Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, legal name Alexander MacDonald, or, in Gaelic Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, was a Scottish poet, satirist, lexicographer, and memoirist.
Allt Coire Mhuilinn, near Kilchoan, where Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill both farmed and lived with his family while working as a schoolmaster.
David Morier's depiction of the 1745 Battle of Culloden – An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745
Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes: An Aisling, 1883
A memorial marking the location before 1756 of the Mercat Cross, Edinburgh, where the seized copies Alasdair MacDonald's poetry book were publicly burned by the city executioner.
Charles Edward Stuart
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Charles Edward Louis John Sylvester Maria Casimir Stuart was the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart, making him the grandson of James VII and II, and the Stuart claimant to the thrones of Englan
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
…in Scottish Gaelic, the glossary Leabhar a Theagasc Ainminnin (1741). Hearing Alasdair 's Jacobite poetry read aloud was said to have helped persuade Prince Charles Edward Stuart to sail from France to Scotland and begin the Rising of 1745. Alasdair fought as a captain in the Jacobite Army. He was chosen to teach Gaelic to the…
Portrait by Allan Ramsay, 1745
Charles painted as a five year old in 1725 by the court painter Antonio David
Portrait by William Mosman, painted circa 1737
Charles, painted in 1742, by the French court painter Louis Tocqué