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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 MG 6.76 · Fonds · 1987-1994

          Fonds consists of essays from an annual essay competition at the University College of Cape Breton, advancing research in traditional history, songs, narrative traditions of Gaelic culture. Essays are arranged by year of competition.

          1. 1987/88:
            a. Marilyn Dwyer, "Presenting, The Ancient Tradition of Gaelic Psalm Singing in the Presbyterian Church". Essay includes three tapes with an index. T-3193 (a-b-c)
            b. Kate Dunlay, "Cape Bretoners in Boston: Maintaining Identity".
            c. Donald J. MacNeil, "Cape Breton Folksong Tradition".

          2. 1988/89:
            a. Marilyn Dwyer, "An nì nach cluinn mi an diugh chan aithris mi 'maireach, Eòin MacGilliosa MacFhionghuin (Jonathan Gillies MacKinnon)".
            b. Marilyn MacDonald, "Milling Frolics on the North Shore a Look at the Past, Present, and Future". One video tape is included. FT 41
            c. Winnifred J. MacDonald, "Sang abune a' sang" (Collections, Composers, and Fiddlers). One audio tape is included. T-3194

          3. 1990: Kathleen Dunlay, "The Playing of Traditional Scottish Music: Old and New - World Styles and Practices".

          4. 1991: Jacqueline Ann Dunn,"Tha Blas na Gàidhlig Air A h- Uile Fidhleir". (The Sound of Gaelic is in the Fiddler's Music)

          5. 1992: Jeff MacDonald,"Bràighe na H-Aibhne Iarmad mo Shluaigh" (Life and Times of the Scottish Settlers at St. Mary's Parish, River Denys Area.)

          6. 1993-1994: Margaret Bennett "Gaelic Song in Eastern Canada: Twentieth Century Reflections"

          7. 1994: K. Diane Grant "A Study of the Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and Nova Scotia"

          8. 1994: Rannie Gillis "Celtic Education". Family history and an account of how one would be enculturated and socially educated in the Gaelic culture of Cape Breton.

          9. 1994: Paula Rice "Mary with the Ewe". Agricultural practices in Scotland and pioneer Cape Breton.

          CA BI T-693 · Item · 1973
          Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

          Item is an audio recording of various fiddle and Gaelic song selections from the 1973 Glendale festival of fiddlers.

          25 fiddlers, Doyle, Maybelle Chisholm, Margaree Forks (N.S.) - Festival of Fiddlers, Glendale (N.S.), Inverness County (N.S.), July 6,7,8, 1973: Mini finale at Festival of Fiddlers, Friday night, July 6, 1973

          Morris, Rev. Angus Beaton, Joey, Colindale, Mabou - Violin selections

          Chisholm, Rod, M.C., Port Hawkesbury - Opening remarks on Saturday afternoon, July 7, 1973

          MacKinnon, Allie, Sydney (N.S.) - Violin selections

          MacDonald, Duncan, Hillsboro - Violin selections

          Sampson, Dominic, L'Ardoise - Violin selections

          MacDonald, Mrs. Kay, New Waterford - A' Chruinneag Ileach

          MacPhee, Billy, Sydney (N.S.) - Violin selections

          Hall, John; Gillis, Donnie, Sydney (N.S.) - Violin selections

          Jobes, Hugh A.,Boulardie - Festival of Fiddlers, Glendale (N.S.), Inverness County (N.S.), July 7, 1973: Violin selections

          MacKenzie, Hector, Washabuct - Violin selections

          MacMaster, Mrs. Minnie, Troy - Stepdancing

          MacMillan, Rev. Allan, Lakevale - Sealladh mise null gu duthaich mo run...

          Campbell, John, Mabou (N.S.) and Boston - Violin selections

          Wright, Fred, Mull River - Violin selections

          MacLeod, John, Mull River and Sudbury - Violin selections

          MacDonald, Mary Catherine "Kay"
          CA BI T-324 · Item · 1972
          Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

          Item is an audio recording of fiddler Alex Francis MacKay, and gaelic singer Lauchie Gillis.

          Violin tunes
          Violin tunes
          Song: Oran an t-saighdear
          Song: Iain Gleann Cuach
          Song: Chi mi na Morbheannan
          Song: Teannaibh Dluth is Togaibh Fonn
          Song: Horo hug oran oho

          Gillis, Lauchie
          CA BI GSM28 · Item · n.d.

          Item is a photocopy of a song appearing in a newspaper. It praises the work of a Doctor Angus MacLennan who, while serving as an MP (1882-1886), was instrumental in bringing the railway to western Inverness County so that industries could be developed there.

          CA BI T-353 · Item · 1972
          Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

          Item is an audio recording of the Glendale N.S Gaelic Players singing and performing a Gaelic play. Gaelic play entitled "Katie is Coming Home", written by Rev. S.P. MacDonald. Recording includes a conversation with Joseph L. MacDonald.

          A Cape Breton Gaelic play
          Tha mi an diugh gu tinn
          Ho ro gur thu mo run
          Gaelic play - Act II
          Illean ill o, illean i
          Square set
          My own Glen
          Early days in Sydney (N.S.)
          The Townsends, Muggahs, Crawleys
          A boom in Sydney (N.S.) - 1872
          A Gaelic tid-bit
          Father Edwards last Mass in Boisdale

          MacDonald, Joseph Lawrence