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"Mo Ghile Mear" (translated "My Gallant Darling", "My Spirited Lad" and variants) is an Irish song.The modern form of the song was composed in the early 1970s by Dónal Ó Liatháin (1934–2008), using a traditional air collected in Cúil Aodha, County Cork, and lyrics selected from Irish-language poems by Seán "Clárach" Mac Domhnaill (1691–1754).
Tàladh Chrìosda (' Christ's lullaby ') is the popular name for the Scottish Gaelic Christmas carol Tàladh ar Slànaigheir (' the Lullaby of our Saviour ').It is traditionally sung at Midnight Mass in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.
The dictionary will document fully the history of the Scottish Gaelic language and culture from the earliest manuscript material onwards, [7] placing Scottish Gaelic in context with Irish and Lowland Scots, and it will show the relationship between Scottish Gaelic and Irish. [citation needed]
Cairn Capercaillie Claymore Trousers Bard [1] The word's earliest appearance in English is in 15th century Scotland with the meaning "vagabond minstrel".The modern literary meaning, which began in the 17th century, is heavily influenced by the presence of the word in ancient Greek (bardos) and ancient Latin (bardus) writings (e.g. used by the poet Lucan, 1st century AD), which in turn took the ...
The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) (Scots: Dictionar o the Scots Leid, Scottish Gaelic: Faclair de Chànan na Albais) is an online Scots–English dictionary run by Dictionaries of the Scots Language. Freely available via the Internet, the work comprises the two major dictionaries of the Scots language: [1]
Christopher Whyte Christopher Whyte. Christopher Whyte (Crìsdean MacIlleBhàin; born 29 October 1952) is a Scottish poet, novelist, translator and critic.He is a novelist in English, a poet in Scottish Gaelic, the translator into English of Marina Tsvetaeva, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Maria Rilke, and a critic of Scottish and international literature.
Fear a' Bhàta (translated The boatman) is a Scots Gaelic song from the late 18th century, written by an unknown author waiting for her lover to return from his fishing journeys. The song captures the emotions that she endured during their courtship.
Sorley MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Somhairle MacGill-Eain; [i] [ii] 26 October 1911 – 24 November 1996) was a Scottish Gaelic poet, described by the Scottish Poetry Library as "one of the major Scottish poets of the modern era" because of his "mastery of his chosen medium and his engagement with the European poetic tradition and European politics". [2]