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Beinn Bhuidhe, the yellow mountain. Lochan Dòbhrain, the little loch of the otter. Beinn na Seilg, the mountain of the hunt. Each name preserves a different way of noticing.

‘Spiorad aird nam Murchan Part 33 - Reaffirmation: a longing for place’

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#Toponymy
Adventures in Harlosh, Skye
October 30, 2026 at 7:05 AM
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Keeping up with this and am on Day 551! When I go back to #Scotland there better be #otters in a shop somewhere! #ScottishGaelic #Scottish #Gaelic #dobhrain
Scottish Gaelic words Otters in the shop
October 27, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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Thank you for glimpse! and for the reminder of a friend: Otter and fish, Chi Ro page, Book of Kells, Old Library of Trinity College Dublin. Irish names (I had to look these up, quietly):
madadh uisce, dobharchú, cú dobhráin
Otter and fish, detail from Chi Ro page, Book of Kells, Old Library of Trinity College Dublin. A dark ink otter has a salmon in its mouth, inside a yellow curved motif with small red dots in the interior space around the otter. Detail image includes other portions of surrounding areas of design in illuminated manuscript (late 8th - early 9th century)
October 21, 2026 at 5:50 PM
am-broc.bsky.social
Tha mi air trèana air Loidhne na Gàidhealtachd an Iar air Beinn Dobhrain fhèin!

Is tha mi ag èisteachd ri Donnachadh Bàn na h-Èireann (actually, Alasdair mac Mhaighistir Alasdair na h-Èireann) Phil Lynott a' cluich "Suicide" (Lizzy "Live and Dangerous", 1978)

"Don't that make you wanna boogie!"
Dealbh de Brian Robertson (clì), Phil Lynott (meadhan) agus Scott Gorham (deas)
April 4, 2026 at 9:02 AM
joebreathnach.bsky.social
Ar siúl anocht! Féile na mBan ar TG4 do Lá Fhéile Bríde … Is féile deireadh seachtaine í Féile na mBan ina mbíonn mná i mbun ealaíne, plé agus ceiliúrtha agus tá féile i mbliana ar siúl i mBun Dobhráin ag tabhairt onóir d’oidhreacht agus do spiorad Bhríde.
Féile na mBan ar TG4 le haghaidh Lá Fhéile Bríde
Beidh sé sin á cheiliúradh sa chlár Féile na mBan, clár siamsaíochta a chraolfar Dé Luain saoire bainc 2 Feabhra ar TG4, agus cuirfear fáilte roimh thús an
extrag.ie
February 2, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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Féile na mBan ar TG4 do Lá Fhéile Bríde … Is féile deireadh seachtaine í Féile na mBan ina mbíonn mná i mbun ealaíne, plé agus ceiliúrtha agus tá féile i mbliana ar siúl i mBun Dobhráin ag tabhairt onóir d’oidhreacht agus do spiorad Bhríde. extrag.ie/2026/01/31/s...
Féile na mBan ar TG4 le haghaidh Lá Fhéile Bríde
Beidh sé sin á cheiliúradh sa chlár Féile na mBan, clár siamsaíochta a chraolfar Dé Luain saoire bainc 2 Feabhra ar TG4, agus cuirfear fáilte roimh thús an
extrag.ie
February 1, 2026 at 3:26 PM
joebreathnach.bsky.social
Féile na mBan ar @tg4.bsky.social do Lá Fhéile Bríde … Is féile deireadh seachtaine í Féile na mBan ina mbíonn mná i mbun ealaíne, plé agus ceiliúrtha agus tá féile i mbliana ar siúl i mBun Dobhráin ag tabhairt onóir d’oidhreacht agus do spiorad Bhríde. extrag.ie/2026/01/31/s...
Féile na mBan ar TG4 le haghaidh Lá Fhéile Bríde
Beidh sé sin á cheiliúradh sa chlár Féile na mBan, clár siamsaíochta a chraolfar Dé Luain saoire bainc 2 Feabhra ar TG4, agus cuirfear fáilte roimh thús an
extrag.ie
January 31, 2026 at 6:31 PM
cammiebasseri.bsky.social
Droichid na Sióg, Bóthar na Trá ar an Tulach, Finner, Bun Dobhráin, Co. Dhún na nGall, Éire
Fairy Bridges, Tullan Strand Rd, Finner, Bundoran, Co. Donegal, Ireland. Natural arches carved into the cliffs by the relentless force of the Atlantic Ocean.
April 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
asls.org.uk
How does it begin?
With the piper’s drone
with the coarse fabric of the land…

