{"id":58942,"date":"2015-10-27T18:59:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/?p=58942"},"modified":"2015-10-27T18:59:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:59:13","slug":"our-children-are-bred-for-emigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/?p=58942","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Our children are bred for emigration&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Failte-gu-Alba-Welcome-to-Scotland-panel-2012-Scotiana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-57795\" alt=\"NYFG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Failte-gu-Alba-Welcome-to-Scotland-panel-2012-Scotiana-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>Yesterday was\u00a0the birthday of a great Gael. One of the greatest in fact. Poet, story teller and Gaelic cultural warrior Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorely MacLean) was born on Raasay\u00a0on October 26th\u00a0in 1911.<\/p>\n<p>Somhairle died in 1996. Had the Gaelic people, culture and kingdom not been overtaken and marginalized (i.e. stolen) by Anglo aggression, ethnic cleansing\u00a0and forced assimilation, October 26th would likely be a national Gaelic holiday. Somhairle Mac Gill-Eain was a living, breathing 20th century Gaelic hero. He was relevant and influential. But he is largely forgotten by the Gaelic diaspora.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/446img01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58956\" alt=\"446img01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/446img01.jpg\" width=\"149\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a>Here is how the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somhairlemacgilleain.org\/english\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sorley MacLean Trust<\/a> describes Mac Gill-Eain&#8217;s work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;His poetry is characterised by its innovation and boldness, both in its approach and subject matter. In his seminal work D\u00e0in do Eimhir, his poetry speaks of love, choice, suffering and injustice, and simultaneously considers the seismic political events that were to shake Europe to its foundations in the 1930s and 1940s. Events such as the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Fascism were welded together with his own intense personal feelings to produce poetry that has attracted national and international acclaim.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Instead of national celebration, Scotland and the Scottish diaspora &#8211; including the highlands and islands Gaelic diaspora &#8211; allow October 26th to pass by each year in sad, defeated silence. After all, Burns Nights are not that far away. Now <em>there&#8217;s<\/em> something to celebrate, right? Pull on that philabeag (wi&#8217; hope\u00a0it still fits) and dust off the\u00a0Prince Charlie and piper&#8217;s hose\u00a0and claim your\u00a0Scottish\u00a0highland heritage at your local Burns Supper.\u00a0Even though Robert Burns was no Gael. Not even close.<\/p>\n<p>Why does the Gaelic diaspora celebrate other people&#8217;s heroes at the expense of our own? It is done because that is what we have learned to do from those who have crushed our own Gaelic language and heritage and supplanted it with theirs. It is time for that craziness\u00a0to stop. Fondly remember Robert Burns if you like. But if you are a Gael, it is time to discover your own heroes. Celebrate them.<\/p>\n<p>You can read Somhairle&#8217;s words today and you should. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somhairlemacgilleain.org\/english\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sorley MacLean Trust website <\/a>is a fantastic place to begin (don&#8217;t worry, you can read it all in English!). But you can <strong>listen<\/strong> to his thoughts as well. Do not allow this day to pass without hearing Somhairle Mac Gill-Eain&#8217;s own\u00a0voice:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/niteworks\/somhairle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Niteworks&#8217; &#8220;Somhairle&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a fantastic recording backed by a haunting musical soundtrack.\u00a0Great work. Did you hear what the great man said directly to you? He does not allow the Gaelic diaspora off the hook in terms of the root causes of\u00a0the forced\u00a0Gaelic march toward extinction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our culture is\u00a0vitiated by the sentimentality of those who have gone away,&#8221; he says. Mac Gill-Eain&#8217;s word &#8220;<em>vitiate<\/em>&#8221; means to spoil, destroy and\u00a0ignore the validity of a thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Sorley-Maclean-at-Hallaig-Raasay-c.-1982-photo-Dr-Julian-Thoms-Sorley-Maclean-Trust.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-58958\" alt=\"Sorley-Maclean-at-Hallaig-Raasay-c.-1982-photo-Dr-Julian-Thoms-Sorley-Maclean-Trust\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Sorley-Maclean-at-Hallaig-Raasay-c.-1982-photo-Dr-Julian-Thoms-Sorley-Maclean-Trust-300x236.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>Yep. That&#8217;s us celebrating Robert Burns. That&#8217;s us teaching our children to dress up in\u00a0Victorian costumes and\u00a0dance the Anglo created knock off called &#8220;Highland&#8221; dancing and telling them it&#8217;s Gaelic. That&#8217;s us utterly failing to pass-on our Gaelic language and culture to the next generation of Gaelic Americans and instead filling our children&#8217;s wee heads with Anglo baloney and celebrating non-Gaels who actively\u00a0marginalized Gaelic culture. The kids aren&#8217;t buying it by the way.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s us helping to murder our own culture and heritage, year in and year out. Do you think Gaelic revitalization is something that only people in Scotland need to think about? Do you think we Gaelic Americans have no part in it?<\/p>\n<p>Think again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was\u00a0the birthday of a great Gael. One of the greatest in fact. Poet, story teller and Gaelic cultural warrior Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorely MacLean) was born on Raasay\u00a0on October 26th\u00a0in 1911. Somhairle died in 1996. 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