Calgacus 2: Summer 1975

Calgacus #2

by Ray Burnett (Editor), John Manson (Contributor), Ron Mackay (Contributor)

The Scottish review of politics, current affairs, history and the arts.

Features

Antonio Gramsci: A Letter
Ron Mackay on Protestant Extremists in Scotland
Without Snapping, a short story by Derek Bowman
John Murdoch: A Land and Labour Pioneer by J.D. Young
A Selection of John Murdoch's Editorials from 'The Highlander'
The Argyll Islands by John McEwan
Who are the Owners? by Ray Burnett
John MacInnes on Sorley Maclean's Hallaig
A Theory of Tourism by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
The Gas Man Cometh a short story by Douglas Bennett
Tributes to Jeannie Robertson and Sydney Goodsir Smith

Poetry

Poems by John Manson, Uilleam Mac Dhun-leibhe and Edwin Morgan

Reviews

Kenneth O. Morgan, Keir Hardie: Radical and Socialist, reviewed by J.D. Young
The Muckle Sangs (TNGM 119/D), reviewed by Peter Hall
The Muckle Sangs (TNGM 119/D), reviewed by Ian R. Carter
Gaelic Psalms from Lewis, reviewed by Dolina Maclennan
A Double Scotch: Edwin Morgan and Alexander Scott read their own poetry, reviewed by Janet Meldrum
The Russell Family of Doolin, County Clare (Topic 12TS251), reviewed by John Strachan
Flora Garry, Bennygoak and Other Poems, reviewed by Robert Garioch
Sydney Goodsir Smith, Gowdspink in Reekie, reviewed by Donald Campbell
Robin Fulton, Contemporary Scottish Poetry
August Strinberg, To Damascus, reviewed by Judith Stamper
Tony Cliff, The Crisis: Social Contract or Socialism, reviewed by Ron Brown
Isabel Frances Grant, Highland Folk Ways & Alexandra Stewart, The Glen that was, reviewed by John Alexander
Kenneth MacKinnon, The Lion's Tongue, reviewed by Ray Burnett
Roger Manvell & Heinrich Fraenkel, The Hundred Days to Hitler, reviewed by Paul Addison
Robin Blackburn (ed.), Explosion in a Sub-Continent, reviewed by Ysuf Ahmad
Josef Mindszenty, Memoirs, reviewed by Peter Hebbelthwaite
Steve Gooch, Will Wat? If nor, Wat Will? & The Motor Show, reviewed by Kathryn Kelly
The Bolsheviks and the October Revolution: Minutes of the Central Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, August 1917 - February 1918, reviewed by Evan Mawdsley
Joseph Heller, Something Happened, reviewed by Frederic Lindsay

60 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Ray Burnett has had an active engagement with Irish - Scottish cultural, social and political affairs since the 1960s. He edited Calgacus, the Scottish review of politics, current affairs, history and the arts from early 1975 to Spring 1976. In the 1980s, he was a member of the Editorial Board of the Scottish and international literature, arts and affairs magazine, Cencrastus.