“Ben Dorain: An Ecopoetic Translation”, HUMANITIES 8/2, 2019

Garry MacKenzie on translating “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” into a 21st-century ecopoem
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Abstract In this article, I reflect on my own practice in translating Duncan Bàn Macintyre’s eighteenth-century Gaelic poem, Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain, into a twenty-first century ‘ecopoem’. Macintyre’s Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain has been praised for its naturalism. My translation of this long poem emphasises the immediacy and biological specificity of Macintyre’s descriptions. I explore how the act of translation might intersect with contemporary ecological concerns. My poem is not simply a translation, but incorporates Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain into a new work which juxtaposes a free English version of Macintyre’s work with original material concerned with contemporary research into deer behaviour and ideas of ecological interconnectedness, including biosemiotics and Timothy Morton’s ‘dark ecology’. This article is a reflection on my production of a twenty-first century excavation and reimagining of Macintyre’s Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain. I consider how the difficulties of translation might be turned into imaginative opportunities, and explore how translation has the potential to function as exposition and expansion of an original text, in order to create a poem which is itself an ecosystem, comprising of multiple ecological, cultural and political interactions. Keywords: ecopoetics; translation; Gaelic poetry; Scottish poetry; mountains in poetry; creative criticism; ecology; red deer; biosemiotics; Scottish Highlands
March 20, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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“The richness of Donnchadh Bàn’s language becomes a metaphor for the richness of nature... The poem is a song & the music itself becomes a metaphor for the co-existence of different forms of life”

—Meg Bateman on “Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain” for @irishpages.bsky.social
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IN PRAISE OF BEN DORAIN – The Irish Pages Press
Meg Bateman: In Praise of Ben Dorain. ‘Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain’ is the first full-length work published by Scottish poet Garry MacKenzie.
irishpages.org
March 20, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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A’ bheinn luiseanach fhailleanach
Mheallanach lìontach,
Gun choimeas dh’ a fallaing
Air thalamh na Crìosdachd…

—“Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain”, by Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir (Duncan Ban MacIntyre, 1724–1812), one of the greatest #Gaelic poets of the #C18th – born #OTD, 20 March

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Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain (earrann) Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir 4. Siubhal A’ bheinn luiseanach fhailleanach Mheallanach lìontach, Gun choimeas dh’ a fallaing Air thalamh na Crìosdachd: ’S ro-neònach tha mise, Le bòidhchead a sliosa, Nach ’eil còir aic’ an ciste Air tiotal na rìoghachd; ’S i air dùbladh le gibhtibh, ’S air lùisreadh le miosaibh Nach ’eil bitheant a’ bristeadh Air phriseanaibh tìre. Làn-trusgan gun deireas, Le usgraichean coille, Bàrr-guc air gach doire, Gun choir’ ort r’ a ìnnseadh; Far an uchdardach coileach, Le shriutaichibh loinneil, ’S eoin bhuchallach bheag’ eile Le ’n ceileiribh lìonmhor. ’S am buicean beag sgiolta, Bu sgiobalt air grìne, Gun sgiorradh gun tubaist, Gun tuisleadh gun dìobradh; Crodhanadh biorach, Feadh coire ’ga shireadh, Feadh fraoich agus firich, Air mhireadh ’ga dhìreadh; Feadh rainich is barraich Gum b’arraideach inntinn; Ann an ìosal gach feadain, ’S air àirde gach creagain, Gu mireanach beiceasach Easgannach sìnteach. ’N uair a théid e ’na bhoile Le clisge ’sa’ choille, ’S e ruith feadh gach doire, Air dheireadh cha bhì e; Leis an eangaig bu chaoile ’S e b’ aotruime sìnteag, Mu chnocanaibh donna Le ruith dara-tomain, ’S e togairt an coinneamh Bean-chomuinn os n-ìosal. Tha mhaoisleach bheag bhrangach ’Sa’ ghleannan a chòmhnaidh, ’S i fuireach ’san fhireach Le minneanan òga: Cluas bhiorach gu claisteachd, Sùil chorrach gu faicinn, ’S i earbsach ’na casaibh Chur seachad na mòintich. Ged thig Caoilte ’s Cù Chulainn, ’S gach duine de ’n t-seòrs’ ud, Na tha dhaoine ’s a dh’ eachaibh, Air fasdadh Rìgh Deòrsa, Nan tèarnadh a craiceann O luaidhe ’s o lasair, Cha chual’ is chan fhac’ i Na ghlacadh r’a beò i; ’S i gradcharach fadchasach Aigeannach neònach Gealcheireach gasganach, Gealtach roimh mhadadh, Air chaisead na leacainn Cha saltradh i còmhnard; ’S i noigeanach gnoigeasach Gogcheannach sòrnach, Biorshuileach sgurshuileach Frionasach furachair, A’ fuireach ’s a’ mhunadh, An do thuinich a seòrsa. Praise of Ben Dorain (extract) Duncan Ban MacIntyre (Translated by Iain Crichton Smith) 4. Siubhal Luxuriant mountain sprouting and knolled more healthy and cloudless than all hills in the world. How long my obsession! My song and my passion! She’s the first in the nation for grace and for beauty. Her gifts are so many, her fruits are so bonny, and rarer than any her bushes and leafage in flawless green raiment as bright as the diamond your blooms in agreement like elegant music. The cock with his vital and rapid recital, colourful, brutal, among the small birds. The buck small and nimble quick on the green neat as a thimble – a clever machine! Bright-hooved in the weather, as light as a feather, among moorland and heather exploring the corrie he saunters forever through bracken and story along by each river on the height of each hillock playful and vivid eel-like, elusive. When he’s startled to motion he’s as swift as your vision with speed and precision he speeds through each forest without seeming exertion he’s nearest, then furthest! In the autumn-hued landscape he skips in his gallop each second brown hillock as he’s greeting his sweetheart. His small doe is dwelling with the fawns in a corrie: sullen and snarling she guards them with fury: sharp ear cocked for hearing, quick eye ever peering, she relies on the veering quick tricks of her motion. Though Caoilt and Cuchulain are expert and nimble and every battalion King George can assemble if the flash and the bullet would leave her unsullied no man on this planet would catch her or find her: just like the minute and brilliant cinder. White-tailed and lightning-like though hunting dogs can frighten her – steep though the height to her you’ll not see her blunder. Haughty and spritely she’s a head-tossing wonder! sharp-eyed, disdainful, restless and wary, her home is the corrie along with her neighbours.
March 20, 2026 at 3:11 PM
asls.org.uk
How does it begin?
With the piper’s drone
with the coarse fabric of the land…

