A Commentary on the Famous Tay Whale ... A Dramatic Poem by William McGonnagall Extracts from William McGonnagall's 'A Dramatic Poem', with contemporary and later accounts of the saga of the Tay Whale. The whale had been observed off the Firth of Tay since the end of November and a week before its final demise, had been harpooned and seriously wounded by Dundee-based whalers. post-1969