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A liuthad soitheach a dh’fhàg ar dùthaich
le sgiathan geala a’ toirt Chanada orra.
Tha iad mar neapaigearan ’nar cuimhne
’s an sàl mar dheoirean,
’s anns na croinn aca seòladairean a’ seinn
mar eòin air gheugan.

—Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn, “Na h-Eilthirich” (Iain Crichton Smith, “The Exiles”)
published in Nua-Bhardachd Gaidhlig / Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems, @canongatebooks 1999

https://canongate.co.uk/books/193-modern-scottish-gaelic-poems-a-bilingual-anthology/

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #Clearances #emigration #exile

A liuthad soitheach a dh’fhàg ar dùthaich
le sgiathan geala a’ toirt Chanada orra.
Tha iad mar neapaigearan ’nar cuimhne
’s an sàl mar dheoirean,
’s anns na croinn aca seòladairean a’ seinn
mar eòin air gheugan.

—Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn, “Na h-Eilthirich” (Iain Crichton Smith, “The Exiles”)
published in Nua-Bhardachd Gaidhlig / Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems, @canongatebooks 1999

https://canongate.co.uk/books/193-modern-scottish-gaelic-poems-a-bilingual-anthology/

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #Clearances #emigration #exile

A liuthad soitheach a dh’fhàg ar dùthaich
le sgiathan geala a’ toirt Chanada orra.
Tha iad mar neapaigearan ’nar cuimhne
’s an sàl mar dheoirean,
’s anns na croinn aca seòladairean a’ seinn
mar eòin air gheugan.

—Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn, “Na h-Eilthirich” (Iain Crichton Smith, “The Exiles”)
published in Nua-Bhardachd Gaidhlig / Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems, @canongatebooks 1999

https://canongate.co.uk/books/193-modern-scottish-gaelic-poems-a-bilingual-anthology/

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #Clearances #emigration #exile

A liuthad soitheach a dh’fhàg ar dùthaich
le sgiathan geala a’ toirt Chanada orra.
Tha iad mar neapaigearan ’nar cuimhne
’s an sàl mar dheoirean,
’s anns na croinn aca seòladairean a’ seinn
mar eòin air gheugan.

—Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn, “Na h-Eilthirich” (Iain Crichton Smith, “The Exiles”)
published in Nua-Bhardachd Gaidhlig / Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems, @canongatebooks 1999

https://canongate.co.uk/books/193-modern-scottish-gaelic-poems-a-bilingual-anthology/

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #Clearances #emigration #exile

A liuthad soitheach a dh’fhàg ar dùthaich
le sgiathan geala a’ toirt Chanada orra.
Tha iad mar neapaigearan ’nar cuimhne
’s an sàl mar dheoirean,
’s anns na croinn aca seòladairean a’ seinn
mar eòin air gheugan.

—Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn, “Na h-Eilthirich” (Iain Crichton Smith, “The Exiles”)
published in Nua-Bhardachd Gaidhlig / Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems, @canongatebooks 1999

https://canongate.co.uk/books/193-modern-scottish-gaelic-poems-a-bilingual-anthology/

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #Clearances #emigration #exile

Strathnaver in northern Sutherland: a place whose beauty on a day like the one shown here belies a dark history, a history of clearance that explains how quiet it can seem today. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/bettyhill/strathnaver/index.html

#Scotland #Sutherland #Strathnaver #Loch #Bracken #Clearances

Strathnaver in northern Sutherland: a place whose beauty on a day like the one shown here belies a dark history, a history of clearance that explains how quiet it can seem today. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/bettyhill/strathnaver/index.html

#Scotland #Sutherland #Strathnaver #Loch #Bracken #Clearances

Strathnaver in northern Sutherland: a place whose beauty on a day like the one shown here belies a dark history, a history of clearance that explains how quiet it can seem today. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/bettyhill/strathnaver/index.html

#Scotland #Sutherland #Strathnaver #Loch #Bracken #Clearances

Strathnaver in northern Sutherland: a place whose beauty on a day like the one shown here belies a dark history, a history of clearance that explains how quiet it can seem today. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/bettyhill/strathnaver/index.html

#Scotland #Sutherland #Strathnaver #Loch #Bracken #Clearances

Strathnaver in northern Sutherland: a place whose beauty on a day like the one shown here belies a dark history, a history of clearance that explains how quiet it can seem today. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/bettyhill/strathnaver/index.html

#Scotland #Sutherland #Strathnaver #Loch #Bracken #Clearances

Last one from the #Clearances ruins at Loch Eishort. You can clearly see what an unforgiving landscape it would have been to try and build barely adequate homes and exist.

