Books from Birlinn Books from Polygon The Many Worlds of Alexander McCall Smith
 View cart Your account   
Search the Site
 HOME
 SPECIAL OFFER
Gaelic Poetry
Dain do Eimhir    Dain do Eimhir
ISBN:9781846970252
Category: Gaelic Poetry, Gaelic
Author: Sorley MacLean
Publication Date: April 2008
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

BUY NOW
Synopsis:

Written mostly during the 1930s, the sequence consists of forty-eight love poems addressing a universal ‘eimhir’, or woman.


Read more >>

Gaelic Otherworld, The    Gaelic Otherworld, The
ISBN:9781841587332
Category: Gaelic Poetry, Gaelic, Folklore, Cultural Studies
Author: John Gregorson Campbell
Publication Date: May 2008
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock

BUY NOW
Synopsis:

A fantastic volume embracing the supernatural in Gaelic superstition from the mid-nineteenth century.


Read more >>

Moch is Anmoch    Moch is Anmoch
ISBN:9781899863310
Category: Gaelic Poetry, Gaelic
Author: Donald A. MacNeill
Publication Date: February 1998
Format: PB
Price: £6.99
Stock Status: in stock

BUY NOW
Synopsis:

A collection of poetry and song by former Mod Medallist, the late Donald McNeill and other Colonsay bards.


Read more >>

Lasair, An / Flame, The    Lasair, An / Flame, The
ISBN:9781841580920
Category: Gaelic Poetry
Author: (Editor) Ronald Black
Publication Date: January 2001
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock

BUY NOW
Synopsis:

This is the first book ever to be dedicated to the full range and versatility of one of the golden ages of Gaelic culture and features poets of European stature and significance.


Read more >>

Caran An-t-Saoghail / The Wiles of the World    Caran An-t-Saoghail / The Wiles of the World
ISBN:9781874744672
Category: Gaelic Poetry, Gaelic
Author: (Editor) Donald Meek
Publication Date: March 2003
Format: PB
Price: £16.99
Stock Status: in stock

BUY NOW
Synopsis:

The first general anthology of Gaelic verse and song of the nineteenth century to be published since 1879. Including translations, together with notes on sources and themes and an extended introduction.


Read more >>

Duanaire Na Sracaire (Song Book of the Pillagers)    Duanaire Na Sracaire (Song Book of the Pillagers)
ISBN:9781841581811
Category: Gaelic Poetry, Gaelic
Author: (Editors) Meg Bateman and Wilson McLeod
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £20.00
Stock Status: in stock

BUY NOW
Synopsis:

This anthology spans almost a thousand years of Gaelic verse, bringing together for the first time the poetry from the millennium c.600–1600 AD, when Scotland shared its rich culture with Ireland.


Read more >>

Soirbheas / Fair Wind    Soirbheas / Fair Wind
ISBN:9781904598923
Category: Gaelic Poetry, Gaelic
Author: Meg Bateman
Publication Date: May 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

BUY NOW
Synopsis: Soirbheas/Fair Wind is Meg Bateman’s most personal and distinctive work.

Books From Scotland Gaelic Book of the Year 2007                            
Read more >>

Harps' Cry, The / Gair nan Clarsach    Harps' Cry, The / Gair nan Clarsach
ISBN:9781874744139
Category: Gaelic Poetry, Gaelic
Author: (Editors) Colm O Baoill, Meg Bateman
Publication Date: January 1994
Format: PB
Price: £10.99
Stock Status: in stock

BUY NOW
Synopsis:

This anthology gives us a last glimpse of the heroic age in Europe through the resonant poetry of the Gaelic tradition. English translations included.

    
Read more >>

Hymn to a Young Demon    Hymn to a Young Demon
ISBN:9781846970023
Category: Gaelic Poetry, Gaelic
Author: Aonghas MacNeacail
Publication Date: July 2007
Format: PB
Price: £9.99
Stock Status: in stock

BUY NOW
Synopsis: Aonghas MacNeacail’s poetry sweeps to new heights with this collection in both Gaelic and English. 

    
Read more >>

Smuaintean fo Eiseabhal    Smuaintean fo Eiseabhal
ISBN:9781841581088
Category: Gaelic Poetry, Gaelic
Author: Ronald Black
Publication Date: July 2000
Format: PB
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock

BUY NOW
Synopsis:

Encompassing earthy and nautralistic themes, this captivating book of verse captures the extensive works of Domhnall Aonghais Bhain.          


Read more >>


Categories
NEWS ITEM
Life's a Cavalcade launch news
DIARY EVENTS
 
 

  banner#2 banner#3