Sgàire Uallas (Editor)
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This new collection of Jacobite arch-poet Alexander MacDonald’s work brings together the songs published in previous editions of Aiseirigh as well as those which remained in manuscript until the 20th century.
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An Clò Glas, 2020. 252 pages. Paperback.
This new collection of Jacobite arch-poet Alexander MacDonald’s work brings together the songs published in previous editions of Aiseirigh as well as those which remained in manuscript until the 20th century. This is the bard’s oeuvre in all of its glory and its salaciousness, as the censoring which plagued the collection through the Victorian era has been undone.
Seonag Monk
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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Michael –
After 3 introductions in English of the previous editions and an introduction to this edition in Gaelic, this book contains 60 poems, in Gaelic only ( no translations ), whereas other editions contain either just the basic original 31, or with also a supplement of 8 extra poems(=39). It is also printed in the new ( reformed ) spelling system rather than the, more difficult to understand, older spelling system used by Mac Mhaighstir and his original publishers, but the text is the same.
This edition includes the well-known, but not my favourites” Moladh Mòraig “, ” Mì-mholadh Mòraig “, and my two favorites:
” Fàilte na Mòr-thìr ” ( ” Fàilt’ ort fhèin, a mhòr-thìr bhòidheach… ” ) in the full text of 58 couplets ( the 33 of the first publication and 25 of amendments / unattested ) , the first stanzas of which I saw quoted on a panel in front of the cemetery of St Maelrubha’s Chapel, Kilmory Church in Arisaig where the author is ( said to be ) buried, and the full text of the long epic poem ” Bìrlinn Chlann Raghnaill “, which is not usually included at all in the other editions of ” Aiseirigh ” / ” The Poetical Works of Alexander MacDonald “.
This book is presently not available at The Gaelic Bookshop but is still available in ” other places “.