Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival

Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival

Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival focuses in expert detail on the “other” great twentieth-century Scottish Gaelic poet and intellectual. Thomson’s poetry ranks with Sorley MacLean’s as among the best in the Gaelic language, and he contributed to the preservation and development of the language as an editor, journalist, scholar, and activist. As well as founding and steering the most important modern Gaelic magazine, Gairm, he instigated a number of ventures aimed at promoting Gaelic and had major impact on Gaelic studies as an academic subject.

Petra Johana Poncarova

• Edinburgh University Press
• 9781399501194
• 208 pages
• Hardback
• United Kingdom
• Literary studies: from c 1900 -