Fogradh, Faisneachd, Filidheachd / Parting, Prophecy, Poetry (Scots Gaelic Edition)

Rev. Duncan B. Blair (1815-1893) Gaelic linguist, poet who composed sacred and secular poems, laments and songs and prose. Among his contributions to Mac-Talla, of Sydney, Nova Scotia, were a series of essays on the Highland Clearances. Now, transcribed in the original Gaelic with English translations. Born Strachur, Argyllshire, moved to Pictou, Nova Scotia, the following year. He was in Ontario from May 1847 to October 1848. Presbyterian congregation of Barney’s River and Blue Mountain, Pictou County. In Gaelic, Blair composed sacred poems, laments and secular poems and songs, totalling some 16,650 lines. His contribution to Mac-Talla was extensive during a short period of time. Gaelic, social history, Scottish Highlands, Clearances.

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, " espoused A. Maclean Sinclair. Blair composed sacred and secular poems, laments and songs and prose, many of which were published in Mac-Talla, the famous Gaelic newspaper published in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Among his contributions to Mac-Talla were a series of essays on the Highland Clearances. Blair's poems have been studied and presented elsewhere over the years, but less is known about his prose. Now, transcribed in the original Gaelic with English translations, Fògradh, Fàisneachd, Filidheachd / Parting, Prophecy, Poetry includes Blair's articles about the Clearances, an account of a 16th-century seer who some say foretold of the Clearances, essays about Blair's travels around the Maritimes and Ontario and a number of his poems, all as published in Mac-Talla.

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," espoused A. Maclean Sinclair. Blair composed sacred and secular poems, laments and songs and prose, many of which were published in Mac-Talla, the famous Gaelic newspaper published in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Among his contributions to Mac-Talla were a series of essays on the Highland Clearances. Blair's poems have been studied and presented elsewhere over the years, but less is known about his prose. Now, transcribed in the original Gaelic with English translations, Fògradh, Fàisneachd, Filidheachd / Parting, Prophecy, Poetry includes Blair's articles about the Clearances, an account of a 16th-century seer who some say foretold of the Clearances, essays about Blair's travels around the Maritimes and Ontario and a number of his poems, all as published in Mac-Talla . 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. In the original Gaelic, with English translations by John Alick MacPherson, Fogradh, Faisneachd, Filidheachd =/ Parting, Prophesy, Poetry includes Blair's articles about the Highland Clearances, a number of his poems, an account of a 16th-century seer who some say foretold of the Clearances and articles about Blair's travels around the Maritimes - all published in Mac-Talla. Deasaichte Le Seonaidh Ailig Mac A' Phearsain Agus Mìcheal Linkletter = Parting, Prophecy, Poetry, Rev. Duncan B. Blair (1815-1893) In Mac-talla / Edited And Translated By John A. Macpherson And Michael Linkletter. Includes Bibliographical References. Text In Scots Gaelic And English.