The first of a series of posts suggesting poems that students could be asked to engage with
Hallaig is a poem by the late Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean or more correctly Somhairle MacGill-Eain.
You can find out more about his life at this website, which has been around for a long time. He has a long career and was influential on the Isle of Skye and beyond.
I had the great pleasure of meeting him briefly while walking through the village where he lived, and close to which a friend was living at the time.
The poem was set to music by the late musician Martyn Bennett (one of my favourite musicians).
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