78:, since there might often be a number of men with the same first names in any given clan, they were given sobriquets which might be based on a peculiar characteristic or feature. "Lom" is Scots Gaelic for "bald" or "bare" (lom a., comparative form luime, bare, bald, shaven, cropped), perhaps indicating he was bald. However, in Gaelic idiom, it can also mean one who is very plain-spoken, an idiom which perhaps can best be related in English to the term "bare-faced" (though this is now generally applied only to liars). He was also known as
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to surprise Argyll at
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Iain Lom is representative of a switch from the ancient, classical tradition of Gaelic poetry to the vernacular poetry of the 17th century and later. Classical bards wrote mainly praise poems to their clan chiefs in the
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afterwards, he is said to have replied that he had climbed the tree the better to see his chief and clansmens' deeds, and had he risked being been killed, who would have composed a poem about their victory?
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all seven assassins with the very sword they had used to slay the
Keppoch heirs. Iain Lom then showed all 7 heads to the Chief of Glengarry, as a public rebuke for his earlier refusal to follow the
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to justice. When Dòmhnall Glas II (Grey Donald II) died his heir, Alasdair was too young to rule. The clan was governed by
Alasdair Buidhe (Yellow- haired Alexander), uncle to the heir, as
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in 1689, when he would have been in his mid-sixties. Two poems about the battle are attributed to him although it has been suggested that one of these may have been written by his son.
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were finally granted to Iain Lom in 1665. The guilty parties were surprised at a house near
Inverlair, where Iain Lom is said in the oral tradition to have personally
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brother at a skirmish on Loch
Tayside (Sròn a’ Chlachain), a battle in which their father was also killed. Thereafter, he refused to draw a sword. When offered one by
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was shot just below his breast plate, and not, as later suggested by
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for justice but was ignored and achieved nothing. He accordingly had to flee into exile and appealed to Sir James, of
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as a youth and was expelled for some failing or indiscretion. Some suggest that Lom maybe a reference to a tonsure.
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consisting of 7 men (Alexander MacDonald, the Keppoch
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