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Rev. Duncan B. Blair (1815-1893) used to be a superb linguist, an exceptional poet and a religious guy. “As a correct author of Gaelic he had no superior,” espoused A. Maclean Sinclair. Blair composed sacred and secular poems, laments and songs and prose, a lot of that have been released in Mac-Talla, the well-known Gaelic newspaper released in Sydney, Nova Scotia. between his contributions to Mac-Talla have been a sequence of essays at the Highland Clearances. Blair’s poems were studied and provided somewhere else through the years, yet much less is understood approximately his prose. Now, transcribed within the unique Gaelic with English translations, Fògradh, Fàisneachd, Filidheachd / Parting, Prophecy, Poetry comprises Blair’s articles in regards to the Clearances, an account of a 16th-century seer who a few say foretold of the Clearances, essays approximately Blair’s travels round the Maritimes and Ontario and a couple of his poems, all as released in Mac-Talla.

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