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CA BI T-316 · Item · 1971
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

MacDonald, Mr. Eugene:

  • They say the women used to carry their own spinning wheels; could you tell us more about the spinning Frolics?
  • Returning to the story of the threshing mills, and didn't you mention the word "winnowing" and feeding the fanners?
  • The milling frolics were wonderful events - did they always sing Gaelic songs?
  • Whom Shall I take on the Irish Ship?
  • Song for rolling the cloth
  • Was the purpose of the milling to thicken the cloth
  • How about a good joke
  • Father Rankin questioned about early soap making by the Cape Breton Island (N.S.) women
  • Funeral customs
  • 9 Gallons of rum
  • Ghost stories in Gaelic

    Father John Angus Rankin:

  • Ghost stories in English
  • Ghost story continued from Side 1
  • Another ghost story
  • A second sight story

    Bessie Maceachern:

  • Am falbh thu leam a ribhinn og
  • Mairi ni 'n Domhnuill
  • Am Fleasgach Donn

    Billy MacPhee: Violin Selections

Rankin, Fr. John Angus
CA BI T-349 · Item · 1972
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is a recording of various Gaelic singers in Glenorchy, Scotland. Some singers are unidentified.

Hector Macandrew - Violin selections

Ronald Macdonald - Duan (Puirt-a-Beul)
Fail i ill o ill
Alasdair an Duin
Alltan Dubh

Gaelic Singers (Unidentified) - Fagail Lismore
Gaelic Song
Nighean Donn a' Chul Reidh
Eilean Uidhist mo Ghraidh
Morag a' Dunbheagan
Balaich an iasgach

Rankin, Fr. John Angus