Och nan Och Tha Mi Fo Mhulad
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Summary
A woman's song of homesickness. She is sad and daily her hair grows greyer. She constantly thinks of Lewis with nostalgia and longs for the days of her youth there. She says she will go back there and stay until the end of her days.
Item Notes
Recorded at the National Mòd.
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
Parish - Stornoway
Island - Lewis
Item Location
County - Ross and Cromarty
Island - Lewis
Language
Gaelic
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good