Derick Thomson's An Rathad Cian (The Far Road, 1970): Modern Gaelic Poetry of Place Between Introspection and Politics

Abstract

This essay discusses Derick Thomson's poetry collection An Rathad Cian (The Far Road, 1970) which is one of the major twentieth-century contributions to Scottish Gaelic poetry of place.

Keywords

• Derick Thomson (Ruaraidh MacThomais)
• An Rathad Cian (The Far Road)
• Scottish Gaelic poetry
• poetry of place