Abstract
This essay seeks to expand critical engagement with the novel Deireadh an Fhoghair (1979) by Tormod Caimbeul by focusing on its environmental preoccupations. It discusses the way Caimbeul draws on traditional features of Gaelic literature about places and transforms them and examines the relation between people and places, depictions of the sea and the moor, and the interaction of the characters with non-human life, especially with farm animals.
Finally, it turns to the questions of recycling and renewal and to the novel's own viability in terms of readership.