Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, legal name Alexander MacDonald, or, in Gaelic Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, was a Scottish poet, satirist, lexicographer, and memoirist.
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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.
Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair rests in an unknown plot in the cemetery beside the ruins of St. Maelrubha's Roman Catholic Church at Arisaig.Writers born in the 1690s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1698 to 1770 · aged 72
Written about in
10 languages
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