Books by James Macpherson

Northern Scotland is a cross-disciplinary publication which addresses historical, cultural, economic, political and geographical themes relating to the Highlands and Islands and the north-east of Scotland.

James Macpherson's translations of the poetry of Ossian, a third-century Highland Bard, were an instant success. But were the poems part of a great Gaelic oral tradition, or the work of Macpherson's imagination?