Pàdraig MacAoidh (Peter MacKay)
Author

Poems

New World scottish gaelic

Translations: en de

Ann an Cordoba scottish gaelic

Translations: en de

Oighreachd scottish gaelic

Translations: en

An Gearra-Bhall mu Dheireadh scottish gaelic

Translations: en

Odysseus english

An t-Aoidean scottish gaelic

Translations: en de

The Leak english

Translations: gd

Nuair a smaoineachas mi air na tha do-thuigsinneach scottish gaelic

Translations: en de

Ann an Ard-Mhuseaum Bhreatainn scottish gaelic

Translations: en de

Bàta Taigh Bàta scottish gaelic

Translations: en

Pàdraig MacAoidh Peter MacKay
Author

About

* 31.01.1979, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, United Kingdom
lives in: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Pàdraig MacAoidh (Peter MacKay), born 1979, Isle of Lewis, is a writer, academic, broadcaster and native Gaelic speaker from the Outer Hebrides. His texts are influenced by the long and tumultuous history of his birthplace, in which the “names and nouns are relics and scorings of different cultures – Norse, Gaelic, Scottish, Anglo-Saxon”. As such, he writes in Scottish-Gaelic as well as English, and links the traditions of the old languages and the myths and tropes that they transmit, with a present which is marked by constant breaks, a continual changing and remembering.

Mackay has lived in Glasgow, Barcelona, Dublin and Edinburgh and has worked at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, at Trinity College, Dublin, and as a Broadcast Journalist and television news producer for the BBC. He currently works as a lecturer at the University of St. Andrews. In his academic work he has published diverse books on Gaelic, Scottish and Irish poetry and literature. He has translated poems from Spanish, Danish, French and Gaelic into English.

Mackay was nominated for the “Donald Meek” and “Duais Colmchille” Prizes. His poems have been published in diverse magazines.