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Sar Sgeoil: GREENVOE Currently on BBC iPlayer. In Gaelic with English subtitles George Mackay Brown’s 1972 novel GREENVOE imagines an Orkney island community threatened by a mysterious defence project. Cathy MacDonald investigates the story & its themes. #Booksky 💙📚 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

bbc.co.ukBBC ALBA - Sar Sgeoil, GreenvoeCathy MacDonald on George Mackay Brown’s prophetic novel, Greenvoe.

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18 Sept

GREENVOE was eerily prophetic: A few years after the novel’s publication plans were laid to mine uranium around Stromness – plans the community successfully resisted. beyondnuclearinternational.org/2021/04/18/o...

beyondnuclearinternational.orgOrkney’s uranium reprieveMusic celebrates islands spared “the breath of radon”

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“George Mackay Brown is as connected to the world as any of us. He has retreated to a point where he can see the world in an internal reflection, a very clear & penetrating simplification that he could never have achieved in the midst of the hurly-burly” —Ted Hughes 💙📚 birlinn.co.uk/product/gree...

birlinn.co.ukGreenvoe | Birlinn Ltd - Independent Scottish Publisher - buy books onlineGreenvoe, the tight-knit community on the Orcadian island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations, but Operation Black Star requires the island for unspecified purposes and threatens the isla...

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