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Tha Mi fo Chùram air Cùlaibh Èireann

Date December 1955
Track ID 93937
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1955.179.A1

Original Tape ID

SA1955.179

Summary

This song relates the composer's feelings about the torpedoing of a ship, which was next to his own ship in a convoy en route to Egypt, during the Second World War. He witnessed the carnage and the destruction and even the drowning of men in life jackets who had survived the torpedoing but who couldn't be saved because of the stormy weather. He says he will never forget the scenes he witnessed.

Item Notes

Composed by Roderick MacLeod of Stocainis, Harris.

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good