131 years ago today. Christopher Murray Grieve, better known as Hugh MacDiarmid, was born on 11 August 1892. Widely regarded as the most important Scottish poet of the 20th Century, this is his memorial near Langholm by the sculptor, Jake Harvey. More: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mac/hughmacdiarmid.html

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“Joyce considered how the ‘sister’ nations Ireland and Scotland might be linked through similar philosophical traditions, MacDiarmid saw modern Irish cultural and political developments as a source of inspiration for Scotland, and Heaney turned to the Buile Suibhne story as a way of stressing cultural commonalities between the north and south of Ireland, as well as between #Ireland and #Scotland.”

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https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/06/14/late-celticism-in-irish-and-scottish-literature-binding-ties/

Antagonist: the life behind Hugh MacDiarmid
31 Jan, University of Glasgow – free

Alexander Linklater asks, what does the actual life of Christopher Murray Grieve reveal about the persona he created, the poetry he wrote, & the Scottish idea he revolutionised?

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From On a Raised Beach
by Hugh MacDiarmid:

The inward gates of a bird are always open.
It does not know how to shut them.
That is the secret of its song,
But whether any man’s are ajar is doubtful.

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