Alexander Cameron

Photograph featuring Iain Moffatt-Pender (left) and Alexander Cameron (right), published in ‘Am Bàrd’ (1926).

Alexander Cameron | Alasdair Camshron (12 April 1848, Inverasdale, Gairloch – 1933, Poolewe), ‘Bàrd Thùrnaig,’ was a poet and songwriter who earnt a living as a sheep manager and smallholder. His writing was brought together in the volume Am Bàrd: Òrain, Sgrìobhaidhean agus Litrichean (Edinburgh, 1926), edited by Iain Moffatt-Pender.

Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals

Alba

  • ‘‘Rann do dh’Alba’ [song, GD], Issue 9 (4 April 1908)

Guth na Bliadhna

  • ‘Rann molaidh do “Ghuth na Bliadhna”’ [song, GD], Volume X, Issue 4 (Autumn 1913)
  • ‘Imrich nan Gàidheal do Thìr-chèin’ [song, GD], Volume XVI, Issue 2 (Summer 1919)

Resources

  • Ronald Black, ‘Alexander Cameron (Alasdair Camshron) 1848–1933,’ An Tuil: Anthology of Twentieth-Century Gaelic Verse (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1999)