Malcolm MacRae

Malcolm MacRae | Calum MacRath (1882, Tote, Skye – 1938) was a poet and signer from Skye. Later in his life, he moved to Glasgow. He received the Bardic Crown for the poem ‘Cuairt Mhaidne a’ Bhuachaille’ at the National Mòd in Oban (1926).

Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals

Guth na Bliadhna

• ‘An t-Eilean Sgiathanach’ [poetry, GD], Volume XVI, Issue 3 (Autumn 1919)

An Ròsarnach

• ‘Aisling’ [poetry, GD], Vol. II (1918)

Alba II

• ‘Duanag nan Seòladair’ [song, GD], Issue 23 (May 1921)

Resources

• Anne Loughran, ‘Traditional poets and songmakers,’ Gaelic Literature of the Isle of Skye: An Annotated Bibliography (Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, 2018)