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Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet composed the new lyrics to Ross's song which had been heard by Anne Campbell MacLeod in the 1870s, and the line "Over the Sea to Skye" is now a cornerstone of the tourism industry on the Isle of Skye. Alternative lyrics to the tune were written by Robert Louis Stevenson, probably in 1885.
The Isle of Arran [7] (/ ˈ æ r ən /; Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Arainn) or simply Arran is an island off the west coast of Scotland. It is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde and the seventh-largest Scottish island, at 432 square kilometres (167 sq mi).
Arran Gaelic is an extinct dialect of Scottish Gaelic that was spoken on the Isle of Arran, and one of the last of the Southern Dialects to go extinct. Pronunciation [ edit ]
The lyrics mention first the hills of the Isle of Skye (whose memory is calling the traveller west), then the successive locations he will pass on the way across the Western Highlands and Inner and Outer Hebrides.
Emain Ablach (also Emne; Middle Irish Emhain Abhlach or Eamhna; meaning "Emhain of the Apples") is a mythical island paradise in Irish mythology.It is often regarded as the realm of the sea god Manannán Mac Lir and identified with either the Isle of Man or, less plausibly, the Isle of Arran.
The Holy Island or Holy Isle (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean MoLaise) is an island in the Firth of Clyde, off the west coast of central Scotland, inside Lamlash Bay on the larger Isle of Arran. The island is around 3 kilometres (1 + 7 ⁄ 8 mi) long and around 1 kilometre (5 ⁄ 8 mi) wide. Its highest point is the hill Mullach Mòr.
Roberton appropriated this form of the melody from a Gaelic song with lyrics relating to nostalgia for Skye in the trenches of the First World War, one of several entitled Eilean mo Chrìdh'. Its English title Isle of my Heart features in Roberton’s lyric.
Cìr Mhòr (Scottish Gaelic, usually with definite article, A' Chìr Mhòr) is a Corbett known as the Matterhorn of Arran. Its name means the "big comb", referring its resemblance to a cockscomb . It is separated from the island's highest peak, Goat Fell , by a col called The Saddle .