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INTRODUCTION
John MacKenzie has^beea the only^ditor of Ross's
Songs hitherto. He issued three editions. It will
be convenient to call these A, B, C and this, the
1937 edition, D.
The first edition A, bears on its title-page : —
Orain Ghae'lach le Uilleam Ross, air an sgriobhadh,
agus air an co'-chruinneachadh ri cheile le Iain Mac-
choinnich ann an Inbheiriue.
" 'S dubhach mi gun iolach shòlais
Ach tùrsa bròin a' sior eigheachd
A chruit chiuil is binne mire
Cha duisg mo chridhe gu h-eibhneas ;
Cha chluinn mi tuille do chòradh,
Bu bhinne na ceòl na'n teudan,
Na smeorach 'san ghleannan fhàsaich,
'S na cuthag air bharr na geige ! "
Inverness : printed by R. Carruthers, for Lewis
Grant, and D. Macculloch, Booksellers, 1830.
1 (The Life of William Ross concludes : John
Mackenzie, Gairloch, May 30, 1830.)
An clar-innseadh, with the page, Taobh-dhuilleag,
is printed on the recto of an unpaged leaf at the end
of the book.
1 I n 1833^ J. M- left his native parish, and in the same
year appeared The Poems of William Ross the Gairloch Bard.
. . . Within the year a second edition of Ross's poems was
called for. — Dixon's Gairloch, p.- 189-190.
ix
INTRODUCTION
John MacKenzie has^beea the only^ditor of Ross's
Songs hitherto. He issued three editions. It will
be convenient to call these A, B, C and this, the
1937 edition, D.
The first edition A, bears on its title-page : —
Orain Ghae'lach le Uilleam Ross, air an sgriobhadh,
agus air an co'-chruinneachadh ri cheile le Iain Mac-
choinnich ann an Inbheiriue.
" 'S dubhach mi gun iolach shòlais
Ach tùrsa bròin a' sior eigheachd
A chruit chiuil is binne mire
Cha duisg mo chridhe gu h-eibhneas ;
Cha chluinn mi tuille do chòradh,
Bu bhinne na ceòl na'n teudan,
Na smeorach 'san ghleannan fhàsaich,
'S na cuthag air bharr na geige ! "
Inverness : printed by R. Carruthers, for Lewis
Grant, and D. Macculloch, Booksellers, 1830.
1 (The Life of William Ross concludes : John
Mackenzie, Gairloch, May 30, 1830.)
An clar-innseadh, with the page, Taobh-dhuilleag,
is printed on the recto of an unpaged leaf at the end
of the book.
1 I n 1833^ J. M- left his native parish, and in the same
year appeared The Poems of William Ross the Gairloch Bard.
. . . Within the year a second edition of Ross's poems was
called for. — Dixon's Gairloch, p.- 189-190.
ix
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| Description | By William Ross ; collected by John MacKenzie. New edition, revised with metrical translation, memoir, glossary, and notes by George Calder, 1937. Added title page in Gaelic, entitled: Orain Ghaidhealach. |
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| Shelfmark | Mat.78 |
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| Description | Items from a collection of 170 volumes relating to Gaelic matters. Mainly philological works in the Celtic and some non-Celtic languages. Some books extensively annotated by Angus Matheson, the first Professor of Celtic at Glasgow University. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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