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Gàidhealtachd, Eachdraidh, cànan. Highlands, Gaelic, History. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/aonghasmaccoinnich/

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Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh | Sirens, Mermaids and Divers Sirens, Mermaids and Divers: Exploring murdhúchann in Medieval Literature and Gaelic Dialects

Lecture this coming Tuesday night. Part of Glasgow University's CSCS series - a contribution from Prof Robaidh Ó Maolalaigh. "Sirens, mermaids and divers"! Want to know more? Come in person or tune-in online!
Tickets available here!
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03.10.2025 10:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Isle of Rum's Kinloch Castle on sale for offers over £750,000 A previous sale of the historic castle, involving a millionaire businessman, collapsed two years ago.

Eadar 1826 agus 1830 chaidh an coimhearsnachd air an eilean seo fhuadach air fad. Leughadh naidheachdan (Beurla) am BBC an diugh. 'Will they satisfy community demands'?
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27.08.2025 22:47 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present

Coming from @edinburghup.bsky.social

Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks
Ed. by @drleith.bsky.social & Kevin J. James

Exploring Jacobitism & its cultural legacy, analysing works in English, Irish & Scottish Gaelic, & Scots
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...

08.07.2025 16:58 — 👍 12    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Crofters and cottars and lairds, oh my!

Co-organising this conference in July. Sign up to the mailing list for updates here ➡️ eepurl.com/i-Zqf2

06.06.2025 16:23 — 👍 33    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 1

Why did the Synod try and outlaw this? because it was 'unseemely to be used in any true Christian kirk, where there is preacheing and profession of the comfortable resurrection of the dead' (MacTavish, ed., Synod of Argyll Minutes i, 61)

05.06.2025 12:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Attempts made by the Synod of Argyll, 1641, to outlaw the corronach, 'a common custome in some of the remottest pairts within this province of ignorant poor women to howle their dead unto the graves'

05.06.2025 12:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A source, c.1607, talks of Lowland Scottish soldiers at Stornoway being besieged by the men of Lewis. During a night attack on the Lowland fort at Stornoway, many Lewismen were killed by the defenders. At daybreak, the Lewismen 'stall[e] away with ane heavie corinach' (Plantation & Civility, p 381).

05.06.2025 12:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What an amazing source - great find, thanks for sharing. See Dwelly's dictionary, 'Corranach'. Also, Còmh-ràinich, crying together to mourn the dead, according to Gaelic dictionary, 1828, under 'Corranach.' archive.org/details/dict.... Also Scots Dictionary dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/co...

04.06.2025 21:02 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Rosg Ruaraidh MhicThòmais Thigibh cuide ri Petra J. Poncarová is i a' bruidhinn mun leabhar ùr aice "An Staran", cruinneachadh de rosg ealanta le Ruaraidh MacThòmais.

Leabhar ùr ga chur air bhog. Diardaoin 29 Cèitean, 6.30f, Bùth Chomhairle nan Leabhraichean, Glaschu

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10.05.2025 00:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Abair oidhche a-nochd ann an Inbhir Àir. Partaig Thistle buannachadh 2-0 an aghaidh Ayr United, dol troimhe gun ath chuairt. Is abair fuaim on luchd-taic! Partick Thistle, BOING BOING! #PTFC

09.05.2025 23:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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TONIGHT Interactive workshop: Iona’s place-names, songs and more
Location: Iona Village Hall Time: 7pm

03.04.2025 10:27 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Dreuchd bhàn: Oifigear Litreachais & Foillseachaidh - Comhairle nan Leabhraichean Bidh an t-Oifigear Litreachais agus Foillseachaidh a’ dèiligeadh ri rianachd nan tabhartasan barantais agus tabhartasan foillseachaidh.

Literature and Publisher Officer position with the Gaelic Books Council - apply by 24 March www.gaelicbooks.org/dreuchd-bhan...

04.03.2025 10:20 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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An Staran | Acair Books Tha Ruaraidh MacThòmais (1921–2012) aithnichte mar bhàrd, ollamh, agus iomairtiche as leth na Gàidhlig – ach a bharrachd air sin, b’ e sgrìobhadair rosg eal ...

Oidhche Haoine, chuir sinn air bhog 'An Staran: Rosg Gàidhlig le Ruaraidh MacThòmais' ann an Àros an Rubha. ⚓ 💚 An leabhar: acairbooks.com/books/an-sta.... Clàradh bhon tachartas: fb.watch/y5gWVg_V0m/. Tha mi glè thaingeil do dhaoine & buidhnean a tha air a bhith cuideachail don leabhar:

03.03.2025 11:18 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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No second state visit for Trump This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

01.03.2025 04:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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No second state visit for Trump This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

01.03.2025 04:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Western Isles life in the 1970s brought back on screen An experiment in capturing people's experiences living in the Western Isles in the 1970s is now online.

Look forward to seeing some of the tapes tonight in Glasgow & taking about the project (almost 50 years on) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

26.02.2025 09:57 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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In honour of #worldgaelicweek here is Dwelly’s Illustrated Gaelic to English Dictionary! The 1977 edition was illustrated by Alasdair Gray, with the eighteen trees representative of each of the letters in the Gaelic alphabet.

