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:
Miscellaneous Gaelic verse and correspondence., 1762-1825 and undated
File
Identifier: MS.14857
Scope and Contents
A folder of loose sheets of various sizes, written in various hands, and mostly undated. 45 folios. The names of the scribes are identified where possible. The contents are:[Black Prince]. Poem entitled on docket "Black Prince", beginning ''N cuala tu Sheamais ruaig aite / Nan Uaislin achduineach armach'. At the head is written: 'S fad 's gairrid a rithis am Buinsgeal. Large single sheet, paper date 1825, folded lengthwise into a bifolium. See also the following two items....
Dates:
1762-1825 and undated
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.
Volume of Gaelic songs in the hand of Dugald MacNicol, son of Rev. Donald MacNicol., ca. 1816
Item
Identifier: Acc.2152/4
Scope and Contents
Notebook in octavo format in marbled cardboard covers, wanting the front cover. In the hand of Dugald MacNicol, with some of the songs possibly his own compositions. Length marks, where present, are written as horizontal lines. Paginated 1-6, 6-51 by the scribe, followed by a number of loose leaves, possibly missing some. Containing a collection of Gaelic songs, some of which are dated 1810, 1811 and 1816 respectively. Including four songs ascribed to Seumas Mac...
Dates:
ca. 1816