Highlight Talk - Peter MacKay on Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair

Peter MacKay/Pàdraig MacAoidh poet, senior lecturer (University of St. Andrews), broadcaster and, since 2024, Scotland's Makar, considers, as a Scottish poet, not just a Gaelic one, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair. The greatest Gaelic poet of the 18th century, Gaelic tutor to Bonnie Prince Charlie, his Jacobite vehemence, and sexual explicitness (exceeding that, for some 19th century critics, of Burns or even Rochester), which meant that his work was subjected to political and moral censure in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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