Thanaig a' righ air tir am Muideart (The King Has Landed At Moidart) (with interview)

Date recorded: June 17, 1951 to June 19, 1951
Contributor(s): Performer: MacKellaig, Catherine; Performer: MacCaig, Norman; Performer: Lomax, Alan; Recordist: Lomax, Alan

Subject(s):

Genre: interview/commentary, Jacobite song, spoken

Culture: Gaelic, Scotland, Scottish

Instruments: voice

Setting: Probably the home of Catherine MacKellaig

Language: Gaelic, Scottish

Location: Onich, Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom

Physical form: Reel to Reel

Tape number: T3374

Track Number: 18

Archive ID: T3374R18

Note: MacKellaig explains the story of the Jacobite song "Thanaig a' righ air tir am Muideart" (The King has Landed at Moidart) and sings a fragment of it.

Transcript:
Belongs to: Onich 6/51

About the session: Recordings of Mrs. Catherine MacKellaig. Lomax describes her in his notes: "Nearly sixty, two children, brought up in Moidart, went away to Glasgow to work, met husband in Fort William (he came from same district), married end of first world war, settled in Fort William, then gamekeeper till '35 while son was in North Africa way, came and bought a teashop here in Onich."

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