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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]
For example, in "Moch sa Mhadainn 's Mi Dùsgadh" ("Rising Early"), Dòmhnall Iain Dhonnchaidh somewhat facetiously rewrote Scottish national poet Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair's "Òran Eile donn Phrionnsa" ("A New Song to the Prince"), which celebrates the arrival in Scotland of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the raising of his standard at ...
Dalelia is most famous as the birthplace of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, who along with Sorley MacLean remains one of the two most important figures in the history of Scottish Gaelic literature. [3]
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair. Arisaig Old Cemetery, Burial place of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair. William Aytoun. Helen Adam; Henry Adamson; Hew Ainslie ...
The most significant poet in the language during this era was Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (Alasdair MacDonald, c. 1698–1770), who emerged as the Scottish nationalist poet of the Jacobite cause and whose poetry marks a shift away from the Scottish clan-based tradition of both war and praise poetry. [46]
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 ...
Revealing that he saw the Jacobite rising of 1745 as the continuation of the war his ancestors had waged against Oliver Cromwell and the Rump Parliament, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair's 1751 poetry book "Ais-Eiridh na Sean Chánoin Albannaich" ("The Resurrection of the Ancient Scottish Language") included literary translations into Gaelic of ...