Poets, Scottish
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Story entitled 'Leabhar Dearg Chlann Mhuirich', c1865
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/17
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Story entitled 'Leabhar Dearg Chlann Mhuirich' [The Red Book of Clann Mhuirich] collected from Seonaid Nic Mhurich [Janet Currie], aged 64, Staoinebrig, Uist D[eas] [Staoinebrig, Stoneybridge, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] on 24 February 1865. The story tells how in a time of great violence the Iarla Leanna [Earl of Lennox but queried by Carmichael as Earl of Antrim] escaped to the mountains with his son. Feeling compelled to return to his people who he knew were in danger, he left his son in...
Dates:
c1865
Story entitled 'Leabhar Dearg Clann Muirich', 24 January or February 1865
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/12
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Leabhar Dearg Clann Muirich' collected from Seonaid Nic Muirich [Janet Currie], age 64, Staoinebreac, Uist a chinne Deas [Staoinebrig/Stoneybridge, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The story tells how in a time of great violence the Iarla Leanna [Earl of Lennox] escaped to the mountains with his son. Feeling compelled to return to his people who he knew were in danger, he left his son in the mountains telling him to go whichever way God told him to go. Muireach, the Earl's son...
Dates:
24 January or February 1865
Third Anniversary Address to the Alexander Anderson 'Surfaceman' Club, c 1913
Item — Box CLX-A-345
Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0061
Scope and Contents
This is a notebook containing the third Anniversary Address to the Alexander Anderson 'Surfaceman' Club. It is not dated but internal evidence points to 1913. The speaker is not identified but is presumably the S. M. Murray of Edinburgh, whose name is in pencil at the beginning of the notebook. The speaker is, in fact, a last-minute stand-in, who apologizes for not having known Anderson personally, briefly sketches his life, then describes his poetic themes with copious quotation. It's not,...
Dates:
c 1913
Two stories relating to Cladh-Mhoire Nunton, 20 January 1871
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/149
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Two stories collected from Hector MacLeod, aged 85, at Caisteal Bhuirgh/Borve Castle, Lionacleit/Linaclate, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula telling how Cladh-Mhoire Nunton [Baile nan Cailleach] had a roof which was burned the same night as all other church roofs were burnt in Scotland for reasons which remain a mystery. 'No such secret as this was ever Kept. Nothing is know[n] of it.' The first person to be buried there was Bard dugh mhic Neill Bharrai [Bàrd Dubh Mhic Neill Bharraigh] who fell...
Dates:
20 January 1871
Two stories under the title 'Do'ull Gearr no Cearr' about Niall Mòr MacMhuirich and accompanying note, 1865 and 1875
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/18
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Story entitled 'Do'ull Gearr no Cearr' collected from Janet MacIsaac née Currie, Staoinegrib/Stoneybridge, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist on 24 February 1865. The story tells how Niall Mòr MacMhuirich, Clanranald's bard was on Lord MacDonald's farm in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist where it was customary to bring food and a fee for the blacksmith but instead Niall Mòr brought iron and charcoal. The MacDonald's wife fell out with Niall Mòr and chellenged him on what he had brought to which he...
Dates:
1865 and 1875
Typescript of a lecture given by Alan Bold entitled "Art and Action" , March 1965
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Identifier: Coll-1848/24-0029
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Typescript containing the full text of a lecture entitled "Art and Action" given by Alan Bold to the Edinburgh Branch of the Young Communist League in March 1965. It starts as follows: "The function of art is the extension of human consciousness. That statement should satisfy anyone as to why he or she should bother themselves with art. But it won't, and that is why I am here tonight. I want to show you that art is as important in the struggle for communism as politics is, and that serious...
Dates:
March 1965
Typescript of "The Kind of Poetry I Want" by Hugh MacDiarmid, 1960-1962
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Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0207
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Ten-page typescript of a section of Hugh MacDiarmid's poem "The Kind of Poetry I Want", presumably the script for a reading from the poem broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 14 March 1960. The script is enclosed within a first edition of The Kind of Poetry I Want (Edinburgh: K. D. Duval, 1961), inscribed to "Geoffrey Bridson with every high regard and best wishes for 1962, Hugh MacDiarmid". Bridson produced, arranged, and introduced the...
Dates:
1960-1962
Unfinished essay entitled 'The Bards and Bardism of the Highlands', 16 October 1865
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/1
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...
Dates:
16 October 1865