In a message dated 13/09/00 12:10:18 AM Central Daylight Time, peter_mcdonald@sftw.com writes: << I have just bought a book Called "Highland Songs of the '45".. by John Lorne Campbell (1933). It is written in Gaelic with the English translation (with acknowledged mistakes) on the opposite side. The preface says it represents only a small portion of the large amount of Gaelic political poetry between the years of 1640-1750. Alexander Macdonald was the principal Highland Jacobite poet......... >> A great book, or many books of Gaelic poetry are the works of Sorly MacLean who translated his own poems to the English and thus you get the proper feel of what the poet wanted to say. He was one of the founders of the University on Skye. Dave