Guest speaker at Friday evening’s meeting of the Arran Saltire Society at Altachorvie was Alan Riach, poet and Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University.
Professor Alan Raich speaks at the society meeting.
Alan, on his second formal visit to the society, engaged the local members in a wide and diverse programme covering the development and diffusion of Celtic arts and culture throughout the ages and the life-changing challenges Scottish Gaeldom faced following the dissolution of the Lordship of the Isles under James IV, and its near extirpation by the Hanoverian regime post Culloden.