2/8
“The representation in Gaelic literature of Culloden […] makes a study of that literature, even in translation, a vital corrective to that of more exclusively English or Scottish literature in Scots & English.”

—Prof Alan Riach

https://www.thenational.scot/news/18371691.poetry-battle-culloden-signified/

#Scottish #literature #history #Gaelic #Jacobite #Culloden

3/8

In “Highland Songs of the ’45”, the National Trust for Scotland shares original audio recordings of #Gaelic songs collected by archivist John Lorne Campbell from Canna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3knfjXaYI

#Scottish #literature #history #Jacobite #Culloden #song

4/8

Shedding New Light on the Jacobites

“The Lyon in Mourning” manuscript, held by the National Library of Scotland, contains conversations, narrative accounts, poems, songs, letters & more, relating to the 1745 Jacobite rising. In this talk given in 2023, Prof Leith Davis discusses the latest findings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5s-zGX49O0

#Scottish #literature #history #Jacobite #Culloden #manuscript #18thcentury

5/8

“The view of the Jacobites as quasi-colonial primitives is persistent […] In the Year of the Prince, the last centrally Scottish army mounted serious military opposition to the British government. The seriousness of Jacobitism is ignored because the power of the threat undermines the story of British unity.”

—Prof Murray Pittock on “Whig History” & Culloden

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2008/11/jacobitism-in-history/

#Scottish #literature #history #Jacobite #18thcentury #Culloden

6/8

CAMPBELL OF KILMOHR
a play in one act
J.A. Ferguson

J.A. Ferguson’s CAMPBELL OF KILMOHR is set during the bloody aftermath of the battle of Culloden. Written on the eve of the First World War, CAMPBELL OF KILMOHR revolves around themes of loyalty, sacrifice, & betrayal, the power of the State & the potential for the corruption of that power

Free PDF download:
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/campbell-of-kilmohr/

#Scottish #literature #20thCentury #drama #theatre #play #Jacobite #Culloden

7/8

You understand it? How they returned from Culloden
over the soggy moors aslant, each cap
at the low ebb no new full tide could pardon…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “Culloden and After”
Published in New Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2011)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857549607/new-collected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Culloden