Abstract
Describes Bliadhna nan Caorach, the Year of the Sheep, in Ross-shire in the summer of 1792 when about 200 Highland farmers from Strathrusdale and other communities drove as many as 10,000 cheviot and blackface sheep toward Inverness to protest their intrusion on to Highland lands; discusses the difference between protest, riot, and insurrection; and examines a poetic response by Ailean Dughallach (Allan MacDougall) and two sympathetic prose reactions, by Anne Grant, of Laggan, and a touring English clergyman John Lettice (who attended the subsequent trials, but took some of his information from the Statistical Account).
Recommended Citation
Dick, Alexander
(2020)
"Bliadhna nan Caorach/The Year of the Sheep: Reading Highland Protest in the 1790s,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 46:
Iss.
1, 23–31.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol46/iss1/6