of the old men who was fishing for cuddies said to him: 'Won't you give your opinion of us now, Alasdair?' 'I will do that,' he said; and he said to them: Gaelic naming conventions The poet's Gaelic name means "Alasdair, son of the Reverend Alasdair". His father, also named Alasdair, was known as Maighstir Alasdair ("Master Alexander") which was then the way of referring to a clergyman in Scottish Gaelic. In English, Maighstir Alasdair was known as the "Reverend Alexander MacDonald". References Further reading Edited by Eberhard Bort (2011), Tis Sixty Years Since: The 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh and the Scottish Folk Revival, Grace Note Publishing John Lorne Campbell (1984), Canna; The Story of a Hebridean Island, Oxford University Press. John Lorne Campbell (1979), Highland Songs of the Forty-Five, Arno Press, New York City Charles MacDonald (2011), Moidart: Among the Clanranalds, Birlinn Press Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (2020), 'Bìrlinn Chlann Raghnaill: Long a fuair foscadh in Éirinn', COMHARTaighde 6: Derick S. Thomson (1987), The Companion to Gaelic Scotland, (Blackwell Reference 1987), External links Findagrave Memorial for Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair Poetry on Wikisource (in Scottish Gaelic) Digitised version of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair's Ais-Eiridh na Sean Chánoin Albannaich / The resurrection of the ancient Scottish language, 1751 at the National Library of Scotland. Contains a Preface in and literary translations from English, plus original poetry in both Latin and Scottish Gaelic. As Described by the "Clan Donald Society of Edinburgh" "Bards of the 'Forty-Five" The Poems of Mac Mhaighistir Alasdair (In Gaelic) (Archived 2009-10-25) Allt an t-Siùcar performed by Jenna Chuimeanach, 2020. Not Burns – Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair! by Alan Riach, The National: The Newspaper that Supports an Independent Scotland, 11, February 2016. The Scottish Poetry Library interviews Alan Riach about Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, June 2016. Willies, ghillies and horny Highlanders: Scottish Gaelic writing has a filthy past by Peter MacKay, University of St. Andrews, The Conversation, 24 October 2017. A great Scot, too aft forgot: Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair by Hamish MacPherson, The National: The Newspaper that Supports an Independent Scotland, 13, January 2020. 1698 births 1770 deaths 18th-century diarists 18th-century lexicographers 18th-century Scottish Gaelic poets 18th-century Scottish poets Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Glasgow Alasdair Clan MacDonald of Clanranald Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism Converts to Roman Catholicism from Presbyterianism Jacobite poets Jacobite propagandists Jacobite military personnel of