Micí Mac Gabhann

Deceased Person

1865 – 1948

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Who was Micí Mac Gabhann?

Micí Mac Gabhann was a seanchaí and memoirist from the County Donegal Gaeltacht. His posthumously published memoir Rotha Mór an tSaoil was dictated to his folklorist son-in law Seán Ó hEochaidh and translated into English by Valentin Iremonger as The Hard Road to Klondike. It describes his life as an Irish-speaking labourer in the Scottish Lowlands and in the silver mines in Butte, Montana. He also vividly describes his experiences in the Klondike gold rush. After his return to Donegal in 1901, he used his goldmining fortune to purchase the estate which had formerly belonged to the Anglo-Irish gentry and raised a family there.

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Born
Nov 22, 1865
Cloughaneely
Died
1948

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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