Macintyre, Donnchadh Bàn, poet, 1724-1812
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1724 - 1812
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Booklet containing a version of "Òran an t-Samhraidh" by Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre. , ca. 1760s
Item
Identifier: Acc.2152/39
Scope and Contents
Oblong booklet made up of 8 leaves, partly conjugate. Unbound. Formerly stitched, but the thread now lost. The scribe has not yet been identified.
Contains a song of Donnchadh Bàn, headed here "Moladh an tSamhradh", beginning 'A nuair thig an samhradh geagach orn'.
Described in Mackechnie, 'Catalogue of Gaelic Manuscripts', vol. 1, p. 336.
Dates:
ca. 1760s
Booklet containing a version of "Oran Iain Faochag" by Donnchadh Ban Macintyre, headed here "Oran Bhuilc"., second half of the 18th century
Item
Identifier: Acc.2152/38
Scope and Contents
An unbound, unstitched quarto-sized booklet, 4 leaves, in a hand similar to that of Rev. Donald MacNicol. It contains a version of Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre's song "Òran Iain Faochag", headed here "Oran Bhuilc". A different hand, probably that of Dugald MacNicol, adds "by Mc Intyre". Begins 'Ma Eoin Bhuilc an drast an Sasgun / Smor a mhasladh is a mhichliu". 19 stanzas of 8 lines. The tune is given on the verso of the last leaf: "Air fonn Orain an Riogh". The song was...
Dates:
second half of the 18th century
Choir arrangement of the song 'A Mhàiri bhàn òg, 's tu 'n òigh th' air m' àire' by Donnchadh Bàn Mac-an-t-Saoir., undated; ca. 1980
Item
Identifier: Acc.13695/77
Scope and Contents
A choir arrangement for four voices by an unidentified arranger. Comprises 50 bars. Previous arrangements for four voices can be found in 'A' Choisir-Chiùil' (London & Glasgow, 1900), 53, arranged by Archibald Ferguson, and in 'Coisir a' Mhòid' I, 1896-1910 (Paisley, [1912]), 4, arranged by W.H. Murray. 5 sheets.
Dates:
undated; ca. 1980
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.
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