Mary MacKellar | Màiri NicEalair (née Cameron | Chamshron) (1 October 1834 – 7 September 1890) was a poet, scholar, and translator. In 1876, she was appointed Bard to the Gaelic Society of Inverness, to which she also contributed scholarly papers. Her translation of William Edmondstoune Aytoun’s poem ‘The Execution of Montrose’ was posthumously republished by Erskine in An Sgeulaiche.
Her translation of ‘The Execution of Montrose’ was discussed by Malcolm MacFarlane | Calum MacPhàrlain in the essay ‘Bàrdachd an Latha ‘n Diugh V’, Guth na Bliadhna (Autumn 1909).
Publications in Erskine’s Periodicals
- [William Edmondstoune Aytoun]: ‘Bàs Mhont-Rois’ [translation from English, GD], Volume II, Issue 1, Spring 1910
Resources
- Priscilla Scott, ‘With heart and voice ever devoted to the cause’: Women in the Gaelic Movement, 1886–1914′ (PhD dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 2013)