Mastodawn

Strathnaver in northern Sutherland: a place whose beauty on a day like the one shown here belies a dark history, a history of clearance that explains how quiet it can seem today. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/bettyhill/strathnaver/index.html

#Scotland #Sutherland #Strathnaver #Loch #Bracken #Clearances

Wen Jan 31

The battle of Skye crofters and Glasgow police that changed history

A little useful history (always good to be reminded). Outside of Scotland, in fact even the Highlands the deeper impact of the Clearances is not appreciated.

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25813394.battle-skye-crofters-glasgow-police-changed-history/

#History #Scotland #Clearances

Assoc for Scottish Literature May 11, 2025

A liuthad soitheach a dh’fhàg ar dùthaich
le sgiathan geala a’ toirt Chanada orra.
Tha iad mar neapaigearan ’nar cuimhne
’s an sàl mar dheoirean,
’s anns na croinn aca seòladairean a’ seinn
mar eòin air gheugan…

Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn, “Na h-Eilthirich” (Iain Crichton Smith, “The Exiles”)
Published in Nua-Bhardachd Gaidhlig / Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems, @canongatebooks 1999

https://canongate.co.uk/books/193-modern-scottish-gaelic-poems-a-bilingual-anthology/

#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poem #poetry #Clearances #emigration #exile

Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems by Donald MacAulay - Canongate Books

Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems - A Bilingual Anthology by Donald MacAulay - paperback (9780862414948) published by Canongate. This indispensable anthology contains selections of the best work by Scotland’s most acclaimed modern Gaelic poets

Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱 ☮🕊️Mar 7, 2025

President #Trump has stripped #security #clearances from employees at #Perkins #Coie, a law firm paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton that funded the research behind the ‘ #Trump - #Russia’ dossier during the 2016 election.

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Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱☮🕊️Mar 7, 2025

#Trump has stripped #security #clearances from employees at #Perkins #Coie, a law firm paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton that funded the research behind the ‘ #Trump - #Russia’ dossier during the 2016 election.

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David O'Brien Feb 18, 2025

And

Proud tonight the pine cocks
crowing on the top of Cnoc an Ra,
straight their backs in the moonlight –
they are not the wood I love.

MacLean was writing in the 1930s, in the shadow of #fascism –but still in living memory of the #Clearances – about what we'd now call "invasive species".

He saw them as equivalents. People and place and land and forest, they are all one thing,

Erik Jonker Jan 21, 2025

No security clearances necessary for Trump people
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/memorandum-to-resolve-the-backlog-of-security-clearances-for-executive-office-of-the-president-personnel/
#trump #security #clearances

Memorandum to Resolve the Backlog of Security Clearances for Executive Office of the President Personnel

January 20, 2025 MEMORANDUM TO THE WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL SUBJECT: Memorandum to Resolve the Backlog of Security Clearances for

The White House

Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd Nov 22, 2024

@wood5y Nearly the whole of the island of Rousay #Orkney was owned by retired ‘hero’ of Lucknow and the Indian Mutiny, General Frederick William Traill-Burroughs, the Little General. He cleared Rousay of many of its people who had farmed the land for generations. #Clearances
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/01/31/the-rousay-clearances-part-2/

The Rousay Clearances Part 2

“Although I may have to leave the land, I am prepared to speak the truth, and will not be cowed by landlordism. I consider as Burns says – ‘a man’s a man for a’ that’” James Leonard

The Orkney News