- Date
- 2020
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- music-folkloreheritageirish-arranmoremigrationhistoriography
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Katie Else’s 2020 “Leaving Arranmore” is a modern release that carries forward a Beaver Island–Arranmore family-song tradition. Its release page attributes the lyrics to Catherine Gallagher’s departure from Arranmore for Beaver Island and characterizes the surviving text as an English translation by Owen McCauley.
The release therefore documents a contemporary act of cultural memory and attribution. It does not itself document an 1860s voyage, authenticate an original Irish-language lyric, or resolve the contested dates and family identification in the 1972 Beaver Beacon accounts.
Evidence and limits
The archive holds the release-page capture and its provenance, not a deposited audio master, original manuscript, oral-history recording, or translation manuscript. The attributed historical account remains source-bounded: the modern artist’s metadata and the local family newspaper narrative should be read alongside, rather than substituted for, civil, parish, migration, or folklore-collection records.
See also
Sources
- Held release-page capture attributes the song text to Catherine Gallagher’s 1866 emigration from Arranmore to Beaver Island and says it survives only in English translation by her grandson Owen McCauley. It is contemporary artist-supplied release metadata, not the original Irish manuscript, a contemporaneous migration record, a sound recording of Catherine Gallagher, or independent proof of the stated family relationship and date.web · katie_else_leaving_arranmore
- Project provenance sidecar for the Katie Else Bandcamp release-page capture, retrieved 2 August 2026.Records the retrieval URL, timestamp, checksum, page-owner copyright notice, and the capture’s research-citation purpose. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.web · katie_else_leaving_arranmore.provenance
- Described in this archive: Catherine Gallagher.The local family accounts separately associate Catherine Gallagher with a Gaelic departure song and preserve a correction about the family transmission. They do not supply the original text or independently establish the modern release’s wording.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1972-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eight-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1972-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The Association relayed Katie Else's request for the melody or original Irish wording of “Leaving Arranmore,” which she associated with Catherine Gallagher and Owen McCauley's English translation. This is a research inquiry and community lead, not proof of the lyric's survival, authorship, or original language.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 05 · t005823
Added 2 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Katie Else’s “Leaving Arranmore”, 2020”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/katie-else-leaving-arranmore-2020/, accessed [date], citing Katie Else, “Leaving Arranmore,” *Songs from across the Lake and Sea*, Bandcamp, released 2020. (and 4 further sources listed on the page).
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