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During the late 1930s and early 1940s the poems of ‘Dàin do Eimhir’ (Songs to Eimhir) were composed.
 
Sorley MacLean began work on ‘An Cuilithionn’ (The Cuillin) in 1939.
The Second World War 1939-1945. (Sorley MacLean produced a number of moving war poems following his service in the British Army in North Africa, the most famous of which is ‘Glac a’ Bhàis’).
Sorley MacLean taught English at Boroughmuir School in Edinburgh from January 1939 to September 1940.
 
From October 1939 to at least June 1940, Sorley MacLean spent time teaching evacuees in Hawick.
 
17 Poems for 6d, containing some of the poems, which would later appear in ‘Dàin do Eimhir’, was published in 1940.
 

Seventeen Poems for Sixpence, a second issue of the poems with corrections, was published some weeks later in 1940.

 
The ‘An t-Aigeach’ section from Part V of ‘An Cuilithionn’ was published in The New Alliance in 1940.
 
Sorley MacLean entered the Signal Corps in September 1940 and from May to December 1941 he waited at Catterick Camp for embarkation orders.
 

The poet was sent to Egypt in December 1941, and remained on active service from then until March 1943 with the Royal Horse Artillery.

 
Sorley MacLean was seriously injured at the Battle of El Alamein on 2 November 1942, and was in hospital from November 1942 to July 1943.
Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt from 23 October to 3 November 1942.
Dàin do Eimhir agus Dàin Eile published in November 1943.
 
Sorley MacLean resumed teaching at Boroughmuir School in Edinburgh from 1943 to 1956.
 
The war poem ‘Glac a’ Bhàis’ (Death Valley) was published in Poetry Scotland in 1944.
 
‘Reothairt’ (Springtide) was published in Scottish Art and Letters in 1944.
 

1911 - 1931
1932 - 1938
1939 - 1944
1945 - 1975
1976 - 1996
 
 
 
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