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MacDONALD OF GLENALADALE, JOHN (Iain MacDhòmhnaill), army officer and colonizer; b. 29 Sept. 1742 in Scotland, eldest son of Alexander M’Donald of Glenaladale and Margaret MacDonell of Scothouse (Scotus); d. 28 Dec. 1810 on his estate, Tracadie (lots 35 and 36), P.E.I.
John MacDonald was three years old when his father, Alexander, head of the Glenaladale branch of the Clan MacDonald of Clanranald, joined the standard of Prince Charles, the Young Pretender, at its raising in 1745 on the Glenaladale property at Glenfinnan, Scotland. After the prince’s hopes for a Stuart restoration perished at Culloden, his allies, including the MacDonalds, suffered serious economic reprisals at the hands of the British government. It was nevertheless possible to send young MacDonald in 1756 to the famous Catholic seminary at Regensburg (Federal Republic of Germany), where, as a lay student, he received the thorough grounding in languages and the classics to which his later correspondence so strongly attests. Historians have noted that he could “speak, read and write seven languages” and was accounted “one of the most finished and accomplished young gentlemen of his generation.”
Some time after his return to Scotland in 1761 he became the 8th laird of Glenaladale a
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Bliadhna nan ÒranYear of Song
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Jo Macdonald
Around this time last year BBC Gàidhlig asked Jo Macdonald to select three hundred and thirteen songs for Song for the Day, which would form part of the wider Year of Song project.
How do you select little over three hundred Gaelic songs out of the thousands that are available?
Jo said, "It hasn't been easy, but I made an effort to select songs to represent every area; songs of various kinds, from Òrain Mòr to lullabies and milking songs, epics and spiritual songs, love songs and praise songs, hymns, the odd satirical song, puirt-a-beul, light-hearted humorous songs, songs about the homeland and longing, elegies and laments, songs written by the most famous bards throughout the centuries and songs by sailors and waulking women.
It's hard to believe that the selection is now complete."
Arthur Cormack
Arthur Cormack was born and brought up in the Isle of Skye where he still lives today, in Portree, with his wife, Shona, and their three children, Ruairidh, Eilidh and Iain.
He started singing when he was about eight years old, and won the Comunn Gàidhealach Gold Medal when he was just 18, the youngest male ever to win this coveted prize.
He has recorded several albums, singing solo and singing wi