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Home / Publications / Books / Annual Volumes / Dràma na Gàidhlig

Dràma na Gàidhlig

Annual Volume 50 (2020)

DRÀMA NA GÀIDHLIG
Ceud Bliadhna air an Àrd-ùrlar 
A Century of Gaelic Drama

Edited by Michelle Macleod

Published in: Paperback, 376 pages 
By: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Glasgow, April 2021 
Price: £19.95 
ISBN 9781906841416

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Na Duaisean Litreachais 2021
The Gaelic Literature Awards 2021
An Leabhar Neo-fhicsein as Fheàrr 2021 (Duais Dhòmhnaill Meek)
Best Non-fiction Book 2021 (Donald Meek Prize)

Compared to Gaelic poetry, the history of Gaelic theatre has not been a particularly long one, with the first examples appearing in the eighteenth century. However, drama in Gaelic began to thrive in the twentieth century, and modern Gaelic drama has the power to break down barriers and to touch people across linguistic and cultural divides.

This collection is a celebration of this often-overlooked genre, bringing together eight Gaelic plays from the start of the twentieth century to the present day. Accessible to non-Gaelic speakers, this book contains English translations as well as an introduction to the history of Gaelic theatre, and to the playwrights whose skill and commitment to their art deserves much wider recognition.


Contents
Introduction

Rèiteach Mòraig – Iain N. MacLeòid
Morag’s Betrothal – John N. MacLeod

Am Fear a Chaill a Ghàidhlig – Iain MacCormaig
The Man Who Lost His Gaelic – Iain MacCormick

Ceann Cropic – Fionnlagh MacLeòid
Ceann Cropic – Finlay MacLeod

Tog Orm Mo Speal – Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn
Give Me My Scythe – Iain Crichton Smith

Òrdugh na Saorsa – Tormod Calum Dòmhnallach
The Order of Release – Norman Malcolm MacDonald

Sequamur – Dòmhnall S. Moireach (Gaelic by Catrìona Dunn)
Sequamur – Donald S. Murray

Scotties – Muireann Kelly with Frances Poet

Bana-Ghaisgich – Màiri Nic’IlleMhoire
Heroines – Mairi Morrison

Cover design: Mark Blackadder.

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Retrieving and Renewing: a poem for ASL

   Forget your literature? – forget your soul.
   If you want to see your country hale and whole
   Turn back the pages of fourteen hundred years.
   Surely not? Oh yes, did you expect woad and spears?
   In Altus Prosator the bristly blustery land
   Bursts in buzz and fouth within a grand
   Music of metrical thought. Breathes there the man
   With soul so dead—? Probably! But a scan
   Would show his fault was ignorance:
   Don’t follow him. Cosmic circumstance
   Hides in nearest, most ordinary things.
   Find Scotland – find inalienable springs.
  Edwin Morgan, 2004

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