MacDonald, Alexander, c.1700-c.1770 (Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair | poet and schoolmaster)

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Typescript copy of the letter 'M' from A Galick and English Vocabulary by Alexander MacDonald (Edinburgh, 1741) also known as 'Focloir'.

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Script for a lecture on ALexander McDonald, though it may require further investigation to ascertain which Alexander McDonald that may be (possibly Alasdair mac Mhaighistir Alasdair?). It appears to have been a lecture delivered by Mackinnon, although it does not look like Mackinnon's handwriting

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This appears to be a script for a lecture, conducted by Mackinnon himself. There is no date on the document, so we cannot be certain when the lecture was held. The content of the lecture is about the Gaelic poet, Alexander MacDonald, known in Gaelic as Alastair Mac Mhaighistir Alastair. Unusually for Mackinnon's lectures, this lectures appears to have been conducted in Gaelic.

Scope and Contents These appears to be scripts for lectures, delivered by Donald Mackinnon in the academic years 1884-85 and 1895-96* at the University of Edinburgh. The papers had been mixed up, and so the page numbers are currently out of sequence. Mackinnon may have reused lectures, or reused paper, so some of the scripts are possibly not part of the same lecture (especially Mackinnon C.12(1)(g) below). 7 scripts have been discerned from the file, which is two more than was noted in previous historical...

Scope and Contents Unfinished essay entitled 'The Bards and Bardism of the Highlands', written by Alexander Carmichael over several sessions. Carmichael makes comparisons between noted Gaelic poets such as William Ross [Uilleam Ros] and Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair [Alexander MacDonald] and Robert Burns and Lord Byron. He asserts that some of the finest poetry written in English has come from the Gaelic tradition. He refers to the importance of poetry in society citing the loss of Gaelic manuscripts by...

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Mackinnon wrote this article or lecture as a discussion of poems that he found in manuscript NLS.72.2.13, which Mackinnon believed were written by Mac Mhaighistir Alastair. According to previous historical records, this article was published in the "Celtic Review", vol. IV, p. 289 - vol. V, p. 294.*

*This may need to be substantiated