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  2. Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of Scottish poets - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Arisaig Old Cemetery, Burial place of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair. William Aytoun. Helen Adam; Henry Adamson;

  4. Scottish Gaelic dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... ("A book for the teaching of names") in 1741, compiled by Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair. ...

  5. Category:18th-century Scottish diarists - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair; Graham Moore (Royal Navy officer) P. Agnes Porter; R. Elizabeth Rose, Lady of ...

  6. Ailean a' Ridse MacDhòmhnaill - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. William Ross (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Other iconic 18th-century Gaelic poets, especially Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair of Lochaber and Iain mac Fhearchair of North Uist, are known to have been major influences. [3] [28] More recently, iconic Gaelic poet Fr. Allan MacDonald expressed admiration for William Ross in a diary entry for 22 February, 1898: "Took up W. Ross and read pieces.

  8. Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat - Wikipedia

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    Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, who served as the prince's tutor in the Gaelic language [91] and who is regarded, along with Sorley MacLean, as one of the two pinnacles of Scottish Gaelic literature, [92] also composed (Scottish Gaelic: Òran Mhorair Mhic-Shiomoin, Ceanncinnidh nam Frisealach, d'éis a chur gu bàs an Sasgunn, "An Elegy on ...

  9. List of war poets - Wikipedia

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    Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair; John Roy Stewart; Seán "Clárach" Mac Domhnaill: Mo Ghile Mear; Walter Scott; Carolina Nairne; Agnes Maxwell MacLeod; Allan Cunningham; William Hamilton; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Paul Revere's Ride; Ralph Waldo Emerson: Concord Hymn; David Humphreys; Iain mac Mhurchaidh [1] Cionneach MacCionnich [2]