Hector MacLean MacDougall

Photograph published in ‘The Celtic Annual’ (1912), p. 33.

Hector MacLean MacDougall | Eachann MacDhùghaill (28 March 1880, Coll – 27 March 1954) was a poet, playwright, prose writer, and editor. He jointed the police in Glasgow and achieved the rank of Inspector within the Marine Division. He received the Bardic Crown, at the National Mòd in Inverness (1936), for the poem ‘An Càrn’. He also wrote plays, including An Gaol a Bheir Buaidh (1912), Coir Samhna air Leannan (1912), and Mar Dh’aisigeadh Dhi a’ Ghàidhlig. His column, ‘Litir Eachainn,’ was published in the magazine An Gàidheal, and he wrote a Gaelic column for Weekly Scotsman, entitled ‘Highland Echoes,’ until 1953.

Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals

Guth na Bliadhna

  • ‘An Ceilteach agus an Sacsonnach an Albainn’ [essay; GD], Volume IX, Issue 3 (Summer 1912)
  •  ‘Somhairle Mòr Mac Ghille-Bhride’ [essay; GD], Volume X, Issue 2 (Spring 1913)
  •  ‘A’ Bhraisd Lathurnach’, Volume IX, Issue 2 (Summer 1914)
  • ‘Cath Gharbhaich’ [essay; GD], Volume XII, Issue 2 (Summer 1915)
  • ‘Gillean na Sgorra’ [prose; GD], Volume XIV, Issue 2 (Summer 1917)
  • ‘Ar Dleas do’n Ghàidhlig’ [essay; GD], Volume XVI, Issue 2 (Summer 1919)
  • ‘Na Connallaich’ [prose; GD], Volume XVII, Issue 4 (Winter 1920)
  • ‘Deagh-Litreachas: Eas Mòr na Glomain’ [prose; GD; series ‘Deagh-Litreachas’], Volume XVIII, Issue 2 (Summer 1921)
  • ‘Am Mòd’ [essay; GD], Volume XVIII, Issue 4 (Winter 1921)
  • ‘Ainnir a’ Cheò’ [poetry; GD], Volume XIX, Issue 1 (Winter 1923)
  • ‘Tobar Nighean an Righ’ [prose; GD], Volume XIX, Issue 1 (Winter 1923)
  • ‘Nemo me impune Lacessit’ [article; GD], Volume XIX, Issue 3 (Summer 1924)
  • ‘Am Prionsa is am Fàinne’ [prose, GD; based on Louis Couperus], Volume XIX, Issue 4 (Autumn 1924)
  • ‘Am Fiosaiche Finneach’ [prose, GD], Volume XX, Issue 1 (Winter 1924)
  • ‘Fàilte is Furan’ [poetry, GD], Volume XX, Issue 1 (Winter 1924)
  • ‘An Tionach agus na Mèirlich’ [prose, GD], Volume XX, Issue 2 (Spring 1925)

An Sgeulaiche

  • ‘An Gaol gun Mheirg’ [prose, GD], Volume I, Issue 5 (January 1910)
  • ‘Naigheachd na Sgeire Glaise’ [prose, GD], Volume II, Issue 1 (Spring 1910)
  • ‘Dioghaltas gun Diu’ [prose, GD], Volume II, Issue 4 (Winter 1910)
  • ‘Am Bodha Gorm’ [prose; GD], Volume III, Issue 2 (Summer 1911)

An Ròsarnach

  • ‘Cath-Chuairt Eideird Bhruis an Èirinn’ [essay, GD], Volume II (1918), illustrated by Stewart Carmichael
  • ‘Mac Bheatha is Crùn Albann’ [essay, GD], Volume III (1921),
  • illustrated by Stewart Carmichael
  • ‘Sgeul Neònach’ [prose; GD], Volume IV (1930), illustrated by Stewart Carmichael

Alba II

  • ‘Rann Fàilteachaidh’ [poetry, GD], Issue I (3 January 1920)
  • ‘Comunn Ùr Thobar-Mhoire’ [letter, GD], Issue 9 (29 February 1920)
  • ‘Cunntas anns a’ Ghàidhlig’ [letter, GD], Issue 10 (6 March 1920)
  • ‘Co-Bhanntachd eadar Cat is Cù’ [letter & poem, GD], Issue 14 (3 April 1920)
  • ‘An do Dh’fhalbh na Bàird?’ [letter, GD], Issue 17 (10 July 1920)
  • ‘Aobhar is Buil’ [article, GD], Issue 23 (May 1921)
  • ‘Ro-sgeul an Eich Uidheir’ [prose, GD], Issue 27 (September 1921)
  • ‘Loch Fuath-bhlàth’ [prose, GD], Issue 28 (October 1921)
  • ‘Loch Fuath-bhlàth’ [prose, GD], Issue 29 (November 1921)
  • ‘Cat a’ mhì-àigh’ [prose, GD], Issue 30 (December 1921)

The Pictish Review

  • ‘Tionndadh na h-Uarach’ [article, GD], Issue 4, Volume I (February 1928)

Resources

  • Lachlan MacKinnon (ed.), ‘Eachann MacDhùghaill,’ Bàird a’ Chomuinn (1953)
  • T. M. Murchison, ‘Eachann MacDhùghaill,’ Gairm 8 (1954)