Make sure you read Alan Raich's detailed account of his reasons for undertaking new translations of Praise of Ben Dorain and The Birlinn of Clanranald in The National, and then buy the pamphlets here. Praise of Ben Dorain is a register of loss: not a praise poem for a chief, hero, leader or clan, but a…
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Alan Riach discusses his translations of Praise of Ben Dorain and The Birlinn of Clanranald in ‘The National’
