This is an area of the site for articles about McGonagall’s life and works. Some contemporary press reports about his activities can be found in the Life section. If you would like to submit an article for publication here, please contact the webmaster.
The McGonagall Map
McGonagall wrote poems about places all over central Scotland, here’s a chance to see them plotted on a map.
Awful Poet who Didn’t Know it
Profile of McGonagall published in the Scotland on Sunday newspaper in 1991.
The Real McGonagall
Closely-argued article by Gord Bambrick putting forward the theory that McGonagall was a deliberate satirist and comedian, rather than the incompetent of public imagination.
McGonagall the Heroic Failure
McGonagall’s two entries in Stephen Pile’s Book of Heroic Failures.
The Tale of a Whale
The true story of the “Famous Tay Whale”, as told through contemporary news reports in the Dundee Courier.
A Sketch of the “Poet”
This summary of McGonagall’s life, fully entitled Sketch of the “Poet,” with some account of his travels and adventures in the role of tramp-poet, actor and elocutionist, formed the second part of the introduction to Select Poems of McGonagall – the first posthumous collection of his works.
Statistical Analysis
Some simple number-crunching in relation to McGonagall’s poetic output.
The Great McGonagall
This essay by Scottish poet and writer Hugh MacDiarmid is taken from his book Scottish Eccentrics, published in 1936.
A McGonagall Calendar
A list of events commemorated by poetic gems, according to the date on which they occurred.
Some Examples of McGonagall’s “Poetry”
This survey of McGonagall’s poetic works, fully entitled Some Examples of McGonagall’s “Poetry” with the Editor’s Observations Thereon, formed the first part of the introduction to Select Poems of McGonagall – the first posthumous collection of his works.
