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Marcas Mac an Tuairneir. Gaelic Editor Northwords Now / Poet, Cultural Commentator and Singer-Songwriter / Polaris, Cruinneachadh, Speactram OUT NOW / #Gàidhlig 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Gay #Genderqueer 🏳️‍🌈 / My views, here (he/him/e/esan) marcasmac.scot

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Màrtainn Mac an t-Saoir - Aogasg na h-Ighinn Uibhistich | Marcas Mac an Tuairneir Get more from Marcas Mac an Tuairneir on Patreon

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Màrtainn Mac an t-Saoir
Aogasg na h-Ighinn Uibhistich

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#Gàidhlig #Gaelic #FilmPoem #FilmPoetry #PoetryFilm #Patreon #ScotLit #ScottishPoetry #ScottishFilm

07.12.2025 03:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Marcas Mac an Tuairneir - Briathrachas | Marcas Mac an Tuairneir Get more from Marcas Mac an Tuairneir on Patreon

Film-dhàn Ùr

Marcas Mac an Tuairneir
Briathrachas

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#Gàidhlig #Gaelic #FilmPoem #FilmPoetry #PoetryFilm #Patreon #ScotLit #ScottishPoetry #ScottishFilm

07.12.2025 03:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A new compendium introducing these sensitive and often radical voices to wider readerships through translation into English, Scots, and other European languages

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#Scotland #ScottishPoetry #ScotLit #Poetry #GaelicPoetry #Anthology #BlackFriday #ChristmasPresents

05.12.2025 11:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sradagan san Iarmailt / Sparks in the Firmament⁠
Ginealach Ùr Bhàrd
A New Generation of Gaelic Poets⁠
Edited by Marcas Mac an Tuairneir⁠

This wide-ranging anthology showcases the talented cohort of Gaelic poets who have come to prominence since the turn of the millennium⁠. ⁠

#Gàidhlig #Gaelic

05.12.2025 11:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A new compendium introducing these sensitive and often radical voices to wider readerships through translation into English, Scots, and other European languages.

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#GaelicPoetry #ScottishPoetry #Scotland #ScottishBooks⁠

03.12.2025 15:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sradagan san Iarmailt / Sparks in the Firmament⁠
A New Generation of Gaelic Poets⁠
Edited by Marcas Mac an Tuairneir⁠

This wide-ranging anthology showcases the talented cohort of Gaelic poets who have come to prominence since the turn of the millennium⁠. ⁠

#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #ScotLit #Poetry

03.12.2025 15:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Ecosse : parution d'une impressionnante anthologie de la poésie gaélique contemporaine Le gaélique, qu'il soit irlandais ou écossais, est langue de Haute-Culture depuis l'antiquité. Mais les langues gaéliques sont également des langues

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03.12.2025 13:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This wide-ranging anthology showcases the talented cohort of Gaelic poets who have come to prominence since the turn of the millennium⁠

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#Gaelic #ScotLit #Poetry #GaelicPoetry #ScottishPoetry #Scotland #ScottishBooks

02.12.2025 09:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sradagan san Iarmailt / Sparks in the Firmament⁠
A New Generation of Gaelic Poets⁠
Edited by Marcas Mac an Tuairneir⁠

nuair a tha tàirneanaich ann, gus nach bi⁠
iad ga mhothachadh. Mar a bhios tu gan sadail beò⁠
ann an uisge goileach airson sìoda mìn.⁠
~ Pàdraig MacAoidh, 'Sìoda'

#Gàidhlig

02.12.2025 09:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Is dòcha nach soirbhich às aonais poileasaidh, maoineachaidh is an aon seòrsa àite a dìon, ach cha shoirbhich na rudan sin às aonais daoine a' dèanamh feum dhiubh.

Cleachd i no caill i - thathas air call cus mu thràth. Agus cus ùine ri gearan.

01.12.2025 16:07 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The ultimately it's down to them, and nobody else.

