Dépendance et attraction dans la poésie de Màiri MacPherson by Jean Berton

“…Màiri MacPherson’s poetry voices the power of attraction emanating from the Isle of Skye, in the Inner Hebrides. This study means to analyse the elements producing a sense of dependence—nature, the Gaelic language, dispossession and isolation... …”
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Raconter les Highland Clearances : Fluctuations mémorielles et instrumentalisationde la mémoire by Laurence GOURIEVIDIS

“…In Modern Scottish history, few events have had as much resonance and emotional charge as the Highland Clearances, i.e. the evictions of tenants and the social conflicts in northern Scotland and the Hebrides from the middle of the 18th century until 1886, when legislation put an end to large-scale removals by conferring security of tenure on crofters and considerably restricting landowning power. …”
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