Satire had an important social function in medieval Ireland and poet Conchobhar Ruadh Mac Con Midhe knew how to use it ...

The route will take visitors from the south to the north of the island, discovering the works of renowned Gaelic poets along the way.

and a large amount of Gaelic poetry. Some of the verse was by well-known figures, such as Jacobite poet Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair. Other works were found to have been composed by Gaelic ...

Scotland’s first-ever Gaelic Poetry Path has been launched on the Isle of Skye. Slighe nam Bàrd will provide a poetic pathway around the island, aiming to introduce local, national, and ...

It is about Ossian, a Scottish poet from the third century who was dubbed the “Homer of the north”. His epic Gaelic poems, translated into English by James Macpherson, caught the imagination ...

Aunt Julia The subject of this poem is Norman MacCaig's Aunt Julia. She lived in a croft on a small island in the Outer Hebrides, speaking no English, only her native Gaelic language. Basking ...

Scotland’s first-ever Gaelic Poetry Path has been launched on the Isle of Skye. Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture, has launched the path today (Friday) to coincide ...

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture, has launched Scotland’s first-ever Gaelic Poetry Path.