Born: No­vem­ber 6, 1853, Tigh-na-coille Kil­tar­li­ty, In­ver­ness­shire, Scot­land.

Died: Jan­u­a­ry 24, 1931, Kirk­cal­dy, Scot­land.

Macbean ed­it­ed The Fife­shire Ad­ver­tis­er in Kirk­cal­dy. He was ac­tive­ly in­volved in res­ur­rect­ing al­most for­got­ten Gael­ic songs. His works in­clude:

• Kirkcaldy Burgh Re­cords
• Lessons on Gael­ic
• Songs and Hymns of the Gael (Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land: 1888)

Sources

Translations

1. Child in the Man­ger