A liuthad soitheach a dh’fhàg ar dùthaich
le sgiathan geala a’ toirt Chanada orra.
Tha iad mar neapaigearan ’nar cuimhne
’s an sàl mar dheoirean,
’s anns na croinn aca seòladairean a’ seinn
mar eòin air gheugan…

Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn, “Na h-Eilthirich” (Iain Crichton Smith, “The Exiles”)
Published in Nua-Bhardachd Gaidhlig / Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems, @canongatebooks 1999

https://canongate.co.uk/books/193-modern-scottish-gaelic-poems-a-bilingual-anthology/

#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poem #poetry #Clearances #emigration #exile

A liuthad soitheach a dh’fhàg ar dùthaich
le sgiathan geala a’ toirt Chanada orra.
Tha iad mar neapaigearan ’nar cuimhne
’s an sàl mar dheoirean,
’s anns na croinn aca seòladairean a’ seinn
mar eòin air gheugan…

Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn, “Na h-Eilthirich” (Iain Crichton Smith, “The Exiles”)
Published in Nua-Bhardachd Gaidhlig / Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems, @canongatebooks 1999

https://canongate.co.uk/books/193-modern-scottish-gaelic-poems-a-bilingual-anthology/

#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poem #poetry #Clearances #emigration #exile

A liuthad soitheach a dh’fhàg ar dùthaich
le sgiathan geala a’ toirt Chanada orra.
Tha iad mar neapaigearan ’nar cuimhne
’s an sàl mar dheoirean,
’s anns na croinn aca seòladairean a’ seinn
mar eòin air gheugan…

Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn, “Na h-Eilthirich” (Iain Crichton Smith, “The Exiles”)
Published in Nua-Bhardachd Gaidhlig / Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems, @canongatebooks 1999

https://canongate.co.uk/books/193-modern-scottish-gaelic-poems-a-bilingual-anthology/

#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poem #poetry #Clearances #emigration #exile

A liuthad soitheach a dh’fhàg ar dùthaich
le sgiathan geala a’ toirt Chanada orra.
Tha iad mar neapaigearan ’nar cuimhne
’s an sàl mar dheoirean,
’s anns na croinn aca seòladairean a’ seinn
mar eòin air gheugan…

Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn, “Na h-Eilthirich” (Iain Crichton Smith, “The Exiles”)
Published in Nua-Bhardachd Gaidhlig / Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems, @canongatebooks 1999

https://canongate.co.uk/books/193-modern-scottish-gaelic-poems-a-bilingual-anthology/

#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poem #poetry #Clearances #emigration #exile

A liuthad soitheach a dh’fhàg ar dùthaich
le sgiathan geala a’ toirt Chanada orra.
Tha iad mar neapaigearan ’nar cuimhne
’s an sàl mar dheoirean,
’s anns na croinn aca seòladairean a’ seinn
mar eòin air gheugan…

Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn, “Na h-Eilthirich” (Iain Crichton Smith, “The Exiles”)
Published in Nua-Bhardachd Gaidhlig / Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems, @canongatebooks 1999

https://canongate.co.uk/books/193-modern-scottish-gaelic-poems-a-bilingual-anthology/

#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poem #poetry #Clearances #emigration #exile

Trump Revokes Security Clearances for Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton #World #Clearances #Clinton #Harris #Hillary #Kamala #Revokes #security #Trump 
https://tinyurl.com/29owpqwb

Trump Revokes Security Clearances for Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton #World #Clearances #Clinton #Harris #Hillary #Kamala #Revokes #security #Trump 
https://tinyurl.com/29owpqwb

#Trump has stripped #security #clearances from employees at #Perkins #Coie, a law firm paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton that funded the research behind the ‘ #Trump - #Russia’ dossier during the 2016 election.

