Fogradh, Faisneachd, Filidheachd / Parting, Prophecy, Poetry

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Nimbus Publishing

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491_9781927492437

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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. Blairs contributions to Mac-Talla were extensive.In the original Gaelic, with English translations by John Alick MacPherson, Fògradh, Fàisneachd, Filidheachd / Parting, Prophesy, Poetry includes Blairs 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 Blairs travels around the Maritimes - all published in Mac-Talla.

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