Rev. Duncan Blair composed sacred and secular poems, laments, and songs and prose, many of which were published in Mac-Talla, the famous Gaelic newspaper published in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Now transcribed in the original Gaelic with English translations, Fògradh, Fàisneachd, Filidheachd includes Blair’s articles about the Clearances, an account of 16^th century seer who some say foretold of the Clearances, essays about Blair’s travels around the Maritimes and Ontario and several of his poems, all as published in Mac-Talla.