Poetry.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Further Gaelic manuscripts from the Irvine-Robertson collection.
A small group of manuscripts that were formerly part of Acc.3184 (now MSS.14877-14881), to be merged with that collection in due course.
The manuscripts were brought together by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine (1773-1824), minister of Fortingall and then Little Dunkeld, Gaelic scholar and collector of Gaelic verse. They comprise correspondence in English, sermons in Gaelic, and Gaelic poetry collected by Irvine.
Gaelic songs from the song collection of Rev. Dr Alexander Irvine., ca. 1800
Notebook containing poems mostly by Rob Donn Mackay, taken down by Rev. Dr Alexander Irvine from the recitation of the poet's daughter Janet., 1800
Papers and Gaelic collections of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine, minister of Little Dunkeld.
Papers of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine of Little Dunkeld (1773-1824), consisting mainly of Gaelic poetry collected in Perthshire, and partly elsewhere, between ca. 1797 and 1808.
Papers of the Irvine Robertson family, the Rev. Alexander Irvine, and the Stewart families of Garth, Kynachan and Drumcharry, with associated papers.
Includes legal documents, correspondence, financial papers, Scottish travel journals, sermons and poetry. The correspondence is particularly of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine, minister of Little Dunkeld, and Col. David Stewart of Garth. Includes several items in Scottish Gaelic.