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Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair was born around 1698, into both the Scottish nobility and Clan MacDonald of Clanranald.Through his great-grandmother Màiri, daughter of Angus MacDonald of Islay, he claimed descent from Scottish Kings Robert the Bruce and Robert II, the first monarch of the House of Stuart, [22] as well as, like the rest of Clan Donald, from Somerled.
Due to his experiences as military officer and war poet during and after the Jacobite rising of 1745, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair also remains the most overtly nationalist and anti-Whig Gaelic poet of the era and his 1751 poetry collection Ais-Eiridh na Sean Chánoin Albannaich was accordingly burned by the public hangman in Edinburgh. [33]
So much of the traditions of Lochaber and the Gaelic poetry of his father were written down by Alasdair a' Ridse that Raasay-born poet Sorley MacLean, who along with Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair remains one of the two greatest figures in the history of Scottish Gaelic literature, was later to comment that Rev. Sinclair, "had no need to come ...
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair; Graham Moore (Royal Navy officer) P. Agnes Porter; R. Elizabeth Rose, Lady of Kilravock This page was last edited on 4 May 2024, at ...
Some 40 years later, the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge published a title called Leabhar a Theagasc Ainminnin ("A book for the teaching of names") in 1741, compiled by Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair. [1] Timeline
In addition to being well known locally as a folk hero, [clarification needed] Maighstir Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill was the father of poet Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, [8] who served as the Gaelic tutor to Prince Charles Edward Stuart during the Jacobite rising of 1745 and is one of the most important figures of Scottish Gaelic literature.
Alasdair Mac Colla Chiotaich MacDhòmhnaill (c. 1610 – 13 November 1647), also known by the English variant of his name Sir Alexander MacDonald, was a military officer best known for his participation in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, notably the Irish Confederate Wars and Montrose's Royalist campaign in Scotland during 1644–45.
In 1933, literary scholar Angus MacLeod praised Kenneth Mackenzie's poetry of life at sea and compared them to Gaelic national poet Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair's immortal Birlinn Chlann Raghnaill, which describes the voyage of a Highland war galley across the Irish Sea from South Uist to Carrickfergus. This comparison was, according to ...