num_pages: 96
description: Ian Lom Macdonald one of the greatest poets in Gaelic wrote a recruiting song for Alasdair Mac Colla when he arrived in Western Scotland with his army. He said the Gael of Ireland and Scotland were of a common root and branch and shared the same heritage. The lives of McDonnell and the men who served with him illustrate a Gaelic world which stretched from the south coast of Ireland to the north of Scotland which both had been subverted by the Gall. The unity of purpose and heroic bravery constantly displayed by Mac Colla's men Scot and Irish are a testament to the society which produced them.
language: English
title: Alasdair MacColla McDonnell and the Battle of Knocknanuss
publisher: Seamus O'Suilleabhain