Poetry.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms. (AAT) All poetry, except ballads, was indexed under this heading in the published catalogues. (NLS) .
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Booklet containing Gaelic songs, including a version of 'Là a' siubhal slèibhe dhomh' by Lachlann Mac Theàrlaich Òig., second half of the 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Acc.2152/10
Scope and Contents
A small unbound octavo booklet, 16 leaves. Undated. In the hand of Rev. Donald MacNicol. The first page contains a contents list of titles, and is signed 'Donald McNicol' at the bottom.
Contains a collection of 9 songs in Gaelic. Listed in Mackechnie, Catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts', vol. 1 page 329.
Dates:
second half of the 18th century.
Ossianic verse and poetry of Duncan Riach MacNicol and Lachlann Mac Theàrlaich Òig., 1762-1766
Item
Identifier: MS.14855
Scope and Contents
A small booklet of 10 folios, measuring 15.2 x 9.3. x 0.2 cm. It is dated 1766 on the first page, and 1762-3 at the head of folio 4r. In the hand of Rev. Donald MacNicol, and signed on folio 10v: Donald McNicol. Containing Ossianic verse, which is printed in 'Leabhar na Feinne', and more contemporary poetry. Formerly Acc.2152/23. The contents are as follows:"An Invinn", beginning 'Ossain uasail mhic Finn'. 24 numbered stanzas of 4 lines, and an additional stanza at the foot of...
Dates:
1762-1766
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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The MacNicol collection, comprising Gaelic songs and other papers collected by the Reverend Donald MacNicol, minister of Lismore, and his son Dugald MacNicol, with some added papers and listings of later owners and users of the collection.
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Gaelic songs and verse.