Ossianic Ballads--References to Books, etc.
OSSIANIC BALLADS--REFERENCES TO BOOKS, ETC.
* Means that the piece, in some form, is still current.
| 1530. | Dean MacGregor's MSS. See published list of contents, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 1856, and papers read, 24th January 1831. Report of the Highland Society on the poems of Ossian p. 93, and appendix, 302. See selections published 1862. (Edinburgh: Edmonton and Douglas.) The following references have been taken from the other authorities, but the selections will probably give a full account of this interesting manuscript. |
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| 106. | Dan air crom Ghlearm |
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| 112. | Iambair Aluinn |
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| * 140. | Cuchullin na charbad |
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| 153. | Colg Shuil is Trathail |
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| 170. | Dan Chiothaich | 590 |
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| * 178. | Oisian do'n Ghrein | 592 |
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| 181. | Ditto |
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| 183. | Mor Ghlan agus Min Fhonn |
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| 193. | Comhrag Fhinn ague Garbh MacStairn |
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| 196. | An t' Sealg a's mò rinn an Fhian |
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| 200. | Conall. Ghulbuinn |
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| 207. | Ursgeul Oisian |
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| 209. | Ioma Cheist Oisian |
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| 221. | Laoidh Deirdreann | 562 |
1805. J. Macdonald, MS. Collection (Advocates' Library).
A number of poems are printed in the Report of the Highland Society, 1805, and there are numerous private collections written in modern times, of which I have heard. Their owners would do well to send them to the Advocates' Library to be preserved there with the rest of the Gaelic manuscripts, to which attention has been called, and which are now arranged and catalogued. Some of these pieces have been reprinted in the West of Scotland Magazine, and were also translated in Drummond's Irish Minstrelsy. One (I am told) was lately made into a kind of musical play, and acted in Ireland.