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Och nan Och Tha Mi Fo Mhulad

Date 1989
Track ID 92796
Part 1

Track Information

Original Tape ID

MOD 1989 005 GR00447

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

Song

Collection

BBC

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good