Watch the first Gaelic poet to be appointed Scotland's Makar read one of his poems in Gaelic and English The first Gaelic poet has been appointed as Scotland's Makar. Lewis-born Peter Mackay says ...

A new artwork is to be commissioned to celebrate a Gaelic poet whose poems highlighted the impact on rural communities of the Highland Clearances and Crofters' War. Màiri Mhòr nan Oran - Great ...

Dr Mackay was delighted by the welcome he was given by pupils from local Gaelic schools of poems, songs and music at the even marking his appointment. He said: "No one thinks of Edinburgh as a ...

Poetry seemed to flow easily for me because ... Might it be possible then that the Agnew family of Galloway had Gaelic roots? Absolutely, though family lore, recorded in a book in the 1800s ...