Ben Dorain: An Ecopoetic Translation
Garry MacKenzie on translating “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” into a 21st-century ecopoem
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www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/8/...
Abstract In this article, I reflect on my own practice in translating Duncan Bàn Macintyre’s eighteenth-century Gaelic poem, Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain, into a twenty-first century ‘ecopoem’. Macintyre’s Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain has been praised for its naturalism. My translation of this long poem emphasises the immediacy and biological specificity of Macintyre’s descriptions. I explore how the act of translation might intersect with contemporary ecological concerns. My poem is not simply a translation, but incorporates Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain into a new work which juxtaposes a free English version of Macintyre’s work with original material concerned with contemporary research into deer behaviour and ideas of ecological interconnectedness, including biosemiotics and Timothy Morton’s ‘dark ecology’. This article is a reflection on my production of a twenty-first century excavation and reimagining of Macintyre’s Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain. I consider how the difficulties of translation might be turned into imaginative opportunities, and explore how translation has the potential to function as exposition and expansion of an original text, in order to create a poem which is itself an ecosystem, comprising of multiple ecological, cultural and political interactions. Keywords: ecopoetics; translation; Gaelic poetry; Scottish poetry; mountains in poetry; creative criticism; ecology; red deer; biosemiotics; Scottish Highlands
March 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
asls.org.uk
“The richness of Donnchadh Bàn’s language becomes a metaphor for the richness of nature... The poem is a song & the music itself becomes a metaphor for the co-existence of different forms of life”

—Meg Bateman on “Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain”
2/4
irishpages.org/in-praise-of...
IN PRAISE OF BEN DORAIN – The Irish Pages Press
Meg Bateman: In Praise of Ben Dorain. ‘Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain’ is the first full-length work published by Scottish poet Garry MacKenzie.
irishpages.org
March 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
asls.org.uk
Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir (Duncan Ban MacIntyre, 1724–1812), one of the greatest #Gaelic poets of the #18thcentury, was born 301 years ago #OTD, 20 March

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Prof Alan Riach on Donnchadh Bàn’s “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” (“Praise of Ben Dorain”)
www.thenational.scot/news/1486120...
Not Burns – Duncan Ban MacIntyre and his Gaelic manifesto for land reform
IN the years after the Jacobite rising of 1745, Culloden in 1746, and the violent reprisals against the Highland clans that followed, two Gaelic…
www.thenational.scot
March 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
asls.org.uk
How does it begin?
With the piper’s drone
with the coarse fabric of the land…

