Roxanne Sorooshian

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Makars of maps – and what we can learn when maps of Scotland are remade

LAST week we talked about JM Synge’s writing about the Aran Islands, from the first decade of the 20th century. By the time we reach that other 20th-century landmark on the cultural map of Aran, Robert Flaherty’s movie Man of Aran (1934), matters have moved on dramatically. One might say, “A terrible beauty is born”, but Flaherty is hardly listening to those “matters” and that “beauty” and what he hears is distorted sound, both musically and elementally. We are now well on into the establishment of the Free State and on the brink of what might be called “De Valeran” Ireland.