Poetry of the clearances.
ONE of Scotland’s most eminent historians travels to the Ross of Mull this month to deliver a talk on the poetry of the clearances, just as a local project is bringing a ruined township back to life. Sir Tom Devine, emeritus professor of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh, will comment on two poems, the Lament for Factor Mòr by Eugene Ross and the Satire on Patrick Sellar by Donald Baillie, read by Eleanor MacDougall, at Bunessan Hall on Tuesday October 17 at 7.30pm.
Jan Sutch Pickard of the Ross of Mull Historical Centre said: ‘We are really pleased because it fits so well with our current project on the ruined township of Ardchiavaig.’ Ardchiavaig is such a cleared settlement of more than 20 roofed and unroofed buildings (including a school), and 14 enclosures, on a beautiful but apparently empty corner of Mull near Uisken.