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Cape Breton University Press, 2013. 256 pages. Paperback.
Rev. Duncan B. Blair (1815-1893) in Mac-Talla.
Edited and translated by John A. Macpherson and Michael Linkletter
Rev. Duncan B. Blair (1815-1893) was “an excellent linguist, a good poet, and a devout man. As an accurate writer of Gaelic he had no superior.” Blair composed sacred poems, laments and secular poems and songs. Mac-Talla, the first Gaelic newspaper in the world was published in Sydney, Nova Scotia, between 1892 and 1904. Blair’s contributions to Mac-Talla were extensive.
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