Old Photographs Of Isle Of Jura Inner Hebrides Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Jura, Scottish Gaelic: Diùra, an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, adjacent to and to the north east of Islay. The main settlement is the village of Craighouse on the east coast, which is its capital. Craighouse is home to the Jura Whisky Distillery, producing Isle of Jura single malt whisky. Craighouse was once served by a direct ferry from the mainland which berthed at Craighouse pier. This service was terminated some years ago, and access is now via an 8 miles single track road from Feolin on Jura's south west coast, where there is a small vehicle ferry to the neighbouring island of Islay. However, since 2007 a passengers only ferry service to Craighouse has operated during the summer from the village of Tayvallich on the mainland. The island is dominated by three steep sided conical quartzite mountains on its western side called the Paps of Jura. The demise of the Lords of the Isles at the end of the fifteenth century was shortly followed in 1506 by the Treaty of Camas an Staca, which removed MacDonald rights on Jura and gave them to the Campbells. Despite this, the sixteenth century was a period of skirmishing between the warring clans: McDonald, Campbell, MacLean and others. Then in 1607 the Campbells finally bought the island from the MacDonalds. This was the beginning of some three hundred years during which the island was ruled and largely owned by eleven successive Campbell lairds. The north of the island, however, remained in MacLean hands until 1737, when it was sold to Donald MacNeil of Colonsay. Beginning in the later 18th century, long before the notorious Highland Clearances of the following century, there were several waves of emigration from Jura. In 1767, fifty people left for Canada. In his later life, George Orwell moved to Barnhill, on Jura, living there intermittently from 1946, while critically ill with tuberculosis, until his death in January 1950. He was known to the residents of Jura by his real name, Eric Blair. It was at Barnhill that Orwell finished Nineteen Eighty Four, during 1947 and 1948, he sent the final typescript to his publishers, Secker and Warburg, on 4 December 1948, and they published the book on 8 June 1949. Despite its isolation, Barnhill has in recent years become something of a shrine for his readers.
Island Of Jura Inner Hebrides Of Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of the Island Of Jura, Scottish Gaelic: Diùra, on ancestry visit to the Inner Hebrides. Jura is one of the least densely populated Scottish islands. The island is dominated by three steep sided conical quartzite mountains on its western side, called the Paps of Jura. It is believed that Jura may have been Hinba, the island to which the 6th century missionary, Columba, retreated from the monastic community he founded on Iona, when he wished for a more contemplative life.
Nineteen Eighty-Four | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:22 1 History and title
00:01:59 1.1 Copyright status
00:05:02 2 Background
00:06:13 3 Plot
00:10:44 4 Characters
00:15:34 4.1 Main characters
00:15:42 4.2 Secondary characters
00:16:18 4.3 Unseen characters
00:19:19 5 World in novel
00:20:01 5.1 Ingsoc
00:20:09 5.2 Ministries of Oceania
00:20:36 5.2.1 Ministry of Peace
00:21:11 5.2.2 Ministry of Plenty
00:21:55 5.2.3 Ministry of Truth
00:22:25 5.2.4 Ministry of Love
00:22:49 5.3 Doublethink
00:23:15 5.4 Political geography
00:24:06 5.5 The Revolution
00:25:13 5.6 The War
00:27:00 5.7 Living standards
00:29:23 6 Themes
00:32:44 6.1 Nationalism
00:32:52 6.2 Futurology
00:34:18 6.3 Censorship
00:34:57 6.4 Surveillance
00:35:45 7 Newspeak appendix
00:36:40 8 Sources for literary motifs
00:37:37 9 Influences
00:44:28 10 Critical reception
00:49:47 11 In other media
00:50:52 12 Cultural impact
00:51:10 13 iBrave New World/i comparisons
00:56:48 14 See also
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published in June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. The story was mostly written at Barnhill, a farmhouse on the Scottish island of Jura, at times while Orwell suffered from severe tuberculosis. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the risks of government overreach, totalitarianism, and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviours within society.The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters a forbidden relationship with a co-worker, Julia.
Nineteen Eighty-Four has become a classic literary example of political and dystopian fiction. Many terms used in the novel entered common usage, including Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, prole, and memory hole. Nineteen Eighty-Four also popularised the adjective Orwellian, connoting things such as official deception, secret surveillance, brazenly misleading terminology, and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarian state. Time included it on its one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It was placed on the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, reaching No. 13 on the editors' list and No. 6 on the readers' list. In 2003, the novel was No. 8 The Big Read survey by the BBC.
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00:01:39 1 Life
00:01:48 1.1 Early years
00:08:20 1.2 Policing in Burma
00:13:04 1.3 London and Paris
00:17:19 1.4 Southwold
00:20:51 1.5 Teaching career
00:24:24 1.6 Hampstead
00:27:10 1.7 iThe Road to Wigan Pier/i
00:32:55 1.8 The Spanish Civil War
00:39:36 1.9 Rest and recuperation
00:42:04 1.10 Second World War and iAnimal Farm/i
00:51:43 1.11 Jura and iNineteen Eighty-Four/i
00:58:41 1.12 Final months and death
01:02:05 2 Literary career and legacy
01:04:21 2.1 Literary influences
01:07:28 2.2 Orwell as literary critic
01:09:36 2.3 Food writing
01:11:00 2.4 Reception and evaluations of Orwell's works
01:16:03 2.5 Influence on language and writing
01:19:05 2.6 Modern culture
01:19:43 2.7 Statue
01:20:23 3 Personal life
01:20:32 3.1 Childhood
01:23:43 3.2 Relationships and marriage
01:26:38 3.3 Social interactions
01:31:07 3.4 Lifestyle
01:33:39 4 Views
01:33:48 4.1 Religion
01:36:25 4.2 Politics
01:47:42 4.3 Sexuality
01:49:47 5 Biographies of Orwell
01:52:42 6 Ancestry
01:52:51 7 Bibliography
01:53:00 7.1 Novels
01:53:29 7.2 Nonfiction
01:53:49 8 Notes
01:53:58 9 See also
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Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic, whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, are widely acclaimed, as are his essays on politics, literature, language and culture. In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945.Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture and the term Orwellian—descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices—has entered the language together with many of his neologisms, including Big Brother, Thought Police, Room 101, memory hole, newspeak, doublethink, proles, unperson and thoughtcrime.