His early poetry was around English, however before long come to the guide that his avowedly love was for verse inside Gaelic, & surely per mid 1930s he was well referred to as the writer therein tongue.

Very much of his operate was specifically political, & his position was Marxist, although he was also the skilled & delicate writer of love poetry. In the period of World War II he served in Northward Africa, & was maimed in threesome occasions, one of which was severe.

His operate within a field of Gaelic poetry at a instance which super couple of writers of substance were working in Scottish Gaelic in the least, hwhen led to him existence seen as the father of the Scottish Gaelic renaissance. His poetry articulated inside Gaelic a crimes of a 20th century & modernised & reinvigorated a language in the run, drawing clear & articulate analogies between such tragedies when the Highland Clearances & the contemporary viciousness and injustice of cases in situ like Biafra and Rwanda.

A verse form Hallaig is one of a lyrics involved around Peter Maxwell-Davies' opera The Jacobite Rising.