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==Other languages== * The [[Welsh poetry]] of [[Gwilym Puw]], who fought as a Captain in the Royalist Army and lived long enough to witness the [[Stuart Restoration]], marks him out as a Cavalier poet in [[Welsh-language literature]]. * [[Iain Lom]], a [[Tacksman]] from [[Clan MacDonald of Keppoch]], composed a long eyewitness account of the 1645 [[Battle of Inverlochy (1645)|Battle of Inverlochy]] in the [[war poet|war poem]] ''Là Inbhir Lochaidh'' ("The Day of Inverlochy"). The resulting poem is still regarded as one of the great treasures of [[Scottish Gaelic literature]] and is an important primary source for historians regarding the battle.<ref>Annie M. Mackenzie,"Oran Iain Luim", (Scottish Gaelic Texts Society,1964)XXXVIII</ref><ref>John L. Roberts,"Clan, King and Covenant" (Edinburgh University Press, 2000) 65-68</ref> * Revealing that he saw the [[Jacobite rising of 1745]] as the continuation of the war his ancestors had waged against [[Oliver Cromwell]] and the [[Rump Parliament]], [[Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair]]'s 1751 poetry book ''"Ais-Eiridh na Sean Chánoin Albannaich"'' ("The Resurrection of the Ancient Scottish Language") included [[literary translation]]s into [[Scottish Gaelic language|Gaelic]] of three poems by Cavalier poet [[James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose]], which expressed his loyalty to [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]] and to the [[House of Stuart]] during the [[English Civil War]].<ref> Digitised version of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair's [http://digital.nls.uk/77282357 Ais-Eiridh na Sean Chánoin Albannaich / The resurrection of the ancient Scottish language], 1751 at the [[National Library of Scotland]]. The [[literary translation]]s of the poems by Montrose are on pages 166-169.</ref>
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