Kara Ghobhainn Smith
Gillebrìde MacMillanÒran ùr a rinn mi bho chionn ghoirid gus eilthireachd #Marloch is #Metagama ann an 1923 a chomharrachadh
-Leaving home forever #Metagama April 23, 1923-
‘From the lone shieling of the misty island
mountains divide us, and the waste is seas-
Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland,
And we in dreams behold the Hebrides.’
(1829)
‘From the lone shieling of the misty island
mountains divide us, and the waste is seas-
Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland,
And we in dreams behold the Hebrides.’
(1829)
All these years, knowing the story of the #Metagama 1923 🛳, I still cannot read this and not be brought to tears 😥
'On the North shore of Lewis the heather fires were burning farewell across the quiet wind to the Metagama as she swung round to the open sea. Lights flashed in code, 'SS METAGAMA and GOODBYE.''
🖋James Shaw Grant & Jim Wilkie
'On the North shore of Lewis the heather fires were burning farewell across the quiet wind to the Metagama as she swung round to the open sea. Lights flashed in code, 'SS METAGAMA and GOODBYE.''
🖋James Shaw Grant & Jim Wilkie
PMIC"As we draw close to the 100th anniversary of the start in 1923 of the mass emigrations of the 1920s, evoked in particular by the names 'Metagama' and 'Marloch', we can clearly their impact on the population of Harris."
http://direcleit.blogspot.com/2022/09/civil-parish-of-harris-population-1801.html
#harris #hebrides #emigration #metagama #marloch #1923 #diaspora #westernisles #socialhistory #genealogy
