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19: 162: 303:("A Song for MacLeod of Dunvegan"), rebuking the chief for not performing his traditional duties to his subjects and failing to support traditional Gaelic culture. Morison died in 1713. The last of the family to practice Classical Gaelic poetry was Domhnall MacMhuirich, who lived on 319:
veteran Colonel William McMurdo Currie as their chief. Before his death in 1992, he named Robert Currie, who established the non-profit organisation The Clan Currie Society, as his successor as "Clan Commander". The Society continues to promote traditional Gaelic music and poetry.
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1637–1726), the last fully competent practitioner of the family and who was still working in the first quarter of the 18th century. In the first part of the 16th century members of the family are also recorded as
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as poets, lawyers, and physicians. With the fall of the Lordship of the Isles in the 15th century, the family was chiefly employed by the
189:, which took place in 1411. A possible descendant of Lachlann's was one "Lacclannus mcmuredhaich archipoeta", who witnessed a charter of 1010: 774: 220:
Following the collapse of the Lordship of the Isles, the MacMhuirich family appears to have been chiefly employed by the chiefs of the
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An early member of the MacMhuirich family was Lachlann Mór MacMhuirich, who authored the battle-incitement poem of
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until the latter's death in 1693. John's successor, the similarly named Rockerick MacLeod "the Younger", was an
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that Muireadhach Albanach composed on the death of his wife, Maol Mheadha, he stated that they had 11 children.
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and other professionals in 15th to 18th centuries. The family was centred in the
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bardic dynasty. This family is sometimes traced back to either of two men named
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In 1959, descendants of Clann MacMhuirich (known today as Clan Currie) elected
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Bards and Makars. Scottish Language and Literature: Medieval and Renaissance
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Black, Ronald (1976–1978), "The Genius of Cathal MacMhuirich",
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1200–1230). Muireadhach Albanach was a member of the eminent
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Other noted members of the family were Cathal MacMhuirich (
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Bruford, Alan (1965), "A Lost MacMhuirich Manuscript",
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The Celts: a history from earliest times to the present
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has been confined mainly to the MacMhuirich family.
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Index


MS 1467
Scottish Gaelic
bards
Hebrides
Lords of the Isles
chiefs
MacDonalds of Clanranald
Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh
fl.
Ó Dálaigh
Colmán mac Lénéni of Cloyne
Fergal mac Maíle Dúin
Maíle Fithraig
Scot
steward
Lord of Tyrconell
Earls of Lennox
the Lennox
lament

Red Book of Clanranald
National Museum of Scotland
Clan Donald
Battle of Harlaw
Aonghas of Islay
Lord of the Isles
Book of the Dean of Lismore
Apostolic Camera
MacMhuirich

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