Skye Gaelic poetry and song collections: Johan MacInnes

Gaelic Literature of the Isle of Skye: an annotated bibliography

Traditional poetry and song: collectors and collections

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MACINNES, Johan (20th Century)

Johan MacInnes belonged to Breakish in Skye. She won first prize for a compilation of unpublished Gaelic vocal music at the 1927 Mod. The songs listed below are from her collection. The tunes are given in tonic sol-fa notation.

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An Gaidheal, 23 (1927-1928).

i ‘Rachainn ‘n ad chòmhail’, p. 37

Eleven verse-couplets and the refrain ‘A dh’aindeoin co theireadh e, Rachainn ‘nad chòmhail…’.

ii ‘Cruinneag na buaile’, p. 58.

Five quatrains and a refrain beginning ‘O chruinneag ‘s tu chruinneag’.

iii ‘Dh’ fhalbh mo rùn air an aiseag’, p. 69.

Nine verse-couplets and a refrain. For another version of this song, see the Calum I. MacLean Collection.

iv ‘Dh’ fhalbh mo rùn bho na chala’, p. 93.

Six verse-couplets and a refrain.

v ‘An t-Og uasal’, p. 105.

There is some striking imagery in this song for an absent lover, where the girl wishes she were his gun and his dagger. A vocable refrain and nine verse-couplets beginning with ‘Faca sibh an t-òg uasal’.

vi ‘Cha dìrich mi ‘n gleannan’, p. 136.

Seven verse-couplets and a refrain beginning with ‘Horionn ò, Gu dé ni mi’.