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Fògradh, fàisneachd, filidheachd an t-urr. Donnchadh Blàrach (1815-1893) ann am 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.

by Blair, Duncan B., 1815-1893.

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Cape Breton University Press, c2013.

9781927492437 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Parting, prophecy, poetry, Rev. Duncan B. Blair (1815-1893) in Mac-talla

256 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Text in Scots Gaelic and English.

"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, Fògradh, Fàisneachd, 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. Although some of Blair’s poems have been included in various collections, his prose writings have not previously been published."--CBUP.

Bilingual books.

MacPherson, John A., 1937-

Linkletter, Michael, 1971-

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