An Cuilithionn 1939 / The Cuillin 1939 & Unpublished Poems
Christopher Whyte (Editor)
The work of Somhairle MacGill-Eain, the greatest Gaelic poet of the twentieth century, has a significance which echoes far beyond the confines of his time, his country and his language
Includes a recently discovered critical essay by Somhairle MacGill-Eain ‘Five Gaelic poems – regional, national or European?’ Also work by Emma Dymock, Kate Louise Mathis, Thomas Clancy and Ronald Black.
In 1940, in Barra in the Outer Hebrides, an 18-year-old woman, Flòraidh, is persuaded to leave her island home when she learns that her stepmother intends to marry her off to the local shopkeeper. She follows her enigmatic friend Lavinia to the city and changes her identity to Laura, like a butterfly, leaving her chrysalis behind, as they join the war effort.
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