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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 282 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 254x178x14 mm, kaal: 499 g, glossary, bibliography, index
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jan-2024
  • Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc
  • ISBN-10: 1476693129
  • ISBN-13: 9781476693125
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 282 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 254x178x14 mm, kaal: 499 g, glossary, bibliography, index
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jan-2024
  • Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc
  • ISBN-10: 1476693129
  • ISBN-13: 9781476693125
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"Rebellion was recurrent in the Highlands because the Gaels (Scoti) were an often-oppressed indigenous minority in the nation, Scotland, to which they gave their name. They spoke a language, Gaelic, few outsiders would learn, and had their own family andsocial system, the clans. Warfare was bloody, culminating in the catastrophe of Culloden Moor during the doomed quest to restore the Stuart kingship to all of Britain. Economic hardship, including the near-genocidal Clearances, in which tenant farmers were replaced with sheep, drove the Gaels from the glens and islands, so that most today live in the diaspora, including millions in North America. Although the Gaels lack a single genetic identity, they clearly draw from distinct roots in the Irish, Norse and Picts. Despite their hardship, the Gaels are also presented in romantic portrayals by the artistic elite of other nations. This book offers ways in which the reader might find roots and ancestry in unfamiliar terrain. Chapters discuss the landscape and language of the Highlanders, the rise of clans, feuds and invasions, and eventual emigration."--

Rebellion was recurrent in the Highlands because the Gaels (Scoti) were an often-oppressed indigenous minority in the nation, Scotland, to which they gave their name. They spoke a language, Gaelic, few outsiders would learn, and had their own family and social system, the clans. Warfare was bloody, culminating in the catastrophe of Culloden Moor during the doomed quest to restore the Stuart kingship to all of Britain. Economic hardship, including the near-genocidal Clearances, in which tenant farmers were replaced with sheep, drove the Gaels from the glens and islands, so that most today live in the diaspora, including millions in North America. Although the Gaels lack a single genetic identity, they clearly draw from distinct roots in the Irish, Norse and Picts. Despite their hardship, the Gaels are also presented in romantic portrayals by the artistic elite of other nations. This book offers ways in which the reader might find roots and ancestry in unfamiliar terrain. Chapters discuss the landscape and language of the Highlanders, the rise of clans, feuds and invasions, and eventual emigration.

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The author has scoured hundreds of arcane tomes and dozens of hard-to-reach archives to fill out a compelling, detailed nuanced story of a marginalized and frequently misrepresented people. But he wears his learning lightly. The reader is thankful that he often takes into account popular perceptions and mis-perceptions. Like cleaning up the distortions of history to be found in Mel Gibsons Braveheart.Douglas Brode, author of Shakespeare in the Movies To plumb the identity an elusive ethnicity with mixed antecedents, the author burrows through a dozen layers of relationships between the Highlands and Ireland. They begin with shared ancient artifacts that predate the arrival of Celtic languages. The Scottish Gaelic and Irish languages both derive from Old Irish despite many distinct differences. Citations of links to Ireland appear all though Highlanders because the story cannot be told without knowing the Irish contributions.Maureen O'Rourke Murphy, past-president, American Conference for Irish Studies Highland history is so remote from us that when persons emerge from the mist they look like ciphers in a folktale. MacKillop seizes these names for us, like Somerled the founder of dynasties, Colkitto the warrior, and the several Lords of the Isles, and puts flesh on them. They made noise and affected lives. So too with Gaelic poets usually known by their nicknames, Rob Donn or Iain Lom. Their verses were memorized and recited for generations.Donna Woolfolk Cross, author of Pope Joan

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Preface

delete deleteThe Limits of Genealogy

A Note on the Words Celt and Celtic

1.The Foundations

delete deleteWhere Are the Highlands?

delete deletePeopling the Landscape

delete deletePrehistoric Testimony

delete deleteThe Scots/Gaels: Ethnogenesis

delete deleteThe Picts

delete deleteIreland and the Highlands

delete deleteThe Norse in the Highlands

delete deleteThe Scottish Gaelic Language

2.Medieval Highlands and Islands

delete deleteThe Hammer of the Norse

delete deleteThe Lordship of the Isles

delete deleteThe Rise of the Clans

delete deleteEnumeration, Rivalries, an Alliance

delete deleteFeuds and Forays

3.The Seventeenth Century

delete deleteOne King, Two Kingdoms

delete deleteWars of the Three Kingdoms, 16391651

delete deleteA Bald Poet

delete deleteDeparture of the Stuarts: The First Three Decades

4.The Dreary Eighteenth Century

delete deleteHighland Society Before Culloden

delete deleteThe Jacobites, 17451746

delete deleteMisery and Emigration

5.Romantic Amelioration

delete deleteImposture in Badenoch

delete deleteIndigenous Voices

delete deletePoetic Admirers from the Outside

delete deleteAbbotsford

delete deleteThe Sett That Expresses

delete deleteA Royal Patroness

delete deleteAway from Balmoral

6.After Romance

delete deleteSheep Over People

delete deleteThe Blight of the Tubers

delete deleteThe Great Disruption of 1843

delete deleteMightier Than a Lord

delete deleteThe Comic Highlander

delete deleteSuas Leis a Ghàidhlig

Coda: Known Up Close Then Seen from Afar

Glossary: Persons, Places, Vocabulary

Bibliography

Index
James MacKillop is an American Celtic scholar, arts journalist and academic living in Jamesville, New York.