs Vol. 3 (John L. Campbell / F. Collinson eds., 1981) p. 94
'Songs Remembered in Exile (John L. Campbell ed., 1990) Song 8
'Songs of Gaelic Scotland' (Anne Lorne Gillies ed., 2005) p. 129
'Òrain-luaidh Màiri Nighean Alasdair' (K. C. Craig ed., 1949)
'The MacDonald Collection of Gaelic Poetry' (Revs. A. and A. MacDonald eds., 1911) p. 31
'An t-Òranaiche' (Gilleasbaig Mac na Ceàrdadh ed., 1879) p. 131

Item Subject/Person

Dòmhnall mac Iain 'ic Sheumais; MacDonald, Donald

Recording Location

County - Midlothian

Parish - Edinburgh

Village/Place - Edinburgh

Item Location

County - Inverness-shire

Parish - North Uist

Island - North Uist

Village/Place - Carinish

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good