The Light Blue Book: 500 Years of Gaelic

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  • ISBN 9781910745472
  • Weight: 380g
  • Dimensions: 144 x 186mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Dec 2016
  • Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
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Dr Peter Mackay was selected as one of the 10 New Generation Thinkers by BBC Radio 3. He has devoted his studies to Scottish and Irish poetry beginning with his MA from Glasgow University and PhD from Trinity College Dublin. Since his university days he has worked at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Queens University Belfast Trinity College Dublin University College Dublin Sabhal Mòr Ostaig and he currently holds a position at University of St Andrews. Mackay has published several books on contemporary Irish and Scottish poetry and his own poetry and short stories have appeared in many collections. Iain MacPherson first studied French Language and Literature in Canada before specialising in Scottish Gaelic at Sabhal Mór Ostaig. There he dedicated his time to textual analysis of poems and songs. MacPherson is currently a lecturer at the Irish & Celtic Studies at the University of Ulster where he composed a corpus of Western Canadian Scottish Gaelic song-poems.