Donald M. MacAdam

Rev. Donald Marie MacAdam | Dòmhnall Marie MacEamonn (also ‘MacEadhmoin’), SP (3 February 1867, Nova Scotia – 11 August 1924, Sydney, Cape Breton) was a Catholic priest. He contributed Gaelic content to the Catholic journal The Casket. He corresponded with Charles Loch and was one of the co-founders of the Scottish Catholic Society of Canada in 1919.

Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals

Guth na Bliadhna

• [letter of appreciation in prase of the quarterly, GD]; Volume I, Issue 3 (Summer 1904)
• Iain MacDhonnchaidh: ‘Òran a’ Chreidimh’ [poem, GD, transcribed by Donald M. MacAdam, responding to a query by Alexander MacRae], Volume IV, Issue 3 (Summer 1907)

Alba II

• ‘O Chanada’ [article, GD], Issue 3 (17 January 1920)

Resources

• John G. Gibson, Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing: An Historical and Ethnographic Perspective (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017), p. 96.
• Anja Gunderloch, The Gaelic Manuscripts of Glasgow University: A Catalogue (Department of Celtic, University of Glasgow, 2007)