#lewis grassic gibbon

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“For she’d met with books, she went into them to a magic land far from Echt, out and away…”

‘Sunset Song’ by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell)

[mariocki]

Play for Today: Clay, Smeddum and Greenden (BBC, 1976)

"What ails you?"

"Ails her? You would greet yourself if you saw your life ruined."

"Well, I'm right sorry you're taking it like that. But, losh, it's a small thing to greet over."

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Sunset Song

By Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

Design by Gill Heeley.

[branmer]

looking for power of three posts and finding one complaining about how there's too much telling and not enough showing and that this is bad writing and while i want to be reasonable about other people's opinions op you're a fucking idiot and you don't know what you're talking about

[nejjcollectsbooks]

s u m m e r r e a d s

Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

While reading outdoors I'm swamped by insects but while reading inside I'm terrorised by an even bigger and hairier creature.

[sanjogsonsand]

" You can do without the day if you've a lamp quiet- lighted and kind in your heart. "

~ Lewis Grassic Gibbon - sunset song.

10Ja23

[phoenixflames12]

I was tagged by the lovely @gohoubi- thank you, friend!

Last song: Schubert: String Quartet in C Major: D.956 II. Adagio

Favourite colour: Dark, sludgy green

Currently watching: doing a rewatch of Endeavour- going to sart s5 this weekend!

Sweet/savoury/spicy food: Savoury

Relationship status: the librarian maiden aunt who hopes to move to a small house in Oxford that has enough space for all of my books and has a spare room one day

Current obsession: 1960s/70s detectives who just can't seem to tell each other how much they mean to each other

Last thing I googled: Cable Street at the Southwalk Playhouse

Currently reading: Doing my annual reread of Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Brain is mush at the moment (it's been an exhausting week) so if you see this then yes! You! You are now tagged in this!

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PETER MULLAN IS RED JACOB MACKENZIE

Peter Mullan is a Scottish actor and filmmaker, he was born in Peterhead, a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 UK. He was interested in directing films at the age of 19 and he made several shorts. He decided to dedicate himself to acting and made his debut in the theatre in 1988 before moving to cinema and television.

His feature film work over the last several decades stretches across every genre, including roles in Riff-Raff (1991), Braveheart (1995), Trainspotting (1996), Miss Julie (1999), Young Adam (2003), Children of Men (2006), The Red Riding Trilogy (2009), War Horse (2011) The Vanishing, the Harry Potter film series (2010–11) and The Vanishing (2018).

Although his part in Braveheart was a small recurring role as one of the Scottish army foot soldiers, Mullan was to go on to enjoy a breakthrough shortly after Gibson’s classic film hit cinemas.

He followed Braveheart with his part as the drug dealer Mother Superior in Trainspotting, then found himself being fêted by Martin Scorsese when he won the best actor award at Cannes for Ken Loach’s film, ‘My Name Is Joe’ (1998), filmed in Argyll and Glasgow.

Trainspotting 1996 ‧ Crime/Thriller

Mullan has a vast body of work but is probably best known for his portrayal of Joe in the 1988 Ken Loach film ‘My Name is Joe’. For this work, he won the highly prized Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Mullan in My Name is Joe, directed by Ken Loach. Photograph: Allstar Picture Library

A few years later, in 2011, the Sundance Film Festival awarded Mullan a World Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performances for his role as Joseph in Paddy Considine’s Thriller/Drama ‧ ‘Tyrannosaur’ (2011) with Olivia Colman.

Since then, Mullan has gone on to work with directors like Steven Spielberg (War Horse 2011 ‧ War/Adventure ) alongside Jeremy Irvine and with Alfonso Cuarón popped up as a totalitarian crank in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, goading the dispossessed into parading their “refugee face”. On Mullan suggestion, Cuarón swapped his character’s weapon of choice for something less obvious, but more threatening, and has become one of the most respected modern film and TV actors.

