Hallaig
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Hallaig is the most recognized poem of Sorley MacLean, an important Scottish poet of the 20th century. After writing it, MacLean rose to fame in the English-speaking world. It was originally written i
Hallaig
Two views of the ruins of Hallaig
Scotland, Raasay, Hallaig, Inner Sound
Highland Clearances
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The Highland Clearances were the evictions of a significant number of tenants in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, mostly in two phases from 1750 to 1860.
Hallaig
…author decided to evoke the community of this abandoned village in his poem. It is a reflection on the nature of time and the historical impact of the Highland Clearances leaving an empty landscape populated only by the ghosts of the evicted and those forced to emigrate. Hallaig was written in Edinburgh about 100 years…
Ruined croft houses on Fuaigh Mòr in Loch Roag. The island was cleared of its inhabitants in 1841 and is now used only for grazing sheep.
The remains of old run rig strips beside Loch Eynort, Isle of Skye
Ruins of the Badbea longhouses with the 1911 monument in the background
Ormaig was once the principal settlement on the Isle of Ulva near Mull. It had been inhabited since prehistoric times, until it was cleared by Francis William Clark in the mid-19th century.