Particularly if they know the person in their community they're using English with has Gaelic too.

That's actually a lovely situation many people in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness would relish.

Ars e sa Bheurla.

01.12.2025 15:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

...Sector, The Gaelic Language Act, Bòrd na Gàidhlig, and now The Scottish Languages Act, but...

When is the buck going to finally come to rest with speakers?

Nobody can actually prevent anyone using Gaelic any more than they can enforce the use of it.

If folk aren't using it...

01.12.2025 15:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

An unpopular opinion I expect, but perhaps there's something to be learned from the sheer determination of urban speakers, creating spaces and opportunities to the use the language.

We can easily blame The English, The History, The Government, The Education System, The Church, The Commercial...

01.12.2025 15:53 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 2

This wide-ranging anthology showcases the talented cohort of Gaelic poets who have come to prominence since the turn of the millennium⁠

Pick up a copy now, from Francis Boutle Publishers⁠
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#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #ScotLit #Poetry #GaelicPoetry

29.11.2025 16:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sradagan san Iarmailt / Sparks in the Firmament⁠
A New Generation of Gaelic Poets⁠
Edited by Marcas Mac an Tuairneir⁠

Cò idir ach thusa⁠
cho glic ris an òr⁠
’s do shùilean cho bàidheil⁠
le gàire cho còir.⁠
~ Marion F. NicIlleMhoire, 'Macan aig Trì (Uairean sa Mhadainn'⁠

#ScottishPoetry #Scotland

29.11.2025 16:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A new compendium introducing these sensitive and often radical voices to wider readerships through translation into English, Scots, and other European languages

francisboutle.co.uk/products/sra...

#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #ScotLit #Poetry #GaelicPoetry

28.11.2025 00:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sradagan san Iarmailt / Sparks in the Firmament⁠
A New Generation of Gaelic Poets⁠
Edited by Marcas Mac an Tuairneir⁠

This wide-ranging anthology showcases the talented cohort of Gaelic poets who have come to prominence since the turn of the millennium⁠.

#ScottishPoetry #Scotland #ScottishBooks

28.11.2025 00:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Each year I get to nominate some Gaelic and Highland artists for The List's Hot 100 and, this time, it was an honour to celebrate the work of these three exceptional creatives:

Donald Grant 🎻
Fiona J. MacKenzie 🎶
Mia Suhaimi 🖋️

#Gaelic #GaelicArts #Gàidhlig #TheList #TheListUK #GaelicCulture

27.11.2025 23:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gach bliadhna bidh cothrom agam Luchd-ealain Gàidhealach ainmeachadh airson an Hot 100 aig The List agus, an turas seo, bha e na urram beagan aire a thoirt do shaothair na triùir a tha seo:

Donald Grant 🎻
Fiona J. MacKenzie 🎶
Mia Suhaimi 🖋️

#TheList #TheListUK #Gaelic #GaelicArts #Gàidhlig

27.11.2025 23:25 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Oíche Scéalaíochta le hAerachAiteachGaelach Cuir ort do ghúna nó do chulaith - nó an péire! - agus bí linn i Músaem Litríochta Éireann le haghaidh móroíche dánta, amhrán agus scéalta.

I'm looking forward to being at MoLI, with Aerach Aireach Gaelach, for the launch of a new volume of LGBTQ poetry in both Gaelic Languages.

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#Gaelic #Irish #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQI #LGBTQIA #Poetry #MoLI #Dublin #Éire #Ireland #ScotLit #IrishLit #GaelicLiterature

27.11.2025 15:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Oíche Scéalaíochta le hAerachAiteachGaelach Cuir ort do ghúna nó do chulaith - nó an péire! - agus bí linn i Músaem Litríochta Éireann le haghaidh móroíche dánta, amhrán agus scéalta.