#Trump has stripped #security #clearances from employees at #Perkins #Coie, a law firm paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton that funded the research behind the ‘ #Trump - #Russia’ dossier during the 2016 election.

#Trump has stripped #security #clearances from employees at #Perkins #Coie, a law firm paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton that funded the research behind the ‘ #Trump - #Russia’ dossier during the 2016 election.

#Trump has stripped #security #clearances from employees at #Perkins #Coie, a law firm paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton that funded the research behind the ‘ #Trump - #Russia’ dossier during the 2016 election.

#Trump has stripped #security #clearances from employees at #Perkins #Coie, a law firm paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton that funded the research behind the ‘ #Trump - #Russia’ dossier during the 2016 election.

President #Trump has stripped #security #clearances from employees at #Perkins #Coie, a law firm paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton that funded the research behind the ‘ #Trump - #Russia’ dossier during the 2016 election.

President #Trump has stripped #security #clearances from employees at #Perkins #Coie, a law firm paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton that funded the research behind the ‘ #Trump - #Russia’ dossier during the 2016 election.

And

Proud tonight the pine cocks
crowing on the top of Cnoc an Ra,
straight their backs in the moonlight –
they are not the wood I love.

MacLean was writing in the 1930s, in the shadow of #fascism –but still in living memory of the #Clearances – about what we'd now call "invasive species".

He saw them as equivalents. People and place and land and forest, they are all one thing,

And

Proud tonight the pine cocks
crowing on the top of Cnoc an Ra,
straight their backs in the moonlight –
they are not the wood I love.

MacLean was writing in the 1930s, in the shadow of #fascism –but still in living memory of the #Clearances – about what we'd now call "invasive species".

He saw them as equivalents. People and place and land and forest, they are all one thing,

And

Proud tonight the pine cocks
crowing on the top of Cnoc an Ra,
straight their backs in the moonlight –
they are not the wood I love.

MacLean was writing in the 1930s, in the shadow of #fascism –but still in living memory of the #Clearances – about what we'd now call "invasive species".

He saw them as equivalents. People and place and land and forest, they are all one thing,

And

Proud tonight the pine cocks
crowing on the top of Cnoc an Ra,
straight their backs in the moonlight –
they are not the wood I love.

MacLean was writing in the 1930s, in the shadow of #fascism –but still in living memory of the #Clearances – about what we'd now call "invasive species".

He saw them as equivalents. People and place and land and forest, they are all one thing,

And

Proud tonight the pine cocks
crowing on the top of Cnoc an Ra,
straight their backs in the moonlight –
they are not the wood I love.

MacLean was writing in the 1930s, in the shadow of #fascism –but still in living memory of the #Clearances – about what we'd now call "invasive species".

He saw them as equivalents. People and place and land and forest, they are all one thing,

No security clearances necessary for Trump people
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/memorandum-to-resolve-the-backlog-of-security-clearances-for-executive-office-of-the-president-personnel/
#trump #security #clearances

No security clearances necessary for Trump people
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/memorandum-to-resolve-the-backlog-of-security-clearances-for-executive-office-of-the-president-personnel/
#trump #security #clearances

No security clearances necessary for Trump people
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/memorandum-to-resolve-the-backlog-of-security-clearances-for-executive-office-of-the-president-personnel/
#trump #security #clearances

No security clearances necessary for Trump people
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/memorandum-to-resolve-the-backlog-of-security-clearances-for-executive-office-of-the-president-personnel/
#trump #security #clearances

No security clearances necessary for Trump people
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/memorandum-to-resolve-the-backlog-of-security-clearances-for-executive-office-of-the-president-personnel/
#trump #security #clearances

@wood5y Nearly the whole of the island of Rousay #Orkney was owned by retired ‘hero’ of Lucknow and the Indian Mutiny, General Frederick William Traill-Burroughs, the Little General. He cleared Rousay of many of its people who had farmed the land for generations. #Clearances
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/01/31/the-rousay-clearances-part-2/

