Bha mi nam shuidhe air being nuair a chluinn mi faram dhuilleagan seargta* air mo chùlaibh. Thionndaidh mi 's chunnaic an dearc-làidir sreap craobh. Chan eil iadsan beag. Tha an coimhearsnachd mu chuirt an seo glè inntinneach agus beò-ghlacmhor
We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
“Ireland & Gaelic Scotland have been often perceived as closely related, sister nations – & the poem “Dùn nan Gall” (Donegal) by Derick Thomson […] explores this sibling image in a startling manner when the two languages, #Irish & #Scottish#Gaelic are envisaged as two sisters dying in each other’s arms.”
CFP: Fourth World Congress of Scottish Literatures
3–7 July 2024, University of Nottingham, UK
There is no set theme but the organisers would welcome papers on e.g. the relationship between #Scotland & #England from earliest times to the present, a relationship which has had profound implications for the entire world, & which is a significant relationship in literatures in #Scots, #Gaelic, #English, #French & #Latin
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Medieval (Scottish) Gaelic literature: the case of Finn mac Cumaill
23 May, 5–6:30pm BST (6–7:30 CET), free online
Introducing the corpus of #medieval works centred on the legendary hero Finn mac Cumaill. The earliest texts are #Irish – yet, outwith the #Gaelic tradition, Finn is often seen as a #Scottish literary creation, not least because of James Macpherson’s imagining of him as Fingal in the #18thcentury
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