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T1 - Somersaulting out of a Cave of Gold
T2 - thoughts on the current and future condition of the Gàidhealtachd
AU - MacKinnon, Iain
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PY - 2022/9/22
Y1 - 2022/9/22
N2 - In this essay I consider two important poetic invocations of the Gaelic Otherworld that deal with isolated figures struggling – and without human support – to understand and bring back to reality their own and their culture’s sincere beliefs and feelings. One is Sorley MacLean’s Uamha ‘n Òir [‘The Cave of Gold’], a poem of resolute struggle and despair which has variously haunted, plagued, and inspired me for fifteen years.
AB - In this essay I consider two important poetic invocations of the Gaelic Otherworld that deal with isolated figures struggling – and without human support – to understand and bring back to reality their own and their culture’s sincere beliefs and feelings. One is Sorley MacLean’s Uamha ‘n Òir [‘The Cave of Gold’], a poem of resolute struggle and despair which has variously haunted, plagued, and inspired me for fifteen years.
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