{"id":2825,"date":"2014-08-04T10:09:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T10:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2014-08-04T10:09:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T10:09:55","slug":"domhnall-ruadh-choruna-and-the-great-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2014\/08\/04\/domhnall-ruadh-choruna-and-the-great-war\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00f2mhnall Ruadh Chor\u00f9na and the Great War"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Domhnall<\/a>Today, 4th August 2014, marks 100 years since Great Britain entered the First World War – An Cogadh M\u00f2r.<\/p>\n

Here, retired headteacher Willie Macdonald reads out extracts from the emotionally intense poetry of the North Uist bard D\u00f2mhnall Ruadh Chor\u00f9na, and discusses them in Gaelic and English. The conversation moves on to focus on the impact on families, including Willie’s own, of the losses suffered in the First World War, and the land raids undertaken by returning soldiers hardened by conflict, and willing to face imprisonment in pursuit of their claims to decent crofting land.<\/p>\n

Willie was recorded by Mary Morrison and Laura Donkers for the project “An fheadhainn tha laighe s\u00e0mhach<\/a>“, run by Comunn Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath. You can find the book of D\u00f2mhnall Ruadh’s poetry, with full parallel English translations, via this link<\/a> to the Gaelic Books Council.<\/p>\n