The Highland Clearances

The Gaels... from the Old World to the New.

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[irishoforiel]

I hope one day you Scots can sing a version of A Nation Once Again too.

[amandaberesford]

Ok, let us be clear. The people who wanted Gaelic "eradicated" and Gaeldom thoroughly destroyed may be dead as far as history is concerned, but the cultural bigotry they left in their wake is still felt to this day. Be on guard.

[Abshenonas]

The Brits can say about how 'stable' and unified their state in comparision to many other states but any form of opposition (including celtic languages) were brutally crushed before much could be done about it. Look at England, the industrialization brought explotation to the provinces and with de-industralization only London has any money. But we can change that, vote scottish independence. Allba Gu brath

[frantic1971]

I find it ironic that England, as a member of NATO, could condemn ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia; including the sanctioning of savage aerial bombings against Serb targets. When 250 years previously the British had carried-out one of the most brutal ethnic cleansing campaigns ever in both Scotland and Ireland.

[francaisemusique]

thumbs up if totally enormous extinct dinosaurs sent you here !

[QuietReckoning]

@jed371 I find it interesting that you're basing your comment on 300 year old propaganda.

[AlbaSiar]

@merchyllyn The Western Isles people are the most genuine, hospitable and friendliest people one could every meet. One of the last cleared townships in Scotland was in Sollas -North Uist. What became known as the " battle of Sollas " became a truly ugly affair. As in much of the clearances it was Scots people doing the burning and evicting, in this case Edinburgh lawyers gave the order, after the penniless Macdonald of Clanranald passed ownership to an Edinburgh trust.

[barrach7]

Thank you for posting. MY family thankfully escaped the trip across to the 'New World' (where many died en-route) from the O Hebrides and smuggled a boat to take their starving, thread-bare bodies to the mainland instead. Those times should never be forgotten. Sadly man's inhumanity to man isn't dead - why others can be viewed as 'subhuman' to satisfy greed is simply not civilised...Slainte!

[celtfin1]

sad to think that still after all the hurt from england 80% of scots are loyal to them tut tut!

[merchyllyn]

The western Isles especially and the Highlands of true scots, the land of well enlightened people and the most generous I have come across during my travels. It is the English who are savages and lack any class or culrure look at England now, a divided nation where people are only driven by money young people wish their parents to die inorder to inherit their house! how low has England reached

[jostvandyke2007]

@jed371 Get over it????? Fuck you!!!

[jed371]

the Highland Clearances were completely necessary to destory a quasi-feudal, backward way of life. harsh, but it was what scotland needed, get over it