Michael Steven Newton

Cultural history of the Gaelic people of Scotland with selections of Gaelic poetry (with Engish translation) in an appendix. The book gives a very full and vivid account of traditional Gaelic culture in Scotland, chiefly from the 16th century to the present. The writer is clearly strongly sympathetic to Gaelic speakers and frankly hostile to the heavy-handed attempts to impose English language and England or Lowlands culture on the Gaelic culture.
Personally I am doubtful the traditional Gaelic culture could have survived into contemporary times even if it has not been deliberately suppressed, though I grant the methods of suppression were unjust.… (altro)