PS 205 – Young Neil’s Salute

      Fàilte Néill Òig

      Fuaim na Tuinne ri Duntreòin

Primary Sources

Fuaim na tuine ri Duntróne / The sound of the waves against Duntrone R.15: 12v
K2 Failte Niall oig / Index: Young Neils Salute K2.29: 61

Notes on Gaelic Titles

Fàilte Néill Òig Failte Niall oig K2; Young Neils Salute K2 index. Young Neil’s Salute.

Fuaim na Tuinne ri Duntreòin Fuaim na tuine ri Duntróne / The sound of the waves against Duntrone R. The sound of the waves against Duntroon.The song beginning Fàilte dhuit… and containing the title phrase, is in D. Kennedy, A Laoidheadair Gaelic… An dara clo-bualadh. To which is added, Short tracts on the Reformation; The invasions of Coll Macdonald…[etc], copy in the National Library of Scotland, Blair (1836), p. 76, and in ‘Fionn’, The historic, biographic and legendary notes to David Glen’s collection of piobaireachd, Edinburgh (1911), p. 20. For discussion see R. Black,‘Colla Ciotach’, Trans Gaelic Soc. Inverness, xlviii (1972-74) 201–243.

Roderick Cannon (2009)

William Donaldson Set Tunes Notes (2017)

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