The sonorous verse of Duncan Ban MacIntyre can now be heard on your phone any time you visit the Scottish Poetry Rose Garden in Glasgow’s Queen’s Park.
Friends of Queen’s Park invited Alan Riach and Allan MacDonald to mark his 300th anniversary last year, and they provided a remarkable open air music and poetry double act in the garden, presenting extracts both in the original Gaelic and in English translation.
Island Voices were on hand to film the event, and we’re delighted that visitors can now access the recording in situ through these displayed QR codes, and so get a taste again of a magical occasion.
Queen’s Park will be humming again with snippets of Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain…
Hi Gordon
Wouldn’t it be great if they would install the QR codes at the Duncan Ban MacIntyre monument on the hillside South of Dalmally. Such a shame that the main road was re-routed closer to Loch Awe and the former road is now little more than a track, but what a splendid monument.
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Tìoraidh an drà sta
Simon
Simon Davies
Grogarry Cottage,
Isle of South Uist,
Western Isles,
HS8 5RR
Tel 01870620458
Mob 07740365072
Interesting idea, Simon!