Clan MacMhuirich: A bardic family

Stories of Scotland

Annie and Jenny

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Jenny and Annie learn about the MacMhuirich bardic family and the significance of bards in the Gaelic dominium. This tremendously fun episode takes us back to Medieval Ireland, to look at the time when the seeds of the MacMhuirich dynasty were sown in Scotland. We recite some English translates of MacMhuirich poetry and look at the stories behind their compositions. References: Robert Crawford, Clan Donald’s Call to Battle At Harlaw (2008), read the full version at: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/clan-donalds-call-battle-harlaw/Elanor Hull, A textbook of Irish Literature (1906).Martin Martin, A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland (1703).Derek Thompson, The MacMhuirich bardic family, The Poetry of Niall MacMhuirich, and Niall Mòr MacMhuirich all published in the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness (1960-1976). Get bonus content on Patreon

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to our Scottish podcast. We have a whole new episode for your ears at last.
0:16.9	This week we bring you warmest regards with a special episode about Gallic bards.
0:23.9	I'm Jenny, a poet so sublime, yet known for my dolphin noises and not my rhymes.
0:30.8	Finding stories in every nook and cranny. I'm an archivist and my name is Annie.
0:40.2	I'm so proud of this. I'm sorry.
0:47.6	On our podcast, you can binge if our poems don't make you cringe. What if they make me cringe, Annie?
0:54.2	Thank you everyone for tuning in to Stories of Scotland. This week we're discussing the Bardic Clan McVurich
0:57.3	and having a wee look at the importance of bards in Scottish history.
1:02.3	Annie, that didn't rhyme at all. What earth? I thought we're going to rhyme for 35 minutes straight.
1:06.6	I'm so sorry, Jenny. I'm so sorry.
1:08.9	I don't think our listeners are at all, so it's all right.
1:12.5	So these are the stories of the classical Gallic bards,
1:16.4	who were the professional poets of the clans.
1:19.7	They were an elite class in Ireland and Scotland,
1:22.7	who kept the genealogy and history of the ruling families they worked for.
1:26.7	So this episode of Stories of Scotland is the stories of Scotland's storytellers.
1:32.6	And these are phenomenal stories in themselves, because Bard's held a very high status in
1:39.2	Gallic society.
1:41.1	If we go back to early medieval Ireland, we begin with an influential, powerful poet class called the Philly.
1:49.6	Technically, the Philly were a higher rank of class than the Bards.
1:54.7	However, these terms become interchangeable in the early modern period.
2:00.1	So, if you want to be the classiest bard, then
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