@sheilamkidd.bsky.social
Ollamh Litreachas agus Eachdraidh nan Gàidheal | Professor of Gaelic Literature and History @uofglasgow.bsky.social https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/sheilakidd/
A pen sketch showing an old style lecture theatre with wooden banches. In the middle of the room. Lister can be seen dropping through a trapdoor in the floor
We have lots of student notebooks containing sketches on anatomy, diseases etc, however, this one is by far our favourite. It shows Joseph Lister, father of antiseptic surgery, disappearing through a trapdoor after his lecture in Glasgow in 1868. Now that's how to make an exit!
#Museum30 #Sketchbook
Aithris bhrìoghmhor air Mairead Burnley Chaimbeul agus eachdraidh a' Chomuinn Ghàidhealaich aig toiseach an 20mh linn
@brudhearg.bsky.social
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Great to see the new Scotnote Study Guide on 'The Gaelic Writings of Dòmhnall Mac na Ceàrdaich' by Aonghas MacLeòid, published by @asls.org.uk. Dòmhnall Mac na Ceàrdaich | Donald Sinclair (1885–1932) was one of the most prolific and innovative contributors to Erskine's periodicals.
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Gairm Phàipearan Co-Labhairt | Call For Conference Papers: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 14−16 July 2026
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Rugadh Aonghas MacDhonnchaidh air an 6mh latha den Dàmhair 1871 ann am Breacais, anns an Eilean Sgitheanach. | Angus Robertson was born #OTD 6 October 1871 in Breakish, Skye.
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Just reading a post by offspring about last year's adventure. I still remember how stressed I was about her Lukla flights! findraclothing.com/blogs/journa...
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Tha dreuchd ùr ri fhaighinn mar Oifigear Gàidhlig le Hebrides People sna Hearadh
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Do dhuine sam bith a th’ air am beò-ghlacadh le faclan, abairtean is gnàthasan-cainnte, nach math an naidheachd gu bheil prògraman #FacalOirbh rin cluinntinn a-rithist.
Gheibhear taghadh de 40 prògram an seo: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
From @chrismpaton.bsky.social Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly. Extremely alarming legal saga involving US genealogy company Ancestry and National Records of Scotland re core Scottish genealogy and family history records. scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ance...
26.09.2025 14:46 — 👍 25 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 3Meal do naidheachd, Petra
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Cumaibh 14mh–16mh Iuchar 2026 airson Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu.
Gairm phàipearan & fiosrachadh clàraidh uile ri thighinn.
Hold 14th–16th July 2026 for the Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference at the University of Glasgow.
Call for Papers & Registration information all to follow.
New publication based on the ERSKINE Project: the article ‘Irish Content and Contributors in Ruaraidh Erskine’s Gaelic Magazines’ has just been published in the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies 12:1 (2025).
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How time flies! Excited to say that IIssue 30 of #RoSC is now with our typesetter and out soon so... we're open for submissions to issue 31.
Please share and submit 😊 All you need is at:
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
Gaelic in the gallery | Gàidhlig anns a' Ghailearaidh
National Galleries of Scotland booklet prepared by pupils at Edinburgh's Gaelic primary school, Bun-sgoil Taobh na Pàirce
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Join us online today - Wed. 10 September, 3pm (EDT) / 8pm (UK) for 'Gaelic in Scotland, Gaelic in Canada: Challenges, Prospects, Connections’ delivered by Prof. Robert Dunbar,
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Free Tickets: www.eventbrite.ca/e/1582259584...
#Gaelic #GaelicLanguage #Scotland #Canada
Cothrom a bhith ag obair còmhla rinn aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu mar Manaidsear Leasachaidh na Gàidhlig
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👀 Project: “Alistair Cameron - Roadman to Academic”
Cothrom Obrach - Oifigear Dualchas Gàidhlig, Ionad Achadh na Creige, An t-Òban.
Gaelic Heritage Officer wanted to catalogue and explore an archive of writings by the late Alistair Cameron.
Details: www.therockfieldcentre.org.uk/current-vaca...
Currently doing some editing for Aiste 8 along with @siminnes.bsky.social, due out by the end of the year and we welcome submissions for Aiste 9 (2026) before end February.
And if you haven’t yet had a chance to dip into the great articles in Aiste 7 ... clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...
A painting showing milkmaid with pail following cows
A’ dèanamh obair deasachaidh an-dràsta còmhla ri @siminnes.bsky.social airson Aiste 8 a bhios air-loidhne ro dheireadh na bliadhna. Bidh fàilte ro artagailean son Aiste 9 ro dheireadh a’ Ghearrain 2026. Agus mura faca tu Aiste 7 fhathast ... clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...
