Lorn Macintyre

Lorn Macintyre was born in Taynuilt, Argyll, and spent formative years on the Isle of Mull, both places being the inspiration for his poetry and prose and his exposure to Gaelic culture. His doctorate on Sir Walter Scott and the Highlands shows how that area of Scotland was romanticised and misrepresented in literature by 'the Wizard of the North, ' with lasting detriment. Lorn is the author of the Chronicles of Invernevis , about a Highland landed family, of which four in the series of novels...See more

Lorn Macintyre was born in Taynuilt, Argyll, and spent formative years on the Isle of Mull, both places being the inspiration for his poetry and prose and his exposure to Gaelic culture. His doctorate on Sir Walter Scott and the Highlands shows how that area of Scotland was romanticised and misrepresented in literature by 'the Wizard of the North, ' with lasting detriment. Lorn is the author of the Chronicles of Invernevis , about a Highland landed family, of which four in the series of novels have been published. He has published two acclaimed collections of short stories based on his years on Mull and its characters, including his own legendary father Angus, poet, bank manager and obsessed Gael. His poetry, like his fiction, records and laments the disappearance of a traditional way of life, with accompanying decline in the Gaelic language, and the exploitation of the environment, with some wildlife under threat of extinction through the use of chemicals. Lorn's website is at See less