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	Clan MacLean: Sorley MacLean Tribute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sorley MacLean was born on October 26, 1911 in the village of Osgaig on the island of Raasay, the long narrow island which lies between Skye and the Scottish mainland.
		MacLean went to school in Portree on the island of Skye and later to the University of Edinburgh, where he took his degree with honors in English literature.
		Sorley MacLean became a teacher, first in Tobermory on Mull and later in Ross, on Skye and in Edinburgh and remained in that profession all his working life.
	www.maclean.org /clan-maclean-articles/clan-maclean-tribute-to-sorley.htm (483 words)

	Books \| The trance and the translation
		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.
		In the case of MacLean, a tradition that began with the troubadours, one which involved ardent devotion to the lady and chivalrous engagement with the arts of war, was drastically revised.
		Which is to say that MacLean stuck to his guns in all kinds of ways, not least in his determination to let his poetry stand as the pure thing it was in Gaelic and not to attempt anything in his own translations other than a faithful account of the meaning in an almost word-for-word way.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4556921-99936,00.html (1964 words)

	Douglas Young and Sorley MacLean
		Auntran Blads is dedicated to MacLean and George Campbell Hay (and also includes a translation of the latter's Grunnd na Mara), and one of its avowed aims was to bring their work to the attention of the Lowland Scots poetry-reading public.
		MacLean himself translated this as "the weakness of sorrow", and Young's phrase is less sympathetic in tone as well as more disagreeably concrete in imagery than this.
		"MacLean: musician manqué (and a composer's collaboration)", in Ross and Hendry 1986, op.
	www2.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/STELLA/STARN/lang/GAELIC/maclean.htm (3854 words)

	BBC - Writing Scotland - Sorley Maclean
		Sorley MacLean was born at Osgaig on the island of Rasaay on 26 October 1911.
		It is often said that what Hugh MacDiarmid did for Scots, Sorley MacLean did for Gaelic, sparking a Gaelic renaissance in Scottish literature in line with the earlier 'Scottish Renaissance', as evinced in the work of George Campbell Hay, Derick Thomson and Iain Crichton Smith.
		MacLean's work was virtually unknown outside Gaelic-speaking circles until the 1970s, when Gordon Wright published Four Points of a Saltire - poems from George Campbell Hay, Stuart MacGregor, William Neill and Sorley MacLean.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/writers/sorley_maclean (432 words)

	Clan MacLean: Sorley MacLean Tribute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It pained MacLean to think that a time would come when no one would understand even a line of a Gaelic song and his poems speak of his fair love with the maimed body who was dying - the songs and poetic tradition of his language.
		Sorley MacLean is survived by his wife, Renee, two daughters and brothers and a sister.
		Sorley MacLean was cut from whole cloth and there can be no question that it was tartan--the MacLean tartan we'd like to believe, but the Nicholsons and the MacLeods also had claim to him.
	www.maclean.org /clan-maclean-articles/clan-maclean-tribute-to-sorley-2.htm (398 words)

	Will Maclean: Driftworks
		Fortunately, Maclean’s work does not limit itself to being a tragic requiem; the sheer beauty and poetry of his aesthetic and the refined rigour of his collecting of objects, tokens and totems is inspiring and informative.
		Scottish poet Sorley Maclean observed that Will Maclean was acutely aware ‘that the local and contemporary and the present, and near and very distant past are in many ways continuous, and that the local and parochial are often poignant and universal’.
		Maclean has remained close to Highland life, and his art has been shaped by the landscape and sea as well as by the mythology and poetry; he particularly admires the poetry of Sorley Maclean.
	www.studio-international.co.uk /reports/maclean_will.asp (1939 words)

	Ar Turas - Sorley McLean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sorley Maclean died on 24th November 1996, aged eighty five.
		Sorley was educated in Raasay and Portree schools and at the University of Edinburgh, where, in 1933, he graduated with first class honours in English.
		Sorley Maclean was the recipient of many honours, among them honorary doctorates from Dundee, Edinburgh, the National Library of Ireland and Glasgow, the MacVitie Prize for Literature and the Queen's Medal for Poetry, Somhairle was made Freeman of Skye and Lochalsh in 1987.
	www.ar-turas.co.uk /Pages/writers/McLean.htm (1045 words)

	Sorley MacLean - Books From Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sorley Maclean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain) is reckoned to be one of the finest poets Scotland has had.
		Born on the island of Raasay in 1911, Maclean came from a family steeped in Gaelic culture.
		Maclean's output, unlike some other of the poets of his generation, was not prolific but his books and poems have become iconic.
	www.booksfromscotland.com /Authors/Sorley-Maclean (371 words)

	tradmusic.com is a traditional, folk music resource, folk music international gig guide and musical instrument maker ...
		Urras Shomhairle, The Sorley MacLean Trust, is seeking to appoint a Director to co-ordinate the development and delivery of a major musical project for Scotland’s Year of Highland Culture in 2007.
		The Sorley MacLean Trust exists to perpetuate the memory of Sorley MacLean, who is widely regarded as one of Scotland’s most influential literary figures and a poet of world stature, his work, and the Gaelic language.
		The Sorley MacLean Trust operates an equal opportunities policy and is committed to promoting understanding and enactment of the principles and practices of equality and justice.
	www.tradmusic.com /newspage.asp?newsID=1623 (656 words)

