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Calum I. Maclean


Born
in Raasay, Scotland
September 06, 1915

Died
August 17, 1960

Genre
Ethnography


Calum Iain Maclean was a Scottish folklorist, collector, ethnographer and author. He was a son of Malcolm MacLean (1880 - 1951), tailor, and his wife, Christina (1886 - 1974). One of his brothers was the Gaelic poet and scholar, Sorley MacLean (1911 - 1996).

Maclean received his early education at Raasay Primary School and then Portree High School (1929 - 1935), Skye. Maclean then went to the University of Edinburgh (1935 - 1939) where he took a first in Celtic Studies under the tutelage of two famous Gaelic scholars, Professor William J. Watson (1865 - 1948), and his son Professor James Carmichael Watson (1910 - 1942). He won the McCaig and Macpherson scholarships which enabled him to enrol at University College Dublin where he undertook fu ...more

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“I suspect that lamentably little of the fine traditions of Lochaber are being passed on to the younger generations. Men like John MacDonald of Highbridge, Archie MacInnes of Acluachrach and the late Alan Macdonnel of Inverlochy could stand anywhere on the highway between Fort William and Roy Bridge and name every valley, every stream, every copse and every peak in an absolute sea of mountains as far as the eye could reach. Their knowledge did not, however, stop at mere names. They knew the why and the wherefore of them all.”
― Calum I. Maclean, The Highlands
tags: lochaber, oral-tradition
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