Two New Books On The Highland Clearances - Presentation & Reading
8th August 2013
Head along to Caithness Horizons on Sunday 11th August to hear about these two new books.
BEARING THE PEOPLE AWAY
June Skinner Sawyers
Part reference guide, part handbook, part travel guide and part resource in one portable volume, Bearing the People Away uses an encyclopedia format geared toward the general reader. The entries vary in length from brief sentences to several paragraphs. They include major Clearance sites, major and minor figures associated with the Clearances, Clearance-related sites outwith Scotland (significant parts of the Scottish Diaspora as Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand), places and historical events with Clearance and or Highland connections, and recordings, websites and relevant museums and organizations identified with the Highland Clearances.
June Skinner Sawyers is a Scots-born writer who is based in Chicago, USA. She has written or edited more than twenty books, many with a Scottish theme, including popular and regional histories.
PARTING PROPHECY POETRY
F�gradh, F�isneachd, Filidheachd / Parting, Prophecy, Poetry
Duncan Blair, John Alick MacPherson and Michael Linkletter
An T-urr. Donnchadh Bl�rach (1815-1893) ann am Mac-Talla / Rev. Duncan B. Blair (1815-1893) in Mac-Talla
Deasaichte le Seonaidh Ailig Mac A� Phearsain agus M�cheal Linkletter
Edited and translated by John A. Macpherson and Michael Linkletter
Bha an t-Urr. Donnchadh Bl�rach (1815-1893) na �e�laiche-c�nain barraichte, na dheagh bh�rd, agus na dhuine cr�bhach. Mar sgr�obhaiche G�idhlig pongail cha robh duine a thug b�rr air.� Sgr�obh e laoidhean,cumhaidhean agus d�in is �rain aotrom. Nochd raon farsaing de na sgr�obhaidhean aige ann am Mac-Talla, a� chiad ph�ipear-naidheachd G�idhlig air an t-saoghal, a chaidh a chl�-bhualadh ann an Sidni, Albainn Nuadh, eadar 1892 agus 1904.
Rev. Duncan B. Blair (1815-1893) was �an excellent linguist, a good poet, and a devout man. As an accurate writer of Gaelic he had no superior.� Blair composed sacred poems, laments and secular poems and songs. Mac-Talla, the first Gaelic newspaper in the world was published in Sydney, Nova Scotia, between 1892 and 1904. Blair�s contributions to Mac-Talla were extensive.
Anns a� Gh�idhlig th�sail, air a h-eadar-theangachadh gu Beurla le Seonaidh Ailig Mac a�
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