Published on in “Art, History”, language — English. 8 pages.
The history of Skye is the story of mass emigration where the islanders departed their island either voluntarily, or in the vast majority of cases involuntarily, as result of the 'Highland Clearances' following the Battle of Culloden in 1746. My great-grandfather was born in 1850 on a Skye where the legacy of the evictions was still raw in the minds of the islanders. More
