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.
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Dalelia or Dalilea is hamlet on the north shore of Loch Shiel in Acharacle district of Argyll, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Kinlochmoidart is to the north. The a
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
…legal name Alexander MacDonald, or, in Gaelic Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, was a Scottish poet, satirist, lexicographer, and memoirist. He was born at Dalilea and is believed to have been homeschooled before briefly attending university. MacDhòmhnaill was multilingual literacy in the vernacular Scottish Gaelic…
Loch Shiel at Dalelia taken from the pier at looking southeast.