THE SANDSTONE MEANMNACH SERIES

The Sandstone Meanmnach Series is aimed at Advanced Gaelic learners as well as accomplished readers. Recognising that most readers come from an English language background the books open with an introduction that will contextualise and lead into the story.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Flora MacDonald was born and brought up in Benbecula. She has been bestowed with a creative imagination and takes her writing skills from one of her relations, the Rev. Angus MacDonald, one of the two authors who wrote the history of Clan Donald.

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LITIR À AMEIREAGAIDH/LETTER FROM AMERICA

Flòraidh NicDhòmhnaill/Floraidh MacDonald

LITIR À AMEIREAGAIDH tells of the life of Donald John who, in the years after the Great War, leaves Uist to work as a policeman, initially in Glasgow and later in New York.

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EXTRACT FROM: LITIR À AMEIREAGAIDH/LETTER FROM AMERICA

Donald John invests in a boat for further illegal drink trading. It is the custom to collect crates of drink from the liners that are ferrying the liquid gold to other areas of the world. The smaller boats bring their bounty back to the city and sell it in the speakeasies.

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