Angus Robertson | Aonghas MacDhonnchaidh (6 October 1871, Breakish, Skye – 21 October 1948, Bearsden) was born and raised in Skye. He later moved to Glasgow where he worked for a publishing firm, and became involved in the cultural life of the city, including the activities of An Comunn Gàidhealach.
He is the author of one of the two earliest Gaelic novels, An t-Ogha Mór (The Great Grandchild, 1913; illustrated by Hugh Munro). Extracts from the novel initially appeared in An Sgeulaiche, and Erskine reviewed it in Guth na Bliadhna (Autumn 1913). Apart from fiction, Robertson also wrote poetry, and a collection of his verse appeared in the 1940 volume Cnoc an Fhradhairc. He translated John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem ‘The Pipes at Lucknow’ into Gaelic. His essays appeared in Children of the Fore-World (1933), again with illustrations by Hugh Munro.
Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals
- ‘Sanas bho Thìr-nan-Òg’ [prose, GD], Volume VIII, Issue 3 (Summer 1911)
- ‘The Celtic Horoscope’ [essay, ENG], Volume VIII, Issue 4 (Autumn 1911)
- ‘Neil Munro: An Appreciation’ [essay, ENG], Volume IX, Issue 1 (Winter 1912)
- John Greenleaf Whittier: ‘A’ Phiobmhor aig Lucgnodh’ [poetry, GD; translation by Aonghas MachDhonnachaidh], Volume IX, Issue 3 (Summer 1912)
- ‘Henry Whyte (“Fionn”)’ [obituary, ENG], Volume X, Issue 1 (Winter 1913)
- ‘Iain Ruairidh, Mo Cheist!’ [prose, GD], Volume I, Issue 1 (September 1909)
- ‘Mac Fhraing mu Dheireadh’ [prose, GD], Volume I, Issue 2 (October 1909)
- ‘Ceòl nan Claidheamh Dearga’ [prose, GD], Volume I, Issue 4 (December 1909)
- ‘Why the Land?’ [essay, ENG], Issue 73, Volume 37 (Spring 1914)
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