Of Love and Lamentation:

Echoes of Gaelic Scotland and Ireland

James Ruff tenor and early Gaelic wire-harp

Cumha Peathar Ruaraidh ...................................... Dow coll., Ruaraidh Dall c.1656-1714

Ceann Traigh Ghruinneart/Fraoch a Ronaigh .. Islay, S. Uist c. 1598
Cumha Donnchadh Mhic Iain
(Duncan MacRae of Kintails Lament)ca. 1704

Finne Geal an Lae (The Dawning of Day) ....... Thomas Connellan, 1640-98
ONeills Cavalcade ................................................ coll. Bunting, 1792
Domhnall Merrigeach............................................ coll. Bunting, 1792
Sle Bheag Ni Chonnallain .................................... coll. Bunting, 1792
a) from Donald Blacks singing/Charles Byrnes playing
b) from Arthur ONeills playing

Theid mi le m dheoin ........................................... poet: Mary MacLeod c. 1615-1707

Port ........................................................................... Straloch Manuscript , ca. 1627-29
Alasdair a Gleanna Garradh ................................. poet: Sleas na Ceapaich, ca. 16601729

Cumha Mhic Pharlin ............................................ coll. Bunting, 1792

Cumha Counsellor MacDonough........................ pub. Neal, 1724, attr. T. OCarolan
Sln don Cheol (Farewell to Music) .................... Turlough OCarolan, 1670-1738

Oran eile air Latha Chuil-Lodair .......................... poet: John Roy Stewart, ca. 1745
Limerick Lamentation / Lochaber No More .... Miles OReilly, ca. 1630-50
Fhir a shiubhlas na frithe ...................................... Lochaber, coll. Eigg, ca. 1745

Fhir a chinn dubh / Cumha na Cloinne ............. Traditional

Piobaireachd: Patrick Mr MacCrimmon, 1595-1670