Celtic Connections: Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Celtic Studies. Volume 1: Literature, Language History, Culture

Black, Ronald; Gillies, W. E.; Maolalaigh, R. Ó

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“…So Maclean provided a richly allusive way for his audience outside Gaelic civilisation to understand its dynamic, and for those inside Gaelic civilisation to set themselves and their traditional concerns in a larger international, even cosmic, perspective, so picking up what had once been the responsibility of an organised religion that had become exclusively otherworldly and spiritual. (Black 1999) MacLean's work brings together Gaelic and European models so that Gaelic traditions were innovated; it 'reinvigorated' Gaelic literature in much the same way that Hugh MacDiarmid's work did for Scottish literature as a whole, even if (as the negative responses to MacLean's work show) Gaelic literature was not entirely willing to be reinvigorated.…”

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Sorley MacLean

MacKay

2010

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Institute) and Christopher Whyte (who generously shared a good deal of his own research -published and unpublished -into the 'Dàin do Eimhir' and 'An Cuilithionn' with me). Without their efforts the book would not have been possible; similarly, editorial input of Cairns Craig and Patrick Crotty, and the help of Miriam Gamble, has been invaluable. Any mistakes contained herein are, however, entirely my own. 1 MacLean's parents' patronymics are Calum mac Chaluim 'ic Iain 'ic Tharmaid Mhóir 'ic Iain 'ic Tharmaid and Ciorstaidh Shomhairle Mhóir Iain 'ic Shomhairle Phìobaire 'ic Iain 'ic Eóghain respectively. Although the name on MacLean's birth-certifi cate was Samuel, and he was called Sam by his friends, it is as Sorley -an alternative translation of the Gaelic Somhairle -that MacLean is known as a writer. 2 This is according to the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica (11 th edition). 3 See MacNeacail 1994: Aonghas MacNeacail's discussion of the infl uence of the 1872 Education Act on his own education can be taken as representative of generations of Gaelic speakers.

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Section: Tradition and Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%