War Horse 2011 ‧ War/Adventure ‧ Film of the Year 2012

He has also made his name as a director, with acclaimed movies such as Neds, Orphans and The Magdalene Sisters.

His other film credits include ‘Hercules’ 2014 ‧ Action/Fantasy alongside Dwayne Johnson as General Sitalces, Commander of the Thracian army. Lord Cotys's second-in-command right-hand man portrayed by the late John Hurt.

Sunset Song, 2015 ‧ Romance/Drama Terence Davies’s adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbons’s novel, stars Agyness Deyn as Chris, a Scottish farm worker who sees family trauma merge into global catastrophe as the First World War devastates her village.

Starring Peter Mullan, as Chris’s abusive dad. was filmed at various locations across Scotland in Aberdeenshire, including Fettercairn and the Glenmuick, Glen Tanar, Invercauld and Ballogie estates. Sunset Song is certainly a masterpiece of Scottish/ British literature and was voted Scotland's favourite book.

Scots Quair is actually three books, Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite, that tell the story of Chris Guthrie, a young woman in the North East of Scotland, moving from the hard, rural life of her adolescence to adulthood and marriage. A Scots Quair is one of the most important works of Scottish literature.

Tommy's Honour 2016 ‧ Sport/Romance is based on the powerfully moving true story (and novel of the same name by Kevin Cook) of the challenging relationship between “Old” Tom and “Young” Tommy Morris, the dynamic father-son team who ushered in the modern game of golf.

Tommy's Honour 2016

Peter Mullan stared as Tom with Jack Lowden playing his son. The film was filmed in the Edinburgh city region including Peebles and Musselburgh golf course.

He also played Yaxley in ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’, parts 1 and 2. In TV, he’s played characters in ‘Westworld’, ‘Top Of The Lake’ and Netflix’s ‘Ozark’ as Jacob Snell. [Netflix]

In 2020 He was great in #Ozark portraying local crime lord Jacob Snell, The crime boss of Osage Beach until he died in season two of the Netflix hit.

Ozark 2017 ‧ Drama ‧ 4 seasons

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV Series 2022– ) - Peter Mullan played Durin III king of the dwarves and builder of the great halls of Moria.

Moria is introduced in Tolkien's novel The Hobbit and is a major scene of action in The Lord of the Rings. In the fictional world of J. R. R. Tolkien, Moria, also named Khazad-dûm, is an ancient subterranean complex in Middle-earth.

On the big and small screen, from sci-fi to action and comedy, there are plenty of Scots actors who have made a huge impact on the world of acting. Just take a look at the right place where you will find them in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#PeterMullan #Scotland #actor #filmmaker #Peterhead #RedJacobMackenzie #BOMB #Braveheart #Trainspotting #MartinScorsese #bestactor #CannesFilmFestival #KenLoach #MyNameIsJoe #Tyrannosaur #OliviaColman SundanceFilmFestival #ChildrenofMen #WorldDramaticSpecialJuryPriz #Hercules #DwayneJohnson #GeneralSitalces #book #SunsetSong #Scottishliterature #TerenceDavies #LewisGrassicGibbons #Tommy'sHonour #novel #Kevin Cook #TommyMorris #Musselburghgolf #Netflix #Ozark #JacobSnell #DurinIIIking #Moria #RingsofPower #Tolkien'snovel

Posted 5th April 2024

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Neil M Gunn, author of The Silver Darlings and many other books and short stories, died passed away on January 15th 1973

Gunn was a novelist, critic and dramatist working at the height of the Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. Unlike his contemporaries Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Hugh MacDiarmid, Gunn choose to write largely in English.

Gunn worked in the Civil Service in London and Edinburgh before returning to the live and work in the Highlands, his first novel, The Grey Coast, was published in 1926, but it wasn’t until 1937 and the success of Highland River, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, that he was able to give up his job with Customs and Excise to write full-time.

Highland River marked the end of a trilogy of novels exploring the history of the Highlands, following Sun Circle and Butcher’s Broom. The following year Gunn sold his house in Inverness and bought a twenty-seven foot motor boat, The Thistle, and took his wife and brother on a three-month sailing cruise around the islands of Scotland.

