Scottish Catholic poets

The list Scottish Catholic poets includes Muriel Spark, George Mackay Brown, John Barclay (poet), Allan MacDonald (poet) and Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair. The list consists of 17 members.

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Muriel Spark

British writer

Overview: Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE, CLit, FRSE, FRSL (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist.

Date of birth: 1 February 1918

Date of death: 13 April 2006

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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21st-century British women writers 715T

20th-century British women writers 1,321T

20th-century Scottish poets 107T
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George Mackay Brown

Poet

Overview: George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996) was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist, whose work has a distinctly Orcadian character. He is considered one of the great Scottish poets of the ...

Date of birth: 17 October 1921

Date of death: 13 April 1996

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Claddagh Records artists 54T

20th-century British male writers 1,407T

Scottish male poets 103T
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John Barclay (poet)

Scottish writer

Overview: John Barclay (28 January 1582 – 15 August 1621) was a Scottish writer, satirist and neo-Latin poet.

Date of birth: 1582

Date of death: 15 August 1621

Age: 39 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Writer

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17th-century Scottish novelists 1T

Members of the Lincean Academy 97T

17th-century novelists 6T
4.

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat

Scottish Jacobite and Chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat (1667–1747)

Overview: Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat (c. 1667 – 9 April 1747, London), nicknamed the Fox, was a Scottish Jacobite and Chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat, known for his feuding and changes of allegiance. In 1715 ...

Date of birth: 5 January 1667

Date of death: 1747

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Politician

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Lords Lovat 15T

Peers created by James II (1689–1701) 9T

Scottish people executed for treason against the United Kingdom 5T
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Ailean a' Ridse MacDhòmhnaill

Scottish-Canadian bard and seanchaidh (1794–1868)

Overview: Allan The Ridge MacDonald (1794 Allt an t-Srathain, Lochaber, Scotland - 1 April 1868 Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada) was a Scottish-Canadian Bard and Seanchaidh. He remains a highly important ...

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Iain Lom

Scottish Gaelic poet

Overview: John MacDonald, known as Iain Lom (c. 1624–c. 1710) was a Scottish Gaelic poet.

Date of birth: 1624

Date of death: 1710

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Poet

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Walter Kennedy (poet)

Overview: Walter Kennedy (ca. 1455 – c.1508), younger brother of John Kennedy, 2nd Lord Kennedy of Dunure. Clan Kennedy. He was parson of Douglas who acquired Glentig in 1504 from John Wallace, and married Christian ...

Date of birth: 1455

Date of death: 1508

Age: 52 (age at death)

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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16th-century male writers 924T

16th-century Scottish poets 27T

Middle Scots poets 15T
8.

Mo rùn geal òg

Overview: "Mo rùn geal òg" (My fair young love), alternately known as "Cumha do dh'Uilleam Siseal" (Lament for William Chisholm) is a Scottish Gaelic lament written by Christina Fergusson for her husband, William ...

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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18th-century Scottish Gaelic poets 12T

Scottish Gaelic women poets 9T

People of the Jacobite rising of 1745 46T
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Eddie Linden

Scottish poet and editor

Overview: Edward Sean Linden (born John Edward Glackin; 5 May 1935 – 19 November 2023) was a Scottish poet, literary magazine editor and political activist. From 1969 to 2002, he published and edited the poetry ...

Date of birth: 5 May 1935

Date of death: 19 November 2023

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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Scottish LGBT poets 6T

British gay writers 210T

21st-century English male writers 563T
10.

John Farquharson (Jesuit)

Scottish Jesuit priest and folk hero

Overview: John Farquharson (1699–1782), was a Scottish Jesuit.

Date of birth: 1699

Date of death: 1782

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

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People from Marr 30T

18th-century Jesuits 41T

Scottish Jesuits 15T
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Allan MacDonald (poet)

British priest and writer

Overview: Father Allan MacDonald (Scottish Gaelic Maighstir Ailein) (25 October 1859, Fort William, Scotland – 8 October 1905, Eriskay) was a Roman Catholic priest, poet, folklore collector, and activist from ...

Date of birth: 25 October 1859

Date of death: 8 October 1905

Age: 45 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Folklorist

Gender: Male

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19th-century Scottish Gaelic poets 9T

Scottish male poets 103T

20th-century Scottish poets 107T
12.

Angus Peter Campbell

Scottish poet, novelist, journalist, broadcaster and actor

Overview: Angus Peter Campbell (Scottish Gaelic: Aonghas P(h)àdraig Caimbeul; born 1952) is a Scottish award-winning poet, novelist, journalist, broadcaster and actor.

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Writer

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21st-century Scottish Gaelic poets 11T

Scottish Gaelic novelists 6T

Uist 4T
13.

Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair

Scottish poet, lexicographer, political writer and memoirist

Overview: Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c. 1698–1770), legal name Alexander MacDonald, or, in Gaelic Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, was a Scottish war poet, satirist, lexicographer, political writer and memoirist ...

Date of birth: 1695

Date of death: 1770

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Educator

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Converts to Roman Catholicism from Presbyterianism 5T

Clan MacDonald of Clanranald 2T

Jacobite poets 7T
14.

William Dunbar

Scottish poet and civil servant

Overview: William Dunbar (born 1459 or 1460 – died by 1530) was a Scottish makar poet active in the late fifteenth century and the early sixteenth century. He was closely associated with the court of King James ...

Date of birth: 1459

Age: 565

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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16th-century male writers 901T

15th-century Scottish poets 6T

16th-century Scottish poets 23T
15.

George Scott-Moncrieff

Scottish author

Overview: George Irving Scott-Moncrieff (9 April 1910 – 11 March 1974) was a Scottish novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, editor, and author of several well-known books on Scotland.

Date of birth: 1910

Date of death: 1974

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Journalist

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Sìleas na Ceapaich

Scottish, Writer

Overview: Sìleas na Ceapaich (also known as Cicely Macdonald of Keppoch, Silis of Keppoch, Sìleas MacDonnell or Sìleas Nic Dhòmhnail na Ceapaich) was a Scottish poet. She lived between c.1660 and 1729.

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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17th-century Scottish Gaelic poets 7T

18th-century Scottish Gaelic poets 12T

Scottish Gaelic women poets 9T
17.

Dòmhnall Iain Dhonnchaidh

Scottish war poet, philosopher, and folklorist

Overview: Donald John MacDonald, (Scottish Gaelic: Dòmhnall Iain Dhonnchaidh) (lit. "Donald Ian Duncan", fig. "Donald Ian, son of Duncan") legally Dòmhnaill Iain MacDhòmhnaill (7 February 1919 in Peninerine, South ...

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