Lyrics & Knowledge Personal Pages Record Shop Auction Links Radio & Media Kids Membership Help
The Mudcat Cafesj



User Name Thread Name Subject Posted
GUEST,Mike McKenna Jr Origin The Blackleg Miner (106* d) RE: Origin The Blackleg Miner 26 Oct 19

I think this might help to add context to the word Yahie:

Many Gaelic speakers from rural parts of the island moved to the industrial areas to work in the coal mines. Some would stay in lodgings during the week and go home at the weekends.

On Friday they would announce, "Tha sinn a' dol dhachaidh," meaning "We are going home." (Some were also regarded by the collectivised miners as "blacklegs," or scabs.) Hence, the disparaging term "the Yahie miners," "yahie" being a phonetic rendering of "dhachaidh."

Sources below!

The Beaton Institute, Cape Breton University
http://www.beatoninstitutemusic.ca/mining/oran-a-mheinneadair.html

*A Cape Breton Gaelic song called 'Mo Dhachaidh' or 'My Home'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvJGYjxhTZE

Post to this Thread -

Back to the Main Forum Page

By clicking on the User Name, you will requery the forum for that user. You will see everything that he or she has posted with that Mudcat name.

By clicking on the Thread Name, you will be sent to the Forum on that thread as if you selected it from the main Mudcat Forum page.
   * Click on the linked number with * to view the thread split into pages (click "d" for chronologically descending).

By clicking on the Subject, you will also go to the thread as if you selected it from the original Forum page, but also go directly to that particular message.

By clicking on the Date (Posted), you will dig out every message posted that day.

Try it all, you will see.