Jack Lynch examines the literary fraud perpetrated by James Macpherson and how it effects the text of Ossian.

Access a partially modernized e-text of the "Fragments of Ancient Poetry" written by this poet, who attributed them to a bard called Ossian.

Read a short biography of the 18th century poet who wrote "translations" of Gaelic poet Ossian that were later proven to be fake.

Examine "The Songs of Selma", part of the epic "Fingal" which Macpherson passed off as an ancient work but was in fact of his own composition.

Presents a profile of this 18th-century writer, whose forgeries of ancient Gaelic poetry had an immense influence on Romanticism.