A Country Emptied
Ian Jack: The Highland Clearances, 7 March 2019
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed 1600-1900
by T.M. Devine.
Allen Lane, 464 pp., £25, October 2018,978 0 241 30410 5 Show More
by T.M. Devine.
Allen Lane, 464 pp., £25, October 2018,
“... element of stoic indifference.’People leave places for different reasons. In Ramsay’s poem, a young man is leaving both his West Highland home and his girl behind, perhaps because he intends to join the British army or navy. In Nicol’s painting, the couple are migrants reluctantly quitting the old world for the new, perhaps because their landlord has ... ”