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Och nan Och Tha Mi Fo Mhulad

Date 1976
Track ID 86520
Part 1

Track Information

Original Tape ID

MOD 1976 GR00705 Reel1

Summary

A song of nostalgia and homesickness by a woman who emigrated to America. She remembers scenes of her youth.

Item Notes

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 - Aberdeenshire

Parish - Aberdeen

Village/Place - Aberdeen

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

BBC

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good