I love Gaelic poetry, and I am very thankful for this book for introducing me to Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair who quickly became one of my favourite poets. But I must address something: These translations make no sense! It is as if the author did not expect anyone to be able to read the origional poems and just provided a different poem for a translation, leaving only the central message but leaving out any nuances. This quite frankly ruined the experience.