@wood5y Nearly the whole of the island of Rousay #Orkney was owned by retired ‘hero’ of Lucknow and the Indian Mutiny, General Frederick William Traill-Burroughs, the Little General. He cleared Rousay of many of its people who had farmed the land for generations. #Clearances
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/01/31/the-rousay-clearances-part-2/

@wood5y Nearly the whole of the island of Rousay #Orkney was owned by retired ‘hero’ of Lucknow and the Indian Mutiny, General Frederick William Traill-Burroughs, the Little General. He cleared Rousay of many of its people who had farmed the land for generations. #Clearances
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/01/31/the-rousay-clearances-part-2/

@wood5y Nearly the whole of the island of Rousay #Orkney was owned by retired ‘hero’ of Lucknow and the Indian Mutiny, General Frederick William Traill-Burroughs, the Little General. He cleared Rousay of many of its people who had farmed the land for generations. #Clearances
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/01/31/the-rousay-clearances-part-2/

@wood5y Nearly the whole of the island of Rousay #Orkney was owned by retired ‘hero’ of Lucknow and the Indian Mutiny, General Frederick William Traill-Burroughs, the Little General. He cleared Rousay of many of its people who had farmed the land for generations. #Clearances
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/01/31/the-rousay-clearances-part-2/

Soraidh slàn do Niteworks. Siad a bha air ghleus an Dùn Èideann an oidhche roimhe.

Was good to catch Niteworks on their farewell tour the other night.

#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #IsleOfMull #Clearances #IsleOfSkye #Scotland #MastoDaoine #Niteworks #folk #electronica

https://youtu.be/p-orRduW0xU

Soraidh slàn do Niteworks. Siad a bha air ghleus an Dùn Èideann an oidhche roimhe.

Was good to catch Niteworks on their farewell tour the other night.

#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #IsleOfMull #Clearances #IsleOfSkye #Scotland #MastoDaoine #Niteworks #folk #electronica

https://youtu.be/p-orRduW0xU

Soraidh slàn do Niteworks. Siad a bha air ghleus an Dùn Èideann an oidhche roimhe.

Was good to catch Niteworks on their farewell tour the other night.

#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #IsleOfMull #Clearances #IsleOfSkye #Scotland #MastoDaoine #Niteworks #folk #electronica

https://youtu.be/p-orRduW0xU

Soraidh slàn do Niteworks. Siad a bha air ghleus an Dùn Èideann an oidhche roimhe.

Was good to catch Niteworks on their farewell tour the other night.

#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #IsleOfMull #Clearances #IsleOfSkye #Scotland #MastoDaoine #Niteworks #folk #electronica

https://youtu.be/p-orRduW0xU

Soriadh slàn do Niteworks. Siad a bha air ghleus an Dùn Èideann an oidhche roimhe.

Was good to catch Niteworks on their farewell tour the other night.

#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #IsleOfMull #Clearances #IsleOfSkye #Scotland #MastoDaoine #Niteworks #folk #electronica

https://youtu.be/p-orRduW0xU

@welshpixie I love a forest me.
Sadly not too many trees at all in the fierce North West coast of Scotland
They were all removed to grow sheep!!
#Clearances
But, I do love a forest me
,😃
#NotPoetry

@welshpixie I love a forest me.
Sadly not too many trees at all in the fierce North West coast of Scotland
They were all removed to grow sheep!!
#Clearances
But, I do love a forest me
,😃
#NotPoetry

@welshpixie I love a forest me.
Sadly not too many trees at all in the fierce North West coast of Scotland
They were all removed to grow sheep!!
#Clearances
But, I do love a forest me
,😃
#NotPoetry

@welshpixie I love a forest me.
Sadly not too many trees at all in the fierce North West coast of Scotland
They were all removed to grow sheep!!
#Clearances
But, I do love a forest me
,😃
#NotPoetry

The poignant Emigrants Statue overlooking Helmsdale in Sutherland. It commemorates "the people of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland who, in the face of great adversity, sought freedom, hope and justice beyond these shores." More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/helmsdale/emigrants/index.html

#Scotland #EmigrantsStatue #Statue #Clearances #Helmsdale #Sutherland #UndiscoveredScotland