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The best-known group of bards in Scotland were the members of the MacMhuirich family, who flourished from the 15th to the 18th centuries. The family was centred in the Hebrides , and claimed descent from a 13th-century Irish bard who, according to legend, was exiled to Scotland.
Irish bardic poetry. Bardic poetry is the writings produced by a class of poets trained in the bardic schools of Ireland and the Gaelic parts of Scotland, as they existed down to about the middle of the 17th century or, in Scotland, the early 18th century. Most of the texts preserved are in Middle Irish or in early Modern Irish, however, even ...
Scottish society in the Middle Ages. A French illustration of representatives of the three estates, a cleric, a knight and a worker, which were adopted in the fourteenth century to describe the membership of the Parliament of Scotland. Scottish society in the Middle Ages is the social organisation of what is now Scotland between the departure ...
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, [a] was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide.
Iain Mac Fhearchair. Iain Mac Fhearchair ( John MacCodrum) (1693-–1779) [1] was a Scottish Gaelic -speaking Bard and seanchaidh "who lived and died in the island of North Uist ." [2] Later in his life, Iain served as Chief Bard to the Chief of Clan MacDonald of Sleat. [3]
They often trained in bardic schools, of which a few, like the one run by the MacMhuirich dynasty, who were bards to the Lord of the Isles, existed in Scotland and a larger number in Ireland, until they were suppressed from the seventeenth century.
A makar (/ ˈ m æ k ər / ⓘ) is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as a royal court poet.. Since the 19th century, the term The Makars has been specifically used to refer to a number of poets of fifteenth and sixteenth century Scotland, in particular Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas, who wrote a diverse genre of works in Middle Scots in the ...
They were recognised as a professional class apart from druids and bards, and became, by custom, to a large extent hereditary. The term "bard" is associated with a Brehon family of poets, called Mac an Bháird (Son of the Bard). They were one of the descendants of the ancient tribes of Soghain in the Kingdom of Uí Maine.