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Blàr na h-Èipheit

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1972.77.B2

Original Tape ID

SA1972.077

Summary

This song praises the Highland regiments in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars.

With information on the composer, Alasdair MacKinnon. He was born in Morar in 1770, and joined the army aged 24. He died aged 44. The contributor's grandmother sang some of his songs.

Item Notes

Six verses sung.

See:
'The Wiles of the World' (D. Meek, 2003) pp. 298-303, pp. 444-45, p. 478

Item Subject/Person

MacFhionghain, Alasdair

Language

Gaelic

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good