Celtic Life – latest issue praises Celtic culture books
Celtic Life International Magazine, vol. 29, no. 1 (February 2015)
Nova Scotian Gaelic poet Lodaidh MacFhionghain (Lewis MacKinnon) publishes the first of a promised six-part series of articles on “what it means to be Celtic” (p. 9).
He is, of course, author of two published collections: most recently, Rudan Mì-bheanailteach is an Cothroman, Dàin / Intangible Possibilities, Poems and, in 2008, Famhair: agus dàin Ghàidhlig eile / Giant: and Other Gaelic Poems.
In this piece, MacKinnon highlights the consensus in Nova Scotia that it is “important to assert the community’s identity in its own linguistic and culturally-based terms.”
Elsewhere in the issue (p. 70), Lewis’s new book gets reviewed as “moving … a thoughtful and deeply personal exploration of the spirit of a modern Gael.”
Also in the reviews section is one of Reeling Roosters and Dancing Ducks: Celtic Mouth Music, calling Heather Sparling’s book “engaging, entertaining, and educational” (p. 70). By the way, you can view any of a series of interviews with Heather Sparling on our YouTube channel (cbupressmedia).