His final book was the autobiography The Atom of Delight, published in 1956. He wrote a number of essays, which have been collected into anthologies.

Gunn died on this day in 1973, and the memorial sculpture, Kenn and the Salmon, as seen in the photo, was unveiled at Dunbeath Harbour in 1991, a second memorial, above Strathpeffer, erected by the Neil M. Gunn Memorial Trust. He is also remembered with a stone in Makars’ Court, Edinburgh. 

Find more about the man here https://neilgunntrust.org/

[lesbworth]

tagged by @timesthatneverwere (thank you! :))

last song: ring ding dong by shinee LMFAOOO. wife influence <3

last show: i genuinely don't remember the last show i finished because i never finish anything but the last episode of something i watched was probably inspector morse (the 80s/90s series)

currently watching: errrr i watch quite a few things but the show i'm actually in the middle of watching to try and finish is death note lmao

currently reading: same answer as previous lol but the ones i'm in the middle of reading to finish are sunset song by lewis grassic gibbon and gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir (I FINALLY GOT IT! great so far!)

current obsession: nothing in particular atm but i have been Thinking About My Fuckign, OCs. also i was going insane about lady crystal is a man with berry yesterday! <3

unrelated obsession: um. idk man learning korean maybe? i don't have much time to as be obsessed with it as i would like though 😭 maybe french mythology actually since i researched that recently for a project lmao. la tarasque is my girlbestie

tagging: @ofmanandmice @misskriemhilds @fghtinus and @thecatofdreams (i know times already tagged you but get tagged again idiot <3)

ofc no pressure to anyone i tagged though lmao!

[bookymcbookface]

Cloud Howe, by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, read by Janet Alexander

[sacharowan]

just gone to see sunset song by lewis grassic gibbon and holy shit it's doing things to my brain. I don't understand Scots very well but this is so good!! I love it

[grotesquelysweet]

feeling like a reread of sunset song lewis grassic gibbon i adore your work

[gorseflowers]

last, current, next read -- tagged by my man my myth my legend joel 💖@saintflint

last read:

ummm it's been a little while actually i think it was home fire by kamila shamsie and heaney's translation of antigone for me and my friends book club (home fire is an antigone retelling so the heaney translation was supplemental reading i would highly recommend both!!)

current read:

i started two books last month and havent made much progress with either. i think i might hold off on a scots quair by lewis grassic gibbon bc i feel like its gonna be a grim slog (it's about aberdeenshire -_-). the other book which i'm definitely gonna finish once i have some free time soon is hamlet in klingon

next read:

im wanting to start let the right one in by ajvide lindqvist once the weather turns a bit cause i feel like it's Not a summer read, also once the book club gets going we're gonna do moby dick so that'll be my second read!!

tagging @section-69 and anyone else who wants to do it (i'm too tired to remember whos already been tagged in this one but im very interested in what ppl are reading!)

[clareyrobwrites17]

- Lewis Grassic Gibbons, about Robert Burns

Imagine being so famous for being a lil slutty you can’t even be trusted around the big M

[phoenixflames12]

Nine people you'd like to get to know better

Unofficially tagged by Mag @silvermagpies thank you, darling!

3 ships: Endeavour Morse/Monica Hicks, John Bridgens/Henry Peglar, Horatio Hornblower/Archie Kennedy

first ship: Will/Djaq from BBC Robin Hood

last song: Standing at the Sky's Edge from the Original West End Cast recording of Standing at the Sky's Edge

currently reading: on the annual re-read of Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

last movie: Can't remember. I am Bad with films

currently craving: either my brain to shut up, our heating, hot water and gas to be restored (not knowing if there was a potential carbon monoxide leak yesterday is such fun) or a hug. A definite hug that doesn't feel forced. Haven't had one of those in ages.

Anyone who wants to, please consider yourself tagged!