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LAST week I said I would be writing about the early years of the Union after 1707 and telling the untold story – never mentioned by the Unionists – of how that Union nearly collapsed and was quickly recognised as a disastrous deal for Scotland, even by those who had helped to bring it about. I crave your indulgence and I will definitely return to the subject next week, but when you receive a cry for help from one of Scotland’s greatest modern-day cultural figures, I have to respond, so please consider this an emergency column to right a perceived wrong. For tomorrow is the bicentenary of the birth of Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, Great (or big) Mary of the Songs, a truly influential songstress and a towering presence in Gaelic culture. Màiri Mhòr was so-called because she was literally big being 5’ 9” tall and latterly quite rotund.
By Alan Riach Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University
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Kathleen MacInnes plays Kay Matheson, who helped bring the Stone of Destiny back to Scotland in 1950, in the film An Ceasnachadh/Interrogation of a Highland Lass DUNCAN Ban MacIntyre’s last visit to Ben Dorain on September 19, 1802 prompted the following day his composition, “Last Leave-taking of the Bens”, a moving farewell to the mountains, especially Ben Dorain, which his 18th-century poetry sang of so piercingly. It’s an old man’s elegy recollecting the energies of youth, the chase of the greyhound quickening as its owner’s breath becomes more laboured.
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