Dugald Buchanan (1716-68): The poet, the translator, and the manuscript evidence
Donald E. Meek
Professor Meek’s Canna Lecture represents a further valuable contribution to the study of Gaelic literature, this time turning the focus on the eighteenth century and the work of one of its major literary figures, Perthshire poet Dugald Buchanan.
Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair: His Political Poetry
Derick S. Thomson (Editor)
Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair was involved in a number of significant political events in Scotland in the 18th century, in particular the 1745 Jacobite Uprising. This booklet looks at the poet’s life and political poetry in detail.
In 1940, in Barra in the Outer Hebrides, an 18-year-old woman, Flòraidh, is persuaded to leave her island home when she learns that her stepmother intends to marry her off to the local shopkeeper. She follows her enigmatic friend Lavinia to the city and changes her identity to Laura, like a butterfly, leaving her chrysalis behind, as they join the war effort.
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