Táim ag tnúth le bheith i Músaem Litríochta na hÉireann, in éineacht le hAerach Aiteach Gaelach, le haghaidh seoladh leabhair nua filíochta LGDTC sa dá Ghaeilge.

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#Gaeilge #LADTA #BaileÁthaCliath #MoLI #Filíocht

27.11.2025 15:08 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Oíche Scéalaíochta le hAerachAiteachGaelach Cuir ort do ghúna nó do chulaith - nó an péire! - agus bí linn i Músaem Litríochta Éireann le haghaidh móroíche dánta, amhrán agus scéalta.

Tha fiughair agam ri bhith aig Taigh-tasgaidh Litreachas na h-Èireann, còmhla ri Aerach Aiteach Gaelach, airson duanaire ùr de bhàrdachd LGDTC san dà Ghàidhlig a chur air bhog.

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Bigí linn!

#Gàidhlig #LGDTC

27.11.2025 15:08 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Book launch - Sparks in the Firmament: A New Generation of Gaelic poets Find tickets & information for Book launch - Sparks in the Firmament: A New Generation of Gaelic poets. happening at Lecture Theatre C, 40 George Square, Edinburgh, SC on Tue, 16 Dec, 2025 at 06:30 pm...

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27.11.2025 01:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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BBC Radio nan Gàidheal - Aithris Na Maidne, 24/11/2025 Naidheachdan ionadail, nàiseanta is eadar-nàiseanta gach madainn.

Diluain, bha mi a' bruidhinn ri Stephen MacLeòid air Sradagan san Iarmailt, an duanaire ùr againn de nua-bhàrdachd Ghàidhlig, aig deireadh Aithris na Maidne, BBC Radio nan Gàidheal.

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#Gàidhlig #Gaelic #GaelicPoetry #ScottishPoetry #ScotLit #Poetry #ContemporaryPoetry

25.11.2025 14:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Guthanna Gàidhlig á n-ardú ag uain chinniúnach Is é an file Marcas Mac an Tuairneir atá ina eagarthóir ar an duanaire filíochta nua ‘Sradagan san Iarmailt/Sparks in the Firmament’

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24.11.2025 12:58 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Le Bella Caledonia Editor SRADAGAN SAN IARMAILT / SPARKS IN THE FIRMAMENT Ginealach Ùr Bhàrd Gàidhealach / A New Generation Of Gaelic Poets Francis Boutle Publishers announces the publication of Sradagan san Iarmailt / Sparks in the Firmament, a major new anthology bringing together the foremost […]

20.11.2025 19:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Open Letter to the PM and Chancellor: Tax Wealth at the Autumn Budget - Fund Emergency Action to Tackle the Cost of Living Crisis I've added my name to Richard Burgon MP's open letter to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor - calling on the Government to Tax Wealth at the Autumn Budget and to fund emergency Action on the cost o...

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22.11.2025 03:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm really pleased to be heading over to South Uist for this poetry event and creative workshop for Às an Tobar.

I'll then be in Barra with Gordon and it will be lovely to be where Gaelic is at the heart of communities.

#Poetry #ScottishPoetry #ScotLit #ScottishLiterature #Scots #CelticLanguages

21.11.2025 18:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tha mi uabhasach toilichte a' teannadh a-nall air Uibhist a Deas airson tachartas bàrdachd is bùth-obrach cruthachail a dhèanamh airson Às an Tobar.

Bidh mi an uairsin ann am Barraigh còmhla ri Gòrdan agus fiughair againn ri cainnt na màthar a chluinntinn.

#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Uist #SouthUist #Barra

21.11.2025 18:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This wide-ranging anthology showcases the talented cohort of Gaelic poets who have come to prominence since the turn of the millennium⁠

Pick up a copy now, from Francis Boutle Publishers⁠

francisboutle.co.uk/products/sra...

#ScottishPoetry #Scotland #ScottishBooks⁠ #ScotLit #Poetry

20.11.2025 23:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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