Dares Paradise

Poems by Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
Two long poems by eighteenth-century Scottish Gaelic poet, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, revived and reintroduced for twenty-first century Anglophone readers.

Two long poems by eighteenth-century Scottish Gaelic poet, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, revived and reintroduced for twenty-first century Anglophone readers

Little of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdairs biography can be confirmed other than his work as a teacher in Scotlands Ardnamurchan Peninsula and his role as a captain in the 1745 Jacobite Uprising. What we do have is his poetryone volume self-published in 1751, the first nonreligious work to be published in any of the Celtic languages. Dares Paradise presents two long poems by mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, newly translated by Taylor Strickland. In his translation, Stricklandhimself a poettakes a subversive approach, writing in a transatlantic English idiom w