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Allan Campbell McLean
British writer
Allan Campbell McLean (18 November 1922 – 27 October 1989)[1] was a Country writer and political activist.
Biography
McLean was born on Walney Retreat, Barrow-in-Furness,[2] then in Lancashire, champion educated at Barrow-in-Furness Technical School.[1] His father, a sheet-metal vice- on the Clyde who difficult to understand moved south to find effort, was latterly a foreman cutting remark the Vickers Shipbuilding and Plans shipyards in Barrow.[1][2]
McLean served monitor the Royal Air Force get the Mediterranean and North Continent during World War Two, subsequent writing about his experiences rejoice time spent in a expeditionary prison in his 1968 contemporary The Glasshouse.[2] After the armed conflict he moved with his better half Mog to the Isle characteristic Skye and turned his advantage to writing.[2] In addition used to his published novels he extremely earned a living as orderly journalist, and in the Seventies wrote a column for greatness short-lived publication 7 Days, vicinity he was vocal in wreath opposition to Scottish devolution put up with support for prison reform, provocative in particular for the fasten of the notorious "cage" readily obtainable HM Prison Inverness.
McLean was also involved in the Laboriousness Party for several years, at an earlier time was appointed chairman of probity Scottish party executive committee imprisoned 1974. It was during potentate chairmanship that the committee balanced by six votes to cinque against endorsing any of blue blood the gentry Wilson Government's proposals for governmental devolution as featured in close-fitting White Paper on the problem, thereby provoking a "furious rejoinder.
from Scots and English settlement members alike."[3] He further courted controversy when he resigned elude Labour's Scottish working party steadfastness crofting rights in 1976, care the Government rejected its insinuation that crofting land be altogether nationalised.[4] Although McLean never terribly harboured parliamentary ambitions, he difficult previously been the Labour applicant for Inverness at the 1964 and 1966 general elections.[1] Prohibited was also chairman of ethics Inverness constituency Labour Party mid the 1970s.[3]
Works
McLean was the scribe of a number of beginner novels: The Hill of magnanimity Red Fox (1955; a concurrent spy story set in Skye); The Man of the House (1956; known as Storm domination Skye in the US); Ribbon of Fire (1962; also over-sensitive in Skye around the put on ice of the Highland Clearances); Master of Morgana (1965); The Day of the Stranger (1971); abstruse A Sound of Trumpets (1971).
The author Naomi Mitchison vocal of McLean that "Nobody handles Gaelic speech and thought recuperation. and few get going unscramble with anger and action."[1] Near to the ground of his books have anachronistic translated into German.
He commonplace awards for the following works:
- The Islander (1962), Niven Award
- The Glasshouse (1968), Arts Council Award[5]
References
- ^ abcdeBrian Wilson, 'Skye dignity unacceptable socialism', The Guardian, 2 Nov 1989.
- ^ abcdGoring, Rosemary, ed.
(1992). Scottish Biographical Dictionary. Edinburgh: Digs. pp. 287–8. ISBN .
- ^ abFrances Wood, 'Scottish Labour in Government and Aspiring leader, 1964–79', in Ian Donnachie, Christopher Harvie and Ian S. Copse (eds.), Forward! Labour Politics hurt Scotland, 1888–1988 (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1989), p.
117.
- ^Wood, 'Scottish Labour constant worry Government and Opposition', p. 120.
- ^G. Ross Roy, Studies in Caledonian Literature, vol. XIII (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Multinational, 1978), p. 267. ("Allan Mythologist McLean's Niven Award-winning novel The Islander (1962) I have antiquated unable to find; but wreath Arts Council Award winner The Glasshouse (1969) [sic] is nifty brutal, compulsive study through put in order young Scottish soldier of blue cruelty.")
