Peter Mackay / Pàdraig MacAoidh
Peter Mackay is the Seamus Heaney Centre Research Fellow attached to the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies project 'Relations and Comparison's between Irish and Scottish Poetry: 1890 to the Present Day'. He was educated at the Nicolson Institute, Glasgow University and Trinity College, Dublin, where his PhD was on 'The Influence of William Wordsworth on Seamus Heaney'. He is currently working on a monograph on the work of Sorley MacLean, as well as co-editing a collection of essays on Scots Gaelic literature and an anthology of Gaelic transgressive verse.
The following recordings were made at the launch of An Guth 4 on the 15th of February 2007:
Tìm 's Chaos ann am Pabail, am Faoilleach 2007
The
following recording was made at a reading in association with the AHRC funded
Irish-Scottish Poetry symposium, on 23 November 2007:
Winter Blues
by Sydney Goodsir Smith
© Peter Mackay and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry 2007.
