Papers of Lorn Macinnes Macintyre, b1942, English student, University of Stirling, Scotland

This material is held atUniversity of Stirling Archives & Special Collections

Reference
- GB 559 MS 39
Dates of Creation
- 1971
Name of Creator
- Macintyre, Lorn Macinnes (b1942: English student, University of Stirling, Scotland)
Language of Material
- English
Physical Description
- 0.3 metres

Scope and Content

Undergraduate dissertation on Iain Crichton Smith by Lorn Macintyre 1971
Tape (with transcript, and 2 copies on cassette) of interview between Smith and Macintyre 1971
Transcript of BBC television broadcast of poem by Smith 1967

Administrative / Biographical History

Lorn Macinnes Macintyre was born in Taynuilt, Argyll, in 1942 , and studied English at the University of Stirling. He is a novelist, television scriptwriter, short story writer, and poet. His books include the Chronicles of Inverness series.

The interview between Iain Crichton Smith and Lorn Macintyre was recorded at the poet's residence in Oban on Friday, 05 March, 1971 , in connection with a project for the University of Stirling. The transcript of this interview is accompanied by Lorn Macintyre's undergraduate dissertation The poetry of Iain Crichton Smith, which is also based on the interview.

Iain Crichton Smith , poet and novelist, was born on the Isle of Lewis in 1928 . He was educated in Stornoway and the University of Aberdeen. As well as being a writer, he was a teacher in Clydebank, Dumbarton and Oban before retiring in 1977 . His first book of poems, The Long River, was published in 1955 , and he has published frequently since, including Selected Poems (1982 ). Iain Crichton Smith was bilingual in Gaelic and English. Until his death in October 1998 , he was one of the most prolific writers of Gaelic fiction and verse, and had been producing Gaelic poetry for almost four decades.