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Categories: Scottish socialists, 20th-century Scottish poets, Queen's Medal for Poetry winners, People from Skye and Lochalsh, Shinty players
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Sorley MacLean  Somhairle MacGill-Eain  Somhairle MacGilleain  Somhairle maclean
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Sorley MacLean was a Scottish Gaelic poet, described by the Scottish Poetry Library as "one of the major Scottish poets of the modern era" because of his "mastery of his chosen medium and his engagement with the European poetic tradition and European politics". Wikipedia
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Sorley MacLean was a Scottish Gaelic poet, described by the Scottish Poetry Library as "one of the major Scottish poets of the modern era" because of his "mastery of his chosen medium and his engagement with the European poetic tradition and European politics". Wikipedia
IS A
homo
CONFLICT
World War II
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom
EDUCATED AT
University of Edinburgh
Portree High School
EMPLOYER
Tobermory High School
Portree High School
Plockton High School
Boroughmuir High School
GENRE
poetry
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
Scottish Gaelic
MILITARY BRANCH
British Army
NATIVE LANGUAGE
Scottish Gaelic
OCCUPATION
writer
poet
translator
school teacher
PLACE OF BIRTH
Raasay
PLACE OF DEATH
Inner Hebrides
POSITION HELD
principal
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
Calum Maclean
WRITING LANGUAGE
Scottish Gaelic
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Sorley MacLean
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Sorley MacLean
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Somhairle MacGill-Eain, Somhairle MacGilleain, Somhairle maclean, Sorley Maclean

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