An Comunn Gàidhealach Publications > Gaidheal > Volumes 44--45, January 1949--December 1950

CLIU NAN ATHRAICHEAN
Le Eachann Noble MacGilleathain
A Chaluim a ghaoil, bu chaomh leam pilleadh
A null gu eilean an kigh,
Gu cladach nan tonn aig bonn a’ bhaile
Tha buan air m'aire le baigh :
Tha diirachd is miann ag iarraidh sealladh
Aon uair mun diiin mi mo shuil
Air adhar tha shuas os cionn na mara,
Gach bruach is bealach is ciiil.
Tha caoban de fhraoch ri taobh a’ bhothain
Ni suas car tamuill a’ chilis,
Cho coltach rium fein air fogradh fada
O ’n tir ’s an robh mi air tus.
Tha lili is ros is flurain mhaiseach
’S an ailleachd uile cho grinn,
Ag amharc le end air fraoch a’ mhonaidh
’S le nair’ ag cromadh an cinn.
Bha sinne le cheile treun sa’ charraid
Nuair chruinnich na balaich san raoin,
Le caithream is gleus gu blar nan caman,
Meas bhuillean air casan ach faoin,
Ag iomain cho cruaidh le fuaim is farum
'S cha deanadh a’ chomhrag iad sgith,
Gun churam gun ghruaim 's gun smuain air neo-ni
Ach buaidh a cheannach le stri.
Cha chuimhne leam uair a chual mi toibheum
Tuiteam bho bhilean nan laoch;
Bha oilean na h-6ige mor an sealladh
Nam phrant’ measarra caomh;
Bha seo os cionn luach re cuairt an turuis
Air tir ’s air tonnaibh a’ chuain ;
Tha muinntir mo dhiithcha mor an urram,
’S tha cliu nan athraichean buan.
Tha mi an smuain air chuairt sa’ bhaile
As kille cruth agus dealbh,
Aig dachaidh nan daoine stuama cubhaidh,
Na cairdean lurach a dh’fhalbh.
Tha tiom’ air mo chri’ ’s air m’inntinn mu lad
Ag caqidh am furan o chian ;
An duthaich mo ghaoil mar aon air aineol
Tha bron cur seal air a’ ghrian.
loimilias a* C'lioinuian
TREASURER’S NOTES
Magazine Fund
Previously acknowledged..
Mr and Mrs MacDonald, Balmacara
Murdo MacLeod, Esq., Haddington
(Additional) ..
Mrs H. Mcllchere, Campbeltown
Rev. Somerled MacMillan, Glasgow
Rev. D. A. Macrae, South U ist
John Byars, Esq., Fife ..
Major Iain V. McDuffie, Bowmore, Islay
Malcolm MacPherson, Esq., Chelmsford,
Essex ..
T. MacGregor MacDonald, Esq., St.
Vincent, British West Indies
Donald Ross, Esq., Edinburgh ..
Malcolm Clark, Esq., Kilmartin, Argyll
Mrs Bessie Hendry, California ..
£95 11 I
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£100 13 4
An Comunn Central Fund
The high levels of present-day costs of all kinds
are reflected in the largely increased expenditure
involved in conducting the various activities of An
Comunn, even on the pre-war scale, let alone expanding
them. Towards meeting this largely increased ex¬
penditure, donations and subscriptions to the Central
Fund of An Comunn are required to the extent of
£1,000 per annum. Donations, large or small, will
be gladly received and acknowledged by the Treasurer,
Mr. James T. Graham, C.A., 5 St. Vincent Place,
Glasgow, C.l. Remittances should be made payable
to "An Comunn Gaidhealach. '
Previously acknowledged
lochdar Branch, per Donald MacPhail,
Esq., Inverness
Howmore Branch, per Donald MacPhail,
Esq., Inverness
Donald Ross, Esq., Edinburgh ..
£80 17 4
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£84 14 5
Ach togam mo dhuan le uaill tha dligheach
Is duineam tobar nan deoir;
Tha aobhar gu buan air taing is moladh
A luaidh air athraichean c6ir’.
Ruith iadsan an reis am beus ro mheasail
Is ghleidh an creideamh gun bheud;
Is lean iad gu dluth ceann-iuil nam beannachd
An lorga aithnicht’ an treud.
Rinneadh an t-oran seo leis an Urramach Eachann
(Noble MacGilleathain, a bha ’na mhinistear an Van¬
couver an Canada, agus a chaochail o chionn ghoirid.
Rugadh e an Gleann-dail san Eilean Sgitheanach
aims a’ bhliadhna 1866. Bha athair a mhathar—
Tomas Noble—’na mhaighstir-sgoile Gaidhlig an
Gleann-dail, agus lean Anndra Noble, brathair-
mathar Eachainn, san dreuchd sin an sin. ’S e
baird chomasach a bha an Tomas is Anndra Noble,
agus bha tomhas math de spiorad is ealain na bardachd
aig Eachann cuideachd. ’S e mac piuthar-mathar do
Eachann MacGilleathain a bha anns an Urramach
Aonghas MacPharlain nach maireann a bha ’na
mhinistear am Bknath, faisg air Inbhir-nis.
An 1947 an uair a bha cruinneachadh mor aig
Cloinn MhicLeoid an Ceap Breatann, aig am M6d St.
Ann’s, agus a’ Bhean-Uasal Fionnghal NicLeoid,
Ceann-cinnidh nan Leodach, air an ceann, sgriobh
War Memorial and Thanksgiving Fund
Previously acknowledged .. ..£1,010 17 1
Collecting Box at Balmacara Hotel, per
Mr. and Mrs MacDonald, Proprietors 1 10 —
Net Proceeds of .Massed Choirs Concert—
28/10/49, per John Murray, Esq. .. 102 11 8
£1,114 18 4
an t-Ollamh MacGilleathain oran a’ moladh Cloinn
MhicLeoid, ged a bha e fhein ro aosda air son a bhith
an lathair aig a’ chruinneachadh.
Tha sinn an comain an Urramaich Alasdair Boid an
Inbhir-nis agus Mgr. Calum Mac a’ Phi, dliith-
charaid an Ollaimh nach maireann, air son gun tug
iad dhuinn an t-6ran seo agus am fiosrachadh mu’n
iighdar. F.-D.
WAR MEMORIAL and THANKSGIVING FUND
GRAND FEILL—17-20th MAY
r WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT?
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