Dùn Aluinn

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Dun Aluinn (1912) by Iain MacCormaic was the first full length novel in Scottish Gaelic. It was closely followed by An t-Ogha Mór, which had actually been serialised prior to Dun Aluinn's publication, and so vies for this position. Iain MacCormaic had also published a novella, Gun d'thug i speis do'n Armunn a few years before. The name is sometimes anglicised as "Dunaline".

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It is about the horror of the Highland Clearances, and the heir of a despotic landlord, Cailean Og, who is disinherited. The most interesting character is the kirk minister who makes a sermon about social rights. For a novel of its period, it is fairly cosmopolitan, and the action ranges to locations as exotic as gold mines in New Zealand.