The literature of the Highlanders
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THE
LITERATURE OF THE HIGHLANDERS:
A HISTORY OF GAELIC LITERATURE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY.
NIGEL MACNEILL,
Author of “Nenlæ: with other Poems;” “The Highland Hymnal,” etc. Minister of Bedford Church, London.
“ Móra ic senaib bar senscéla. ”—Togail Troi.
INVERNESS:
JOHN NOBLE, CASTLE STREET
1892.
Nigel MacNeill
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
THE GENUINE GAELIC BALLADS.
THE COCHULIN BALLADS.
THE DEIRDRI BALLADS.
THE FINIAN BALLADS.
THE NORSE BALLADS.
MAOL A’ CHLIOBAIN.
IRISH VERSIONS.
ALEXANDER MACDONALD.
THE OSSIANIC QUESTION.
JEROME STONE,
JOHN SMITH, D.D.
JOHN CLARK,
DAVID MACKELLAR.
JOHN MACKAY.
DONALD MATHESON.
LAUCHLAN MACLAUCHLAN.
DUGALD BUCHANAN.
ROBERT MACKAY.
DUNCAN MACINTYRE.
WILLIAM ROSS.
EWEN MACLACHLAN.
JOHN MACLEAN.
EVAN MACCOLL.
JAMES MUNRO.
JOHN MACLACHLAN.
ANGUS MACDONALD.
MARY MACKELLAR.
DUGALD MACPHAIL.
WILLIAM LIVINGSTON.
NEIL MACLEOD.
REV. DONALD MACCALLUM.
DR JOHN MACGREGOR.
MARY MACPHERSON.
WILLIAM MACKENZIE.
DONALD MACRAE.
MARY CLARK.
MARGARET CAMPBELL.
REV. PETER GRANT.
REV. JAMES MACGREGOR, D.D.
REV. JOHN MACDONALD, D.D.
REV. DUNCAN MACDOUGALL.
JOHN MORRISON.
REV. DUNCAN MACCALLUM.
REV. DUNCAN MACLEAN.
MINOR RELIGIOUS POETS.
COLLECTIONS OF RELIGIOUS POETRY.
SCRIPTURE PARAPHRASES.
THE PSALTER.
THE GAELIC BIBLE.
TRANSLATIONS INTO GAELIC.
TRANSLATIONS INTO ENGLISH.
GRAMMARS AND DICTIONARIES.
PROSE WRITERS.
PERIODICALS.
HIGHLAND SOCIETIES.
A GAELIC LAND-LAW REFORM MANIFESTO.
HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY.
INDEX.