	Sorely Missed, by Stuart Kelly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		BACK TO Sorley Maclean (Somhairle Macgill-eian) is widely acknowledged as the pre-eminent Scottish Gaelic poet of the twentieth century, not just for the palpable beauty of his lyric writing, but for the manner in which he resituated Gaelic poetics within a wider, European, and Modernistic context, without sacrificing its indigenous traditions and methods.
		MacLean was born on Raasay in 1911, and studied under Herbert Grierson at Edinburgh University.
		MacLean made no attempt whatsoever to replicate in English the rhyme schemes, textures of register or chains of phonetic effect which characterise the Gaelic.
	www.poetrysociety.org.uk /review/pr92-4/kelly.htm (958 words)

	Gaelic Scottish web site
		MacLean was also a scholar of the Highlands and had a tremendous interest in Highland genealogy.
		MacLean admired passion above all in poetry and the greatest poetry to him was the lyric.
		"What MacDiarmid did for Scots, Sorley MacLean did for Gaelic, and it is heartening to reflect that the two poetic geniuses of the 20th century in Scotland wrote in Gaelic and one in Scots.
	www.gaelicscottish.co.uk /docs/sorley.htm (1651 words)

	Rambles: Sorley MacLean, Somhairle MacGill-Eain, Poems to Eimhir, Dain do Eimhir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although Sorley MacLean's sequence Poems to Eimhir is recognised as one of his greatest works, it was only published in part during his lifetime.
		MacLean (1911-1996) wrote the bulk of the sequence between 1939 and '41, but seemed to turn against it later in life presumably because of some of the painful memories it evoked for him.
		MacLean's poetry is always challenging to the reader, particularly to those of us having to rely on the complexity of the translation (although I understand even in the original it is difficult).
	www.rambles.net /maclean_eimhir02.html (405 words)

	Sorley Maclean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MacLean was born on the Island of Raasay in 1911 and made his poetic reputation with a series of poems Dain do Eihhir, written in the political cauldron of the 1930's, with the Spanish Civil War featuring as the backcloth to much of the personal turmoil in the poems.
		MacLean's passion for justice, democracy and freedom, was most powerfully demonstrated towards his own people and culture, in several poems crying against the oppression that had been visited upon the Highlands through the Clearances.
		Maclean was in his 60s when he composed the poem Screapadal which makes a very powerful connection between the oppression of the Clearances and the oppression of nuclear weapons.
	www.banthebomb.org /archives/magazine/nfsa5.htm (208 words)

	Maclean
		Sorley Maclean is buried in the cemetery in front of Àros, south of Portree on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
		Maclean was born at Osgaig on the island of Raasay in 1911 into a Gaelic speaking community.
		Seamus Heaney, who first met Maclean at a poetry reading at the Abbey Theatre Dublin, was one of his greatest admirers and subsequently worked on translations of his work.
	www.poetsgraves.co.uk /maclean.htm (273 words)

	The Scotsman - S2 - Sorley missed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MacLean was born into a family of tradition-bearers and was thus endowed with a fantastically rich Gaelic and knowledge of Celtic mythology and song.
		He became overtly political (John MacLean, the communist and revolutionary was, to Sorley, "a saint and a hero").
		MacLean’s fusion of sumptuous Gaelic, boundless sensuality and an immense love of mankind could set a stone heart weeping.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /s2.cfm?id=867842002 (713 words)

	Scottish Authors
		Articles commemorating the passing of Sorley MacLean were a "Feature of the week" on The Capital Scot and may be found at Sorley MacLean - an Obituary.
		"Sorley MacLean is undisputedly one of the greatest writers in Gaelic, and his death in 1998 occasioned a tremendous outpouring of tributes honouring his contribution to Gaelic culture.
		MacLean was a great love poet (who had wished to go to Spain but was unable to do so for family reasons), a great political poet and also a great war poet.
	thecapitalscot.com /scotvariety/generalauthors.html (1507 words)

	Clan Maclean Shield at St Columba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The name MacLean is rendered in gaelic "MacGille Eoin" or "son of the servant of St. John".
		The MacLeans were united with their Campbell in-laws in a mutual dislike of the MacDonald clan, one of the most powerful families in the Western Isles.
		The Macleans, who were in possession, claimed to hold the lands in dispute as tenants of the crown, but the privy council decided that Macdonald of Isla was really the crown tenant.
	www.highlandcathedral.org /armorial/maclean.asp (576 words)

	West Highland Free Press Local Newspaper for the Isle of Skye and Western Isles in the Gaelic and English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was the 150th anniversary of the forced clearance of the Raasay township and the 50th anniversary of Sorley MacLean's astonishing elegy to the ghosts of his forebears.
		In Peighinn a' Chorrain Sorley MacLean had his back to the Cuillins, rising steeply behind him "on the other side of sorrow", and his face to the woods of Raasay.
		Sorley MacLean was born in 1911 at Oscaig on the "solitary brown waste" of the western littoral of Raasay, into a family with characteristically long and vivid memories.
	www.whfp.com /1676/top2.html (2422 words)

