Includes the Scottish Gaelic folktale Domhnall Ruadh agus an claban, recorded from Donald John MacKinnon, of Barra, in 1972
(with English translation).
Describes how women have played the role of poets and performers
despite the male predominance in the bardic system. Discusses in
particular the terms ban-fhili, ban-cháinte and ban-chaínte.
Rev. by
Anne O’Sullivan, in Celtica 10 (1973), pp. 267-271.