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Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. Georgi Dimitrov Mikhailov was arrested and tried in 1933 for his alleged complicity in the Reichstag Fire (Dimitrov mentioned in ‘Ùrnaigh’ / ‘Prayer’, ‘An Cuilithionn’ / ‘The Cuillin’, ‘Dol an Iar’ / ‘Going Westwards’). |
Attended Moray House Teachers’ Training College during the session 1933-34. |
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Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), was arrested by the Gestapo in March 1933 (Thaelmann mentioned in ‘An Cuilithionn’ / ‘The Cuillin’). |
While still at Moray House, Sorley MacLean met Hugh MacDiarmid for the first time in 1934 (MacDiarmid mentioned in ‘An Cuilithionn’). |
Scottish National Party formed in 1934. |
Returned to Portree Secondary School in the autumn of 1934 to teach English. |
Between 1934 and 1935 Mao Tse-tung and thousands of other communists embark of the Long March (Mao Tse-tung mentioned in ‘An Cuilithionn’) |
The poem ‘An Soitheach’ (The Ship) is composed by the poet in 1934, and published under the pseudonym ‘Ruari Mac-Ailein’. |
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Sorley MacLean visited Hugh MacDiarmid on Whalsay at the end of July and the beginning of August 1935. |
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The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. Federico García Lorca was killed by Nationalists partisans at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (Garcia Lorca mentioned in ‘Cornford’). |
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John Cornford was killed while fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War at El Calvario on 29 December 1936 (Cornford mentioned in ‘Ùrnaigh’ / ‘Prayer’, ‘Cornford’). |
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Julian Bell killed in Spanish Civil War in 1937 (Bell mentioned in ‘Cornford’) |
The poet taught in Tobermory High School in Mull from January to December 1938. |
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Sorley MacLean wrote a number of poems during his time on Mull: among them, the well-known ‘Ban-Ghàidheal’ (A Highland Woman). |
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The first published version of ‘Ban-Ghàidheal’ appeared in The Voice of Scotland in 1938. |
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