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Pàdraig MacAoidh
Peter Mackay

b. 1979

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Tha Pàdraig MacAoidh na neach-labhairt dùthchasach na Gàidhlig, a bhuineas do dh’Eilean Leòdhais. Tha e na neach-acadaimigeach, sgrìobhadair is craoladair agus tha buaidh iolrachd dualchas cànanach eilean a thùis air a cuid sgrìobhaidh. Thug a MA a-mach à Oilthigh Ghlaschu agus ollamhachd a-mach à Coláiste na Trionóide Baile Àtha Cliath agus rè cursa a chuid obrach, tha e air dreuchdan a choileanadh aig Ionad Bàrdachd Séamus Heane, Ollscoil na Banríona Beul Feirste; Coláiste na Trionóide Baile Àtha Cliath is Coláiste na hOllscoile Baile Àtha Cliath; agus aig Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, far an robh e na sgrìobhadair air mhuinntearas. Tha e air obair neach-naidheachd agus riochaire naidheachdan telebhisein a dhèanamh cuideachd, don BhBC.

‘S e ùghdar monograif air saothair Shomhairle MhicGill-Eain (RIIS, 2010) a th’ ann am Pàdraig, a cho-dheasaich cruinneachaidhean aistean air nua-bhàrdachd Èireannaich is Albannaich is air lictreachas na Gàidhlig Albannaiche. An-dràsta, the e ag obair air leabhar aig Wordsworth is Séamus Heaney, agus the e air deasachadh, an cuideachd Iain S. Mhic a’ Phearsain, An Leabhar Liath, duanaire bàrdachd gaoil is bàrdachd chollaidh, air fhoillseachadh le Luath Press ann an 2016 is a choisinn Duais Dòmhnaill Meek.

Nochd a chuid bàrdachd ann am pamflaid an tòiseach, From Another Island (Clutag Press, 2010), agus anns a’ cho-chruinneachadh Gu Leòr, air fhoillseachadh le Acair ann an 2015.

English
Peter Mackay is a native Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Lewis. He is an academic, writer and broadcaster whose work is influenced by the diverse linguistic heritage of his birthplace. With an MA from Glasgow University and a PhD from Trinity College Dublin, Mackay has worked at the Séamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen’s University Belfast; Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin; and at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, where he was writer in residence. He has also worked as a journalist and television news producer for the BBC.

He is the author of a monograph on the work of Sorley MacLean (RIISS, 2010), and has co-edited collections of essays on modern Irish and Scottish poetry and on Scottish Gaelic literature. He is currently working on a book on Wordsworth and Séamus Heaney, and has edited, with Ian S. MacPherson, An Leabhar Liath / The Light Blue Book, an anthology of Scottish Gaelic love and ‘transgressive’ poetry, published by Luath Press in 2016, and the winner of the Donald Meek Award. 

His own poetry first appeared in a pamphlet, From Another Island (Clutag Press, 2010) and the collection Gu Leòr / Galore, published by Acair in 2015.

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Hai-àidh! #3

May 2023
Am mìos-sa tha Meg Bateman agus Pàdraig MacAoidh a’ còmhradh air ‘Aig an Fhaing’ le Anna Frater agus ‘Duan an Dannsair’ le Flòraidh NicPhàil.
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February 2023
‘S e pod-chraolaidh ùr Leabharlann Bàrdachd na h-Alba a th’ ann an Hai-àidh! Air gach clàr bi dà phìos bhàrdachd air a thaghadh le dà bhàrd (neo cuideigin aig a bheil ùidh ann am bàrdachd). Sa chiad fhear thagh...
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Pàdraig MacAoidh / Peter Mackay

December 2017
Pàdraig MacAoidh / Peter Mackay discusses repressed Scots, journalism versus poetry, and growing up bilingual.
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