15.08.2025 10:03 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0As the first Gaelic writer to become Scotland’s National Poet, Pàdraig MacAoidh/Peter Mackay is acutely aware of the responsibility he’s taken on. Ahead of his three Book Festival events, our new Makar tells Allan Radcliffe that he’s also keen to simply have fun with words
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The next blog from Comunn Eachdraidh Nis is on our website!
This time they tell us about their project cataloguing and digitising the archive with the aim of making the collection more accessible.
Find out more via our website: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/community-ar...
Thig a dh’obair còmhla rinn!
Tha Faclair na Gàidhlig a’ sireadh Oifigear Conaltraidh:
www.obraichean.co.uk/job/faclair-...
Le taic bho @bordnagaidhlig.bsky.social
Poster advertising an event to take place on 5 September 2025 at 50 George Square, the University of Edinburgh, on the topic of 'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic'. The event will run from 10am to 5pm.
10.00 Introduction and welcome 10.30-12.00 Ken Ó Donnchú (UCC): Spanish-Irish translation 1593-1706 Aonghas MacCoinnich (Glasgow): Gaelic perspectives on ‘state formation’ and Atlantic plantation. The case of Lewis, c.1610-c.1640 Silke Stroh (Koblenz): Re-fitting ‘The Garb of Old Gaul’: Circum-Atlantic warfare and intercultural mobility in re-writings and translations of a popular 18th-century song 12.00-13.00 Lunch 13.00-14.30 Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (Edinburgh): Viewing Inveraray from St Lucia: The case of Dugald MacNicol’s manuscripts Kathleen Reddy (Glasgow): The Bàrd na Ceapaich manuscript at the University of Glasgow Brendan Kane (UConn & Edinburgh): Political thought and politicization from New York to Cork: Reading the early modern through a 19th-century commonplace book 14.30-15.00 Coffee 15.00-16.00 Rob Dunbar (Edinburgh): Johnathon Mackinnon and Mac-Talla Síobhra Aiken (QUB): Gaeltacht communities in North America: Real or Imagined? 16.00-17.00 Round table Enda Delaney (Edinburgh), Désha Osborne (Edinburgh) Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna (Galway) 17.00 Close
'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇
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A bheil ùidh agaibh ann am foillseachadh, agus Gàidhlig fhileanta agaibh?
Tha sinn a' maoineachadh sgoilearachd airson a’ chùrsa MLitt Foghlam Foillseachaidh aig Oilthigh Shruighlea, airson cùrsa 2025-26 (a’ tòiseachadh san t-Sultain 2025).
Cuiribh a-steach ro 11 Lùnastal 2025: bit.ly/sgoilearachd
One day to go!
Online tickets here 👉
www.eventbrite.com/e/interrogat...
**Deadline tomorrow!** A reminder of this opportunity at @uofglasgow.bsky.social for a Research & Teaching post in #CelticStudies, lasting almost 3 years.
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..suppose we've waited long enough to show you this ABSOLUTELY TOP SECRET SPECIAL ISSUE (2025) CONTENTS page.
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A late 19th-century postcard. The printed text reads: Mottoes for those going “Doon the Watter” If it's losing the boat, or losing your drink— lose the boat. The image shows a colour illustration of a moustachio'd young man, standing at a bar, wearing a boater hat at a rakish angle, a dark green jacket, a yellow-and-white striped waistcoat and a red bow tie. He has one hand in his pocket as he looks over his shoulder, out of the door of the bar to see, in the distance, a steamship leaving the harbour. He raises a full pint mug to toast its departure.
“…on one occasion the Highland Queen was berthed by the master and a boy, the rest of the crew being quite incapable…”
#Scots & #Gaelic: steamships, “steaming”, drunkenness & “smùid” – Donald Meek on going doon the watter, & early Scottish booze-cruising
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New blog post: "Smùid".
If you like Gàidhlig, the Clyde, Romanticism, steam carriages, bad poetry, and Felix Mendelssohn's snarky travelling companion then you might enjoy this.
If you like some of them but not all then you probably won't, but give it a go anyway.
new-cleckit.dominie.scot/smuid/
Students missing avge of 10 days per session due to menstrual symptoms (↑ 19 day for those with diagnosed conditions).
‘70% unable to concentrate on studies or assessments because of period pain, while 45% cite heavy menstrual bleeding as a factor.’
'under-supported' is an understatement!
