#gaidhlig — Public Fediverse posts

“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”

https://theconversation.com/how-scottish-gaelic-is-helping-protect-scotlands-seas-155660

#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #conservation #marinelife #language #minoritylanguages #Hebrides

“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”

https://theconversation.com/how-scottish-gaelic-is-helping-protect-scotlands-seas-155660

#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #conservation #marinelife #language #minoritylanguages #Hebrides

“Scientists searched for the inclusion of the Gaelic words for oyster or oysters – eisir, eisirein and eisirean – and oyster habitats… They then found an oyster bed that had not been previously documented”

The discoveries could help rebuild native oyster populations

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck4gl6e0737wo

#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #conservation #marinelife #language #minoritylanguages #Hebrides

“Scientists searched for the inclusion of the Gaelic words for oyster or oysters – eisir, eisirein and eisirean – and oyster habitats… They then found an oyster bed that had not been previously documented”

The discoveries could help rebuild native oyster populations

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck4gl6e0737wo

#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #conservation #marinelife #language #minoritylanguages #Hebrides

NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Edinburgh launch
15 September, Blackwell’s, South Bridge – £3 / £11 with book

Celebrate the latest issue with a mix of readings of poetry, short fiction & non-fiction in English, Gaelic & Scots – all welcome!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/naming-the-snakes-new-writing-scotland-44-tickets-1995684361648

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortstories #shortfiction #writing #writingcommunity #booklaunch #Edinburgh

NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Edinburgh launch
15 September, Blackwell’s, South Bridge – £3 / £11 with book

Celebrate the latest issue with a mix of readings of poetry, short fiction & non-fiction in English, Gaelic & Scots – all welcome!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/naming-the-snakes-new-writing-scotland-44-tickets-1995684361648

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortstories #shortfiction #writing #writingcommunity #booklaunch #Edinburgh

“Our Three-Voiced Country”: 20th-century cross-currents in Gaelic & other Scottish writing
26–28 June, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye

This conference will examine the shared influences & interconnections between Gaelic & other Scottish writing, from the Celtic Revival & the Scottish Renaissance to the beginnings of the new millennium

@litstudies

https://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-bhliadhnail-asl-2026/?lang=en

#Scottish #literature #conference #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #20thcentury #CelticStudies

“Bealltain (Beltane) is the first day of May. On May Day all the fires of the district were extinguished & ‘tein eigin’, need-fire, produced on the knoll.”

—“Am Beannachadh Bealltain” (“The Beltane Blessing”)
from Carmina Gadelica (Alexander Carmichael, 1900), online via the National Library of Scotland

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https://digital.nls.uk/early-gaelic-book-collections/archive/78420254

#Scottish #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #folklore #CelticStudies #Bealltain #Beltane #MayDay

CFP
A Kingdom in Perplexity: Voices of Seventeenth-Century Scotland Symposium
11 June, University of Glasgow

Postgraduate & Early Career Researchers specialising in any aspect of early modern Scottish history, literature & culture are invited to participate in the University of Glasgow’s new interdisciplinary research symposium. Contact [email protected] for details.

#Scottish #literature #history #culture #celticstudies #callforpapers #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

Folklore Material in Ruaraidh Erskine’s Gaelic Magazines
13 March, free online

Dr Petra Poncarová discusses materials on Scottish & other Celtic folklore published in Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar’s Gaelic magazines from 1900 to the 1930s

https://llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scottish-studies/css-seminar-series-260313

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaeilc #folklore #CelticStudies #20thcentury

Nam bhodach liath a-nis
a’ streap gu mullach a bhràighe,
chan eil mi a’ còrdadh riut, a Llywarch,
mun bhata càm is riatanach gach là…

—Uilleam Nèill, “Freagairt Do Llywarch Hen”
published in FRIENDS & KANGAROOS: New Writing Scotland 17 (ASL, 1999)

(Llywarch Hen, c.534–608 CE, was an early Welsh poet & prince of Rheged, who complained about his advancing age & dependence on his walking stick)

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Welsh #CelticStudies

A Tain artist is using her murals to breathe new life into Gaelic, inspired by her late grandmother’s native tongue. #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #BaileDhubhthaich #Tain

‘Better broken Gaelic than Gae...

An t-slighe a dh’Inbhir Ghòrdain madainn an-diugh.

#InbhirGhòrdain #Invergordon #CaolasChrombaigh #CromartyFirth #RosCuithne #Rosskeen #RosAnEar #EasterRoss #aGhàidhealtachd #ScottishHighlands #Gàidhlig #Gaelic @gaidhlig

An sealladh a' coimhead às an rathad-rothaireachd eadar Alanais agus Inbhir Ghòrdain thall Caolas Chrombaigh dhan Eilean Dubh.

#CaolasChrombaigh #CromartyFirth #AntEileanDubh #TheBlackIsle #Alanais #Alness #InbhirGhòrdain #Invergordon #AGhàidhealtachd #ScottishHighlands #Alba #Scotland #Rothaireachd #Cycling #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #CleachdI #MastoDaoine @gaidhlig

Soutra Aisle.

Seann taigh-mhanach agus ospadal bhon 12 linn.

The old friary and hospital of Soutra Aisle, dating from the 12C.

#Scotland #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #SoutraAisle #ScottishBorders #ancient #photography

Rocking it out to Triple J's Hottest 100 Like a Version! Gang of Youths has popped up for the first time at number 75

Seis mhòr ann an Astràilia airson an Ceud Nas Teotha air Triple J an-diugh!

#TripleJ #LikeAVersion #TripleJLikeAVersion #GangOfYouths #Gàidhlig #AusMusic #ceòl #Australia

Joining the #migration and spending time listening and learning to established users of this site for a while. #refugeeswelcome #Refugees #permaculture #EndDetention #peace #intercultural_dialogue #unesco #languages #culture #integration #immigration #Scotland #gaidhlig #knitting #Allotment #life #IonaCommunity #liberationtheology #Decoloniality #justice #academia #joinaunion #ucu #poetry #art #deutsch #francais #portugues #Tigrinya