- Iain
Mac Fhearchair (John
MacCodrum) (1693-–1779) was a
Scottish Gaelic-speaking Bard and
seanchaidh "who
lived and died in the
island of
North Uist."...
- and met with John
MacCodrum, the
official Bard to the
Chief of Clan
MacDonald of Sleat. As a
result of
their encounter,
MacCodrum made,
according to...
-
followed the
Battle of Culloden. However,
North Uist bard Iain
Mac Fhearchair (John
MacCodrum), the
official poet to the chief,
wrote the
satirical poem "Òran...
- it was
common to
blame the fairies. The
MacCodrum clan of the
Outer Hebrides became known as the "
MacCodrums of the seals" as they
claimed to be descended...
- all of
these have male and
female forms depending on the bearer, e.g. all
Mac-
names become Nic- if the
person is female. Some of the
Scottish Gaelic surnames...
-
Mac Fhearchair (John
MacCodrum), the
famed bard to Sir
James MacDonald of Sleat. In his 1889 book Moidart:
Among the Clanranalds,
Father Charles MacDonald...
- Farquharson' contemporary,
North Uist poet and
seanchaidh Iain
Mac Fhearchair,
alias John
MacCodrum, John
Lorne Campbell explained that when a
Highlander of...
- Shakespeare's 154 sonnets. The
North Uist poet John
MacCodrum, the
official Bard to Sir
Alexander MacDonald of Sleat,
composed poetry criticizing both the...
-
Campbell has written, however, that by the
lifetime of
North Uist Bard John
MacCodrum (1694-1779), the
statement that a
Scottish Gael was "illiterate" meant...
- The
Seasons as well as by
Gaelic "village poets" such as Iain
Mac Fhearchair (John
MacCodrum).
Alasdair and many
other Scottish Gaelic poets of the era produced...
