Mo Dhachaidh (My Ain Home)

DESCRIPTION: Gaelic. Our house by the ferry is surrounded with flowers and birds, protected by the hill from snow. My wife is "the star o' my hame ... the bairnies are singin'" We don't need riches.
AUTHOR: Malcolm MacFarlane
EARLIEST DATE: 1903 (The Celtic Monthly)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage lyric nonballad home wife
FOUND IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
ADDITIONAL:
Alfred Moffat, The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Highlands, pp. 48-49 in the soft-cover edition printed c.1960, pp. 92-93 in the hard-cover edition printed c.1908
RECORDINGS:
Malcolm Angus McLeod, "Mo Dhachaidh" (on NovaScotia1)
NOTES [68 words]: The description is based on Moffat's translation by Alexander Stewart. - BS
Jaan Kolk pointed out to me the publication of this work in The Celtic Monthly with a report date of March 13. 1893; this was the winning poem in a Gaelic poetry contest. This first printing was signed "Tobar a' Chaibeil" ("The Well of the Chapel"?), but the prize was awarded to Malcolm MacFarlane, so the authorship is clear. - RBW
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