Iain MacKintosh [SEP] cause of death
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MacKintosh became one of the best-loved artists of Tønder Festival where he used to run the Saturday afternoon concert at the Mill. For years he did joint tours with other notable folk artists, mainly Hamish Imlach and Brian McNeill. He retired at the age of 68, after a final tour of several European countries in 2000.
Iain MacKintosh died on 28 August 2006 of laryngeal cancer, weakened by Parkinson's disease.
Sources.
- "Sing Out!", 1 January 2007
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Jack McConnell, MSP, First Minister of Scotland; John Kenneth Galbraith; Neil Kinnock; John Smith; Donald Dewar former First Minister of Scotland; and Gordon Brown MP, among others.
The continued salience of Mackintosh's thinking on Scottish devolution has also been underscored in "The Scotsman" by Iain Gray, former Leader of the Scottish Labour Party.
After his death, two volumes of essays were published: "Mackintosh on Scotland" edited by Henry Drucker (1982) and "Mackintosh on Parliament and Social Democracy