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In memoriam: Liam Mac ’Ille Iosa
(Hugh MacDiarmid) |
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…O Liam, Liam, sheer white top speeding full
sail,
Lost world of Gaeldom, further and further away from me,
How can I follow, Albannach, how reachieve
The unsearchable masterpiece?
No matter what all other men think, desire and feel
For Scotland today, we irreconcilables carry our appeal
Completely over their heads and straight to God home… |
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| Hugh MacDiarmid’s elegy for William Gillies:
founder of the Scots National League, the direct fore-runner of
today’s Scottish National Party, and first Editor of the “Scots
Independent” newspaper. He was a fluent Gaelic speaker, who
campaigned with the crofters’ champion John Murdoch, who also
learned Irish and Welsh, and who wrote Gaelic plays, articles and
speeches. William Gillies was Anne Lorne Gillies’ paternal
grandfather. |
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