The Clearances

[Jock Scot]

What an intelligent question,if I may say so.I am not at all sure that the myth laden,half truths when looked at through "rose tinted glasses"will ever allow the whole truth to come out,but one thing is for sure illusions will be shattered!As a resident of the Highlands I see those illusions melt away to almost despair, nearly every month, as visitors find out that their(THEN) clan chief was the one that was responsible for clearing people, often in a fairly brutal way,from the land to make way for sheep or later on to make way for the early sporting estates.Nearly every clan chief has a nasty skeleton in their cupboard and it was,has been and is, very easy to blame somebody else---the English.They are not totally blameless though. Potato blight was of course the fault of no one.

Prepare to put your tin hat on for this one!