Pàdraig MacAoidh (Peter MacKay)

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Tha mi ag iarraidh ort creidsinn
gur e seo tobhta
air Loch Sgiopoirt

às an do dh’imrich
do shinn-seanair
o chionn linn:

uinneag gun arabocan,
clachan garbh-shnaighte,
faontraigh.

Tha laimrig gun bhùird
a’ màbachadh
o mhuir gu tràigh

mar chnàimhneach beathaich
a bhàsaich
a-mach à nòs.

Tha mi ag iarraidh
labhairt
mu eilean a chruthachadh:

cuimhne a dh’fhàgadh tu
gun aon sùil a-mhàin
a thoirt air ais.

Ach gu h-àraidh
tha mi ag iarraidh
gun ceannaich thu

còir
m’ ìomhaighean,
mo dhàin.

Pàdraig MacAoidh

Peter MacKay

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* 31.01.1979, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, Velika Britanija
živi v: Edinburgh, Scotland, Velika Britanija

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.

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