Ben Dorain: An Ecopoetic Translation
Garry MacKenzie on translating “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” into a 21st-century ecopoem
3/4
www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/8/...
Ben Dorain: An Ecopoetic Translation
In this article, I reflect on my own practice in translating Duncan Bàn Macintyre’s eighteenth-century Gaelic poem, Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain, into a twenty-first century ‘ecopoem’. Macintyre’s Moladh Bei...
www.mdpi.com
March 20, 2024 at 12:27 PM
asls.org.uk
“The richness of Donnchadh Bàn’s language becomes a metaphor for the richness of nature... The poem is a song & the music itself becomes a metaphor for the co-existence of different forms of life”

—Meg Bateman on “Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain”
2/4
irishpages.org/in-praise-of...
IN PRAISE OF BEN DORAIN – The Irish Pages Press
Meg Bateman: In Praise of Ben Dorain. ‘Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain’ is the first full-length work published by Scottish poet Garry MacKenzie.
irishpages.org
March 20, 2024 at 12:26 PM
asls.org.uk
Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir (Duncan Ban MacIntyre, 1724–1812), one of the greatest #Gaelic poets of the #18thcentury, was born 300 years ago #OTD, 20 March

A 🎂 🧵
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Prof Alan Riach on Donnchadh Bàn’s “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” (“Praise of Ben Dorain”)
www.thenational.scot/news/1486120...
Not Burns – Duncan Ban MacIntyre and his Gaelic manifesto for land reform
IN the years after the Jacobite rising of 1745, Culloden in 1746, and the violent reprisals against the Highland clans that followed, two Gaelic…
www.thenational.scot
March 20, 2024 at 12:24 PM
tourscotland.bsky.social
Tour #Scotland travel photograph and video Blog of photography of #Beinn #Dorain on #ancestry, #genealogy, #history visit and trip to #Bridge Of #Orchy, #Argyll. Beinn Dòbhrain means hill of the streamlet or hill of the otters tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2015/06/tour...
Tour Scotland Video Beinn Dorain Bridge Of Orchy Scottish Highlands
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June 23, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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Tour #Scotland travel Blog photography of Loch Tulla and Beinn Dorain from visit to the #Highlands. #Gaelic: Beinn Dòbhrain, meaning hill of the streamlet, is a mountain located in Argyll and Bute tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2009/04/phot...
Tour Scotland Photograph of Loch Tulla and Beinn Dorain
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May 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Beinn Dòbhrain
'hill of the otter'

An t-urram thar gach beinn
Aig Beinn Dòbhrain;
De na chunnaic mi fon ghrèin,
'S i bu bhòidhche leam…

Honour beyond each ben
for Ben Doran;
Of all I have seen beneath the sun,
she is the most glorious for me

Duncan ban McIntyre
1724-1812
December 2, 2024 at 5:12 AM
caitrua.bsky.social
Oíche mhaith gach duine ach go háirithe an pub frith-Shíónach i mBun Dobhráin
December 30, 2024 at 10:59 PM
islandspass.bsky.social
Tha stampa Bheàrnaraigh a’ sealltainn dòbhran aig ceann cabhsair an eilein far am faicear soidhne ‘Dòbhrain a’ Dol Tarsainn’ airson cuideachadh gus na creutairean sònraichte ionadail seo a dhìon.

✍️ Jo MacDonald
March 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM
oirnagaeilge.bsky.social
🏃Bí linn do #parkrunabú! Bun Dobhráin - Dé Sathairn, 2 Bealtaine 2026 9.30 a.m.🏃

Is cuma más lúthchleasaí thú nó más fearr leat siúlóidí sóisialta, cuirfear fáilte roimh chách ag an #parkrunabú !
April 28, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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I mBun Dobhráin, ar chósta an Atlantaigh, a bhí na mná i mbun ceiliúrtha ar feadh an deireadh seachtaine ag Féile na mBan 👯‍♀️

Féile na mBan: Brigid Beo ✨ Ag sruthú anois ar Seinnteoir TG4 ⬇️
https://nasc.tg4.tv/Féile_na_mBan-Brigid_Beo
Féile na mBan - Brigid Beo | Seinnteoir | Irish Television Channel, Súil Eile
Agus radharc draíochtúil Shlí an Atlantaigh Fhiáin mar chúlra, déanann Féile na mBan 2026 - Brigid Beo ceiliúradh ar phobal, ar ealaín agus ar ghuth na mban. Tugann an clár ómós d'oidhreacht agus do s...
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February 3, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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Today’s reflection: Gaelic hydronymy, the peninsula as a manuscript of water.

Allt Faskadale. Camas nan Clacha Móra. Lochan Dóbhrain.

Speaking these names feels like letting the sea move through the mouth.

Spiorad aird nam Murchan Pt.24

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#TheSeaAroundUs
Lochan na Crannnaig, West Ardnamurchan.
January 20, 2026 at 9:18 PM