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Och nan Och Tha Mi Fo Mhulad

Date June 1964
Track ID 58790
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1964.36.A9

Original Tape ID

SA1964.036

Summary

An emigrant's song of great nostalgia and homesickness. The girl in the song finds the emigrant experience very difficult but resigns herself to enduring it for the time being. She looks forward to the day she can return to Lewis and remain there for the rest of her life.

Item Notes

3 verses and refrain.
Composed by Mary MacIver. The song is known in Lewis as 'Òran Màiri Dhall'. She was a Mary MacIver from Valtos in Uig, Lewis, although born on Pabay, and was but a year old when the island was cleared, therefore referred to as Bliadhnach Phabaigh. She emigrated to America but was so unhappy with homesickness that she eventually returned home just before the First World War. She remained in Lewis, where she died in 1920.

See
'Eilean Fraoich' (Comunn Gàidhealach Leòdhais eds., 1982) p. 6

Recording Location

County - Ross and Cromarty

Island - Lewis

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good