About this Book

A collection of 10 favourite Gaelic poems and songs – love poems and hymns, sea ditties and war poems, lullabies and elegies – many translated into English for the first time. Selected by Peter Mackay and Jo MacDonald, and including public nominations, these poems give a multi-layered taste of the full richness of Gaelic literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. 

Cruinneachadh de 100 dàn agus òran Gàidhlig de dh’iomadh seòrsa agus o iomadh linn – nam measg bàrdachd gaoil agus laoidhean, òrain mara agus òrain cogaidh, tàlaidhean agus marbhrainn. Air an taghadh le Pàdraig MacAoidh agus Jo NicDhòmhnaill, le molaidhean an t-sluaigh, tha an cruinneachadh seo a’ toirt blasad de shàr-bheartas litreachas na Gàidhlig.

Poems by…

Meg Bateman • Anna C. Frater • Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir • Somhairle MacGill-Eain/Sorley MacLean • Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair • aonghas macneacail • Ruaraidh MacThòmais/Derick Thomson • Màiri Mhòr nan Òran • Sìleas na Ceapaich • Iseabail Ní Mheic Chailein • Uilleam Ros / William Ross • and many many more

Reviews:

100 favourite Gaelic Poems/Dàn As Fhèarr Leinn would appeal to any dispensation, to any disposition with a capacity for the passions and delicate senses of loss, resolution, festive release, tragic lament, healthy derisive laughter, the whole phantasmagorical cornucopia of poetic possibilities – Alan Riach, The National