	Sorley Maclean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sorley Maclean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain) was a key force in the revitalising of the Gaelic language.
		Born in 1911 on the island of Raasay, he studied at the University of Edinburgh, took up teaching as a career, and was for many years head teacher at Plockton High School.
		Honoured with many major awards, including the Queen's Medal for Poetry, Sorley Maclean was the greatest Gaelic poet of the 20th century.
	www.nls.uk /writestuff/heads/wee-maclean.html (207 words)

	Overview of Sorley MacLean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MacLean re-established Gaelic as a serious literary language, much in the same way his friend Hugh MacDiarmid (1892 - 1978) had done for the Scots language, and became one of the greatest Gaelic poets.
		MacLean's output was relatively sparse; his published collections include Spring Tide and Neap Tide (1972), Ris a' Bhruthaich (1985) and From Wood to Ridge (1989).
		MacLean received many accolades, perhaps the most important of which was the Queen's Medal for Poetry.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst424.html (306 words)

	GSI Online \| Somhairle MacIllEain Information
		Sorley Maclean, Bard to the Gaelic Society of Inverness Society and doyen of contemporary Gaelic poets, died on 24th November 1996, aged eighty five.
		His early contributions to the Transactions appear under the name of Samuel Maclean (the form in the state register), later papers were published under the name Sam Maclean.
		He was born on 26th October 1911 in Oscaig, Isle of Raasay, the second son of Malcolm Maclean, the island’s tailor, and Christina Nicolson a native of the district of Braes, opposite Raasay, in Skye.
	www.gsi.org.uk /sorley1.htm (663 words)

	- Entries from Thursday, July 7. 2005
		Sorley's work is hard to find in English, you have to read Scots-Gaelic to get his work on the web, I am ordering a book from the UK with translations soon.
		Sorley was Scots, and Seamus and A.E. Hail/Hailed from Ireland.
		Sorley was a key force in the revitalising of the Gaelic language.
	www.earthrites.org /turfing/index.php?/archives/2005/07/07.html (1215 words)

	Sorley MacLean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He served in North Africa during World War II and was wounded on three occasions, once severely.
		MacLean turned away from the Presbyterian faith of his community in his early teens.
		He married Catherine (more often known as Renee) Cameron, the daughter of Inverness builder Kenneth Cameron of "Cameron and Munro".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sorley_MacLean (408 words)

	Scotland Guide - Literature and Poetry - Obituary of Sorley MacLean
		[Trans: It was Sorley, this talented, thoughtful, artistic man who was the bridge between ages, Sorley was full of surprises.
		A wonder that his book "Poems to Eimhir and Other Poems" was of such an level that Gaelic students of my generation remember where they were the first time they opened it.
		Let us make certain then that in the world of Gaelic there is an equal opportunity for our children to lift their voices in the 21st century as Sorley did.
	www.siliconglen.com /Scotland/5_12.html (2406 words)

	The Scottish Poetry Library
		Sorley MacLean, born on the Isle of Raasay in 1911 into a family tradition still rich in the Gaelic cultural experience, particularly in song, was a highly influential figure at the heart of the Gaelic renaissance in Scotland, and became instrumental in preserving the teaching of Gaelic in Scottish schools.
		Of his readings, Seamus Heaney has written, 'MacLean's voice had a certain bardic weirdness that sounded both stricken and enraptured'.
		Never a 'full-time' poet, MacLean once described his way of writing: 'I brood over something until a rhythm comes, as a more or less tight rope to cross the abyss of silence'.
	www.spl.org.uk /poets_a-z/maclean.html (214 words)

	Sorley MacLean
		A native of Raasay, Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain) was at the forefront of the 20th century revival of Gaelic poetry.
		Although he produced his early poetry in English, he soon returned to his ancestral roots and in 1943 produced his masterly collection, Dain do Eimhir, containing his love poetry to the legendary Eimhir of the early Irish sagas.
		Influenced by traditional Gaelic song and literature, and by the efforts of the other Scottish Renaissance poets like MacDiarmid, MacLean reinvgorated Gaelic as a literary language tradition.
	www.visitscotland.com /library/SorleyMacLean (127 words)

	The Scottish Poetry Library - Poets
		Sorley MacLean, born on the Isle of Raasay into a family tradition still rich in the Gaelic cultural experience, particularly in song, was a highly influential figure at the heart of the Gaelic renaissance in Scotland, and became instrumental in preserving the teaching of Gaelic in Scottish schools.
		A collection by the poet from that decade is considered in detail, with references given to a range of other work by them held in the Library, including audio recordings and background material, as well as a selection of weblinks.
		Sorley Maclean, 17 Poems for 6d: in Gaelic, Scots and English (1940) (with Robert Garioch).
	sites.scran.ac.uk /scottish_poetry_library/poets_sorleymaclean.html (400 words)

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