#clearances — Public Fediverse posts

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

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 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,

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/

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

@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

I've long stated the "housing crisis" in Highlands and Islands of #Scotland is The #Clearances 2.0.
It is nice to see it finally getting a major newspaper investigation.

disable javascript to get past paywall =)

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24058835.the-scottish-government-sees-highlands-cash-cow/

Fuck me. I was watching a YouTube hiker doing the John 'O Groats trail. All good til she got to Badbea whereupon she proceeded to talk utter shite about the 12 'clever farming families' who lived there. Honest to fuck. #Clearances #rage 🤬

@kevincollier
I don't know the details/politics of this specific case. But I know that #debt is a serious #risk factor for security #clearances. Ask any #intelligence agency.

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

Windows of Arichonan Part 2
#archaeology #Scotland #clearances #Argyll

Love this window at Arichonan, a cleared township in Argyll.
An atmospheric place with a turbulent past.
More info👇
https://forestryandland.gov.scot/learn/heritage/visit-heritage-sites/arichonan

#archaeology #Scotland #clearances #Argyll

I grew up in Lawers on the North shore of Loch Tay. My folks ran the hotel there for a while: In many ways, it was like living in another dimension, not only of sight and sound but of mind; living in a wonderous landscape whose boundaries are those of the past.

Only one bobble-hatted man had the courage to shine a light on this world between the worlds.

#ScottishFolklore #LadyOfLawers #Prophecy #Clearances #TomWeir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th-MkcGw5Uc

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A sign above the urinals in the Lismore Bar, Partick.

#Highlands #Scotland #clearances #respect