Sorley MacLean once said that his poetry constituted "a quarrel with myself for my lack of single-mindedness". But to lack single-mindedness is no bad thing for a poet, and the lyric ideal to which ...

SORLEY MacLean, who died 15 years ago, has been the principal poetic experience of my life (along with the songs of Burns), and it is satisfying at the end of 2011, the centenary of his birth, to see ...

THE international property consultants currently trying to sell the Cuillins for #10m, have had to issue a public and unreserved apology to the family of the late poet Sorley Maclean for using his ...

SEAMUS Heaney, one of the world's finest writers and already famed for turning the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf into a bestseller, has now turned his acclaimed translating skills to one of the key works ...

Sorley MacLean, who was born on the Island of Raasay in 1911 and died in 1996 on the neighbouring island of Skye, lived two lives as a poet. The first was when he was writing the epoch-making poems ...

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A gathering of Gaelic musical talent will celebrate the work of Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain) in this concert, which will feature both vocal settings of the poet’s work and instrumental ...

An exploration of the life and career of Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean, whose work is celebrated today both nationally and internationally. Show more Tha seasamh an da chuid aig ìre nàiseanta agus ...