John MacFayden | Iain MacPhàidein (20 May 1850, Balivullen, Mull – 24 October 1935, Glasgow) was a poet and author from Mull who spent his adult life working for the Glasgow and South-Western Railway. His writing appeared in two volumes: An t-Eileanach (1890) and Sgeulaiche nan Caol (1902). He received the Bardic Crown, at the National Mòd in Perth (1924), for the poem ‘Aitealan on Iar.’
MacFayden also wrote Gaelic stories for children – they appeared in the volume Companach na Cloinne, edited by Malcolm MacFarlane (Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1913). The story ‘An Dreòlan,’ which appeared in An Sgeulaiche, is included in the volume.
Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals
- ‘Gillean Fir Thapuill’, Volume XII, Issue 1 (Spring 1915)
- ‘Tha ’n Long ’sa Chaladh’ [prose, GD], Volume I, Issue 2 (October 1909)
- ‘Tha ’n Long ’sa Chaladh’ [prose, GD], Volume I, Issue 3 (November 1909)
- ‘Calum Ceard agus a Bhanacheardan’ [prose, GD], Volume II, Issue 2 (Summer 1910)
- ‘An Dreòlan: Sgeul mu Choinneamh na h-Oigridh’ [prose, GD], Volume II, Issue 4 (Winter 1910)
- ‘Briathrachas nam Beag’ [short tales for children, GD], Volume III, Issue 2 (Summer 1911)
Resources
- ‘Iain MacPhàidein, Muile,’ Bliadhna nan Òran (BBC Alba, 2015)
- Lachlan MacKinnon (ed.), ‘Iain MacPhàidein,’ Bàird a’ Chomuinn (1953)