biography
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Maclean, Sorley
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Gaelic Somhairle MacGill-Eain
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pronunciation:
[muhklayn]
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| lived:
| (1911–96)
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| biography:
| Gaelic poet, born at Osgaig, I of Raasay, off Skye, Highland, N Scotland, UK. He read English at Edinburgh University (1929–33), and by the end of the 1930s was an established figure on the Scottish literary scene. In 1940 he published Seventeen Poems for Sixpence, which he produced with Robert Garioch, and in 1943, Dàin do Eimhir (Poems to Eimhir), addressed to the legendary Eimhir of the early Irish sagas. A teacher and headmaster until his retirement in 1972, his major collection of poems, Reothairt is Contraigh (Spring Tide and Neap Tide), appeared in 1977. Translations of his work from Gaelic (often made by himself) have been issued in bilingual editions all over the world. |
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