Dàin do Eimhir

"Dàin do Eimhir"
Short story by Sorley MacLean
The cover of Dàin do Eimhir agus Dàin Eile
TranslatorSorley MacLean, also Iain Crichton Smith
CountryScotland
LanguageScottish Gaelic
Publication
Published in Dàin do Eimhir agus Dàin Eile
Publication typePoetry collection
PublisherWilliam MacLennan
Publication dateNovember 1943
Published in English1971

Dàin do Eimhir (transl.Poems for Eimhir) is a sequence of sixty poems written in Scottish Gaelic by Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain). Considered MacLean's masterpiece, the poems deal with intertwining themes of romantic love, landscape, history, and the Spanish Civil War, and are among the most important works ever written in Scottish Gaelic literature.

Forty-eight of the poems were published in MacLean's 1943 book Dàin do Eimhir agus Dàin Eile, and thirty-six were included in a 1971 English version translated by Iain Crichton Smith (Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn). MacLean asked his publisher to destroy the other twelve, but eleven survived and were published in 2002 in an annotated edition edited by Christopher Whyte.