Editing Bard (section)

===Scotland===
{{Further|MacMhuirich bardic family}}
The best-known group of bards in Scotland were the members of the MacMhuirich family, who flourished from the 15th to the 18th centuries. The family was centred in the [[Hebrides]], and claimed descent from a 13th-century Irish bard who, according to legend, was exiled to Scotland. The family was at first chiefly employed by the [[Lords of the Isles]] as poets, lawyers, and physicians.<ref name="Clancy-453"/> With the fall of the Lordship of the Isles in the 15th century, the family was chiefly employed by the [[Scottish clan chief|chiefs]] of the [[Clan Macdonald of Clanranald|MacDonalds of Clanranald]]. Members of the family were also recorded as musicians in the early 16th century, and as clergymen possibly as early as the early 15th century.<ref name="Thomson-61">{{citation |author=Thomson, Derick S. |author-link=Derick Thomson |title=Gaelic Learned Orders and Literati in Medieval Scotland |journal=Scottish Studies |publisher=The Journal of the School of Scottish Studies University of Edinburgh |year=1968 |volume=12 |issue=1 |page=65}}</ref> The last of the family to practise classical Gaelic poetry was Domhnall MacMhuirich, who lived on [[South Uist]] in the 18th century.<ref name="Clancy-453">{{citation |last=Clancy |first=Thomas Owen |author-link=Thomas Owen Clancy |contribution=Clann MacMhuirich |title=Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia |editor1-last=Koch |editor1-first=John T. |editor1-link=John T. Koch |year=2006 |location=[[Santa Barbara, California|Santa Barbara]] |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |isbn=1-85109-445-8 |page=453 }}</ref>

{{anchor|village bard}}In [[Gàidhealtachd|Gaelic-speaking areas]], a '''village bard''' or '''village poet''' ({{langx|gd|bàrd-baile}}) is a local poet who composes works in a traditional style relating to that community. Notable village bards include [[Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna]] and {{ill|Dòmhnall Ruadh Phàislig|gd}}.<ref>{{cite book |title=Celtic Culture: A-Celti |date=2006 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9781851094400 |pages=173–74 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f899xH_quaMC&q=bard-baile&pg=PA173}}</ref>