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Ronald Black is a former Senior Lecturer in Celtic in the University of Edinburgh and the editor of An Tuil: Anthology of 20th Century Scottish Gaelic Verse (Polygon, 1999). His latest book is The Campbells of the Ark: Men of Argyll in 1745 (John Donald, 2017).
‘Stretch, pull and bend.’ These are words as powerful for the oarsman as ‘On your marks, get set, go’ for the runner or ‘Load, aim, fire’ for the soldier. No doubt there are many other such triads. These things have a special force of their own, all to do with testing the limits of human […]
Sorley MacLean | Somhairle MacGill-Eain (1911–1996), and Derick Thomson | Ruaraidh MacThòmais (1921–2012), were the two leading Scottish Gaelic poets of the twentieth century. Although the difference in age between them was not great, it is fair to say that MacLean’s era was the second quarter of the century, while Thomson dominated the fifty years […]