Tales until dawn : the world of a Cape Breton Gaelic story-teller
MacNeil, Joe Neil, 1908-1987
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MacNeil is a Scottish Gaelic speaker living in North America's only gaidhealtachd, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. John Shaw has collected and translated into English from MacNeil's oral recitation some 51 folktales plus legends, reminiscences, jokes, proverbs, rhymes, games, and assorted other folklore, all superbly introduced and thoroughly annotated. The book is the finest collection of a single repertory of any Scottish Gaelic speaker. It is a tribute to the Cape Breton community in which MacNeil and Shaw live and which provided the traditions that MacNeil carries and Shaw has preserved.
Main title:
Tales until dawn : the world of a Cape Breton Gaelic story-teller / Joe Neil MacNeil ; translated and edited by John Shaw.
Author:
MacNeil, Joe Neil, 1908-, authorShaw, John, editor, translator
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1987.
Collation:
xli, 483 pages : 1 portrait., 2 maps ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Added title-page in Gaelic: Sgeul gu latha, le Eòs (Eòs Nìll Bhig) MacNìll...Bibliography, p479-483.Parallel Scottish Gaelic text and English translation.
ISBN:
08522456459780852245644
Dewey class:
398.2109411398.21398
LC class:
GR144
Local class:
398.2109411808.916
Language:
EnglishScottish Gaelic
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Index terms:
Scottish tales AnthologiesGAELIC FOLK TALESSCOTTISH FOLK TALES
BRN:
981229
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