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Gaelic Literature
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Eoghainn (20th Century) Eoghainn MacRath belonged to Skeabost in Skye (Tocher 17:10-12). The four stories listed below, which appear
in An Gaidheal Og, have been edited
from recordings in the ____________ Eoghainn
MacRath. ‘Sgialachdan Sgitheanach:
mar thàinig ceòl do na h-Eileanan an Iar’.
An Gaidheal Og, 10 (1958),
3-4. Tale of a poor widow’s son finding
a harp and his mother obtaining the gift of music for him by selling her soul
to a practitioner of the Black Arts. ____________ Eoghainn
MacRath. ‘Sgialachdan Sgitheanach:
mar thàinig Puirt-a-Beul do na h-Eileanan an Iar’. An
Gaidheal Og, 10 (1958), 5. How Binne-Bheul, daughter of the
King of the Land-under-Wave, brought mouth music to the islands and
vanquished a wicked giant. Finishes
with a moral conclusion. ____________ Eoghainn
MacRath. ‘An Gille Calum’ i An
Gaidheal Og, 10 (1958), 7. ii Tocher,
17 (Spring 1975), 10-12. Relates how the dance ‘An Gille
Calum’ was first performed during the period of the Flood and Noah’s ____________ Eoghainn
MacRath. ‘Na Sìthichean’. An
Gaidheal Og, 10 (1958), 10. Tells of the origin of the
fairies; how, having remained neutral during the struggle between the good
and the fallen angels, God adjudged them to be too good for hell and not good
enough for heaven. They were then banished to earth. There is also an explanation of their
eventual disappearance from earth.
Compare with the Rev. Tormod Domhnallach’s
‘Mar a dh’èirich na Sìthichean’ (Gairm,
111/112:276-277). |
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