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Fairies and Folk

In the repertoire of traditional Gaelic beliefs, second sight is undoubtedly the most dominating of them all. It is not merely a matter of giving credence to this distinctive kind of clairvoyance:the...

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Island Poetry

‘Once we made songs to be sung – now we write poetry to be read.’ That statement, made in Gaelic by Donald John MacDonald (1919-1986) of South Uist, sums up the essential difference between the oral...

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