A’ bheinn luiseanach fhailleanach
Mheallanach lìontach,
Gun choimeas dh’ a fallaing
Air thalamh na Crìosdachd…
—“Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain”, by Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir (Duncan Ban MacIntyre, 1724–1812), one of the greatest #Gaelic poets of the #C18th – born #OTD, 20 March
A 🎂 🧵
1/5
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #18thcentury
“The richness of Donnchadh Bàn’s language becomes a metaphor for the richness of nature... The poem is a song & the music itself becomes a metaphor for the co-existence of different forms of life”
—Meg Bateman on “Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain” for Irish Pages
2/5
https://irishpages.org/in-praise-of-ben-dorain/?v=79cba1185463
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #18thcentury #naturewriting #naturepoetry
“The question remains, whether Praise of Ben Dorain may be read in the 21st century as a poem not only of praise, but also of sorrow, resistance & anger, a permanent protest against the devastation some folk bring upon others”
Prof Alan Riach on Donnchadh Bàn
3/5
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #18thcentury #protest #resistance
How does it begin?
With the piper’s drone
with the coarse fabric of the land…
“Ben Dorain: An Ecopoetic Translation”, HUMANITIES 8/2, 2019
Garry MacKenzie on translating “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” into a 21st-century ecopoem
4/5
https://doi.org/10.3390/h8020113
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #18thcentury #translation #ecopoetry
Portraid Dhonnchaidh Bhàin?
Donnchadh Sneddon, SCOTTISH STUDIES 42/1, 2026
A copy of the poems of Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir (1724–1812) held in the Centre for Research Collections at the University of Edinburgh contains what might be the only extant portrait of the bard himself
5/5
https://open.journals.ed.ac.uk/ScottishStudies/article/view/697
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #18thcentury #portrait #arthistory
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