Camille Le Mercier d’Erm

Unattributed photo, located by ‘Éditions Mille et une vies’ (http://www.editions1001vies.fr/), used with their kind permission.

Camille Le Mercier d’Erm | Kamilh ar Merser a Erm (12 November 1888, Niort – 18 August 1978, Dinard) was a poet, publisher, historian, and Breton activist. He founded the Parti Nationaliste Breton in 1911 and the newspaper Breizh Dishual. His bardic name was ‘Kammermor’. He composed a long poem commemorating the Easter Rising in Ireland: Irlande à jamais, ode aux martyrs de 1916.

Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals

The Scottish Review

  • ‘The Renaissance of Brittany’ [essay, ENG; translated by Ithel ab Morgan], Issue 95, Volume 42 (Autumn 1919). As to the identity of ‘Ithel ab Morgan’, a festschrift for Le Mercier d’Erm, L’œuvre littéraire et bretonne de Camille Le Mercier d’Erm (1935), mentions him as a Welsh writer and quotes an article by him from ‘a Welsh newspaper, 1919.’ No other information is given.

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