24.02.2025 11:48 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1
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Diardaoin 13 Gearran. An Dr Michel Byrne, òraid: 'Co-chruinneach', Duanaire Peairteach, 1831.' Leabharlann Mitchell no air-loidhne, 6.30f. Cuiribh fios thugam airson ceangal-lìn

11.02.2025 10:36 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Oidhche Dhiardaoin: mi a' dèanamh fiughair ris!

11.02.2025 10:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tha an ath choinneamh gu bhith againn oidhche Dhiardaoin sa tighinn (13 An Gearran), 6.30f, Leabharlann Mitchell, leis an Dr Michel Byrne, Oilthigh Ghlaschu. Bidh an Dr Byrne a' bruidhinn air a' cheann: "'Co-chruinneach' 1831: Duanaire Peairteach". Bidh fàilte bhlàth oirbh uile!

07.02.2025 10:36 — 👍 11    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1
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Gaelic manuscripts lost from Edinburgh for 50 years are found The items that vanished from the National Library of Scotland in the 1960s included poems and songs.

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07.02.2025 09:40 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Cù gam chuideachadh leis na soithichean

02.02.2025 17:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Jan 2025 update to Who Owns Scotland is now published. It adds 100 new landholdings bringing total to 3700 landholdings covering 74.4% of rural Scotland. The project is financed solely by subscription income. Please subscribe at whoownsscotland.org.uk

31.01.2025 19:03 — 👍 67    🔁 34    💬 0    📌 1
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Càirdeas ’s Comain ’s Eòlas Thigibh cuide ri Deborah Moffatt is i ann an còmhradh le Meg Bateman mun leabhar bhàrdachd ùr aice, "Càirdeas ’s Comain ’s Eòlas".

Bidh Deborah Moffat bruidhinn ris a' bhàrd cliùiteach, an Oll Meg Bateman, aig Bùth Comhairle nan Leabhraichean, Glaschu, Diardaoin 13-02. Leabhar ùr ga chur air bhog!
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29.01.2025 12:37 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Clàr-ama | Events 2024 – 2025 A’ coinneachadh gus meòrachadh mu dhualchas, litreachas, òrain is eachdraidh nan Gàidheal is na Gàidhealtachd – tro mheadhan na Gàidhlig. Gach coinneamh ann an Seòmar Bhlythswood, Leabh…

Clàr-ama 2024/25 air làrach-lìn a' Chomainn: comannghlaschu.wordpress.com/clar-ama/ Trì òraidean fhathast ri thighinn, bidh fàilte chridheil oirbh uile!

27.01.2025 15:58 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Gaelic and Scots in the 20th and 21st Centuries Connections, Inspirations, and the Role of New Users

Gaelic & Scots in the 20th & 21st Centuries
19 Feb, Scottish Parliament
Free (booking essential)

Dr @poncarova.bsky.social discusses literary & historical connections, inspirations, & the role of new users, in the preservation & revitalisation of Gaelic & Scots
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaelic-and...

23.01.2025 12:50 — 👍 60    🔁 26    💬 0    📌 0

Òraid mhìorbhaileach o Dhòmhnall feasgar an-dè! Dèanamh fiughair mhòr a-nis o bhith cluinntinn o Mhichel an ath mhìos!

17.01.2025 11:38 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An-dè, rinn Dòmhnall Moireasdan òraid tharraingeach dhan Chomann air Fred MacAmhlaigh mar chraoladair agus mar bhàrd. Bidh an ath choinneamh againn air 13 An Gearran 2025, 6.30f (Leabharlann Mhitchell), le taisbeanadh bho Mhichel Byrne air '"Co-chruinneach" 1831: duanaire Peairteach'.

17.01.2025 10:11 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Òraid oidhche Dhiardaoin sa tighinn, Comann Gàidhlig Ghlaschu, Mgr Dòmhnall Moireasdan, BBC Naidheachdan bruidhinn mu Fred MacAmhlaigh. Leabharlann Mitchell, 6.30f. Thigibh!

11.01.2025 13:46 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
NETWORKS AND NETWORKING IN SCOTTISH STUDIES
ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF ELIZABETH EWAN

EDITED BY
LISA BAER-TSARFATI
SIERRA DYE
MARIAH HUDEC

Guelph Series in Scottish Studies Volume 5

The collection explores the central theme of networks – ranging from networks of kinship, to urban administration, to communication and correspondence, to legal networks of royal justice and crime – within medieval and early modern Scotland.
Published in an open-access format.

NETWORKS AND NETWORKING IN SCOTTISH STUDIES ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF ELIZABETH EWAN EDITED BY LISA BAER-TSARFATI SIERRA DYE MARIAH HUDEC Guelph Series in Scottish Studies Volume 5 The collection explores the central theme of networks – ranging from networks of kinship, to urban administration, to communication and correspondence, to legal networks of royal justice and crime – within medieval and early modern Scotland. Published in an open-access format.

Networks & Networking in Scottish Studies: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Ewan

Exploring networks – from kinship, to urban administration, to communication, to legal networks of royal justice & crime – within medieval & early modern Scotland

Open Access
books.lib.uoguelph.ca/networksandn...

09.01.2025 21:39 — 👍 21    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

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