When 18th century Badenoch writer James Macpherson uncovered and published epic stories by a third century Scottish warrior ...

A BRILLIANT new play written and performed by the Scottish poet Martin O’Connor probes his early years with his ...

It is about Ossian, a Scottish poet from the third century who was dubbed the “Homer of the north”. His epic Gaelic poems, translated into English by James Macpherson, caught the imagination ...

In the 1760s, Scottish writer James Macpherson published a popular cycle of poems, which he claimed to have translated from works originally by a Gaelic bard called Ossian in the third century.

1760 – Scottish poet James Macpherson sets the world ablaze with stories of the third-century Scottish bard, Ossian. This tartan-trimmed tale of Highland history spreads far and wide ...