William Gillies, holder of the Chair of Celtic Languages, Literature, History and Antiquities in the University of Edinburgh from 1979 to 2009 has made an immense contribution to Celtic scholarship.
Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh: Song-maker of Skye and Berneray
Scottish Gaelic Texts Society, 2014. 315 pages. Hardback.
Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh (c. 1615-c.1707) is perhaps the best known poet of the MacLeod family, one of the earliest practitioners of Scottish Gaelic clan poetry.
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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