Includes a recently discovered critical essay by Somhairle MacGill-Eain ‘Five Gaelic poems – regional, national or European?’ Also work by Emma Dymock, Kate Louise Mathis, Thomas Clancy and Ronald Black.
This edition contains the eleven existing songs by Mairghread nighean Lachlainn, all in highly formal praise of the MacLean or Duart family or their close kinsmen.
John Maclean was not only an outstanding scholar, he was also a fine poet, whose output embraced original Gaelic verse and a large body of translations from Latin and Greek, and also English, as well as compositions in these languages.
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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