Donald Macphie

Portrait published in ‘An Deò-Grèine’ (Volume VI, Issue 4, 1911), p. 59.

Donald Macphie | Dòmhnall Mac-a-Phì (20 October 1852, Roag, Skye – 1922) came from Skye and for most of his life worked as schoolmaster at Cumbernauld. He served as editor of An Deò-Gréine (1912–1922) and of Blackie’s Gaelic Readers. Anne Loughran has suggested he used the pseudonym ‘Daileach.’

Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals

Guth na Bliadhna

  • ‘Daileach’: ‘Na h-Amadain’ [prose, GD], Volume XVI, Issue 1 (Spring 1919)

An Ròsarnach

  • ‘An Sgoil a Bha ann’ [prose, GD], Vol. II (1918), illustrated by Stewart Carmichael
  • ‘An Dealachadh mu Dheireadh’ [prose, GD], Vol. III (1921)

The Scottish Review

  • ‘Primary Education and the Critics’ [essay, ENG], Issue 73, Volume 37 (Spring 1914)

Resources

  • T. M. Murchison, ‘Macphie, Donald,’ The Companion to Gaelic Scotland (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983)
  • Anne Loughran, ‘Traditional Prose: collections and collectors,’ Gaelic Literature of the Isle of Skye: An Annotated Bibliography (Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, 2018)