LL-L "History" 2003.01.02 (07) [E/S]

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From: Colin Wilson <lcwilson at btinternet.com>
Subject: LL-L "Identity" 2002.12.31 (12) [E]

At 00:15 01/01/03, Harlan Ross May wrote:
>Colin,

This list isn't intended for personal exchanges, and for my part I'll
address my comments to the readership generally.

>the author that I paraphrased is a respected Scottish historian and
>writer.
>          Scotland, in the late 1600's and early 1700 was run by the Crown.
>Scotland may have had a legislature during that time, but they were
>controlled by the English.

That's a highly debateable statement; but even if it were true, it would
add nothing in support of Harlan Ross May's earlier claim that in
1695 the English parliament somehow could "ban" Gaelic in Scotland.

The following essay by Ewan J. Innes, MA(Hons Scot. Hist.) FSA Scot
http://www.scottishhistory.com/articles/highlands/gaelic/decline.htm
addresses the decline of Gaelic in Scotland in some detail. From it we
can see that (a) the anti-Gaelic statute of 1695 was actually an act
of the *Scottish* legislature, and (b) what it did was provide, in
certain specific circumstances, for schools to be set up in Highland
localities for the express purpose of promoting English over Gaelic.

As a measure, that's undoubtedly discriminatory. However, it doesn't
amount to what Harlan Ross May claimed previously, namely that through
this measure Gaelic was "banned" and "outlawed". I'm still waiting to
see evidence that it has ever been a criminal act in Scotland simply to
speak or write in Gaelic, which is what "banned" and "outlawed" would
mean.

>The crown ordered the Glencoe Massacre.  Are you
>familiar with that?  That was a period of heavy migration of Scots-Irish to
>America, hence the attitudes that caused the Revolution.
>           If anyone thinks that England was not a bloody tyrant during
that
>period, they got their history lessons from England.    Nuff said.

History is more complicated than "goodies" and "baddies". I wonder
whether Harlan Ross May has ever heard the expression "mi-rùn mòr
nan Gall"? It certainly doesn't refer to the English.

A Guid New Year tae Ane an Aw.

Colin Wilson.

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From: R. F. Hahn <admin at lowlands-l.net>
Subject: History

Thanks for the information above, Colin, an a guid New Year tae ye an aw!

> This list isn't intended for personal exchanges, and for my part I'll
> address my comments to the readership generally.

Which is just as well, since the person you quoted is no longer among us.

Friendly regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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