Biography

Reverend Ruaraidh MacDonald wrote the words to the hymn Madainn th’ air Èirigh, which is sung by congregations in the churches of Tiree. He was born in North Uist and served as a minister of the Church of Scotland in Stornoway and Insch, Aberdeenshire. He was an outstanding Gaelic scholar, and many of his hymns have been published. He translated the complete poetry of Robert Burns into Gaelic and was awarded the Bardic Crown of An Comunn Gàidhealach at the Sutherland Mòd in 1977. There are at least two other Gaelic translations of the hymn Morning Has Broken. One, by Kenna Campbell, appears in the hymnal Seinnibh don Tighearna (Kevin Mayhew Ltd, 1986), and another by Isabel MacDonald of Livingston appears in the journal Gairm, Number 80, Autumn 1972.

List of compositions

Aon Phòg Ghràidh (translation)
Madainn Th' air Èirigh (translation)