A selection of the creative output on the subject could include: Neil Gunn, Butcher’s Broom (1934) and The Silver Darlings (1945); Fionn MacColla, And the Cock Crew (1945); Iain Crichton Smith, Consider the Lilies (1968) and Collected Poems (1992); Kathleen Fidler, The Desperate Journey (1964) – a widely read story for primary schoolchildren; John McGrath, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1974), a hugely popular stage play which has been reprised several times over the years; and the television film Yet Still the Blood is Strong (1984).
