 | Brigh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song Subjects: MacLellan Lauchie 1910–1991; Folk songs Gaelic -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island; Tales -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island; Celts -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Folklore; Lauchie MacLellan (1910-1991), carpenter, farmer, and woodsman, was one of this century's outstanding Scottish Gaelic singer-storytellers. MacLellan, part of a Scottish family with an extensive Gaelic oral tradition who emigrated to Canada early in the ni Shaw John : John Shaw is the editor and translator of Tales Until Dawn: The World of a Cape Breton Gaelic Story-Teller and Brigh an Òrain: A Story in Every Song. He is senior lecturer in ethnology at the University of Edinburgh. |
