#gaidhlig — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gaidhlig, aggregated by home.social.
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Colaisde na Gàidhlig: Wednesday Night Ceilidh - September 9, 2026
Featuring Koryne MacDonald and Andrew Doyle
www.gaeliccollege.edu
Coimhead air: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-THoZuWCko
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NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Edinburgh launch
15 September, Blackwell’s, South Bridge – £3 / £11 with bookCelebrate 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 #shortfiction #shortstories #writing #writingcommunity #Edinburgh
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NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Edinburgh launch
15 September, Blackwell’s, South Bridge – £3 / £11 with bookCelebrate 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 #shortfiction #shortstories #writing #writingcommunity #Edinburgh
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NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Edinburgh launch
15 September, Blackwell’s, South Bridge – £3 / £11 with bookCelebrate 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 #shortfiction #shortstories #writing #writingcommunity #Edinburgh
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NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Edinburgh launch
15 September, Blackwell’s, South Bridge – £3 / £11 with bookCelebrate 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 #shortfiction #shortstories #writing #writingcommunity #Edinburgh
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NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Edinburgh launch
15 September, Blackwell’s, South Bridge – £3 / £11 with bookCelebrate 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 #shortfiction #shortstories #writing #writingcommunity #Edinburgh
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The long exhale is what actually pulls the brake. You'll feel it land behind the sternum, a half-inch drop, unmistakable.
Cuir do làmh air do chridhe — put your hand on your heart. Do it while you breathe, so the body has a witness.
Your jaw is doing something right now. Check.
What does your body do first when it braces?
#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Somatic #NervousSystem #SelfCare #Breathwork #Druid #Grounding #MentalHealth #Community #Practice
The whole morning's issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/firesale-everything-blanche-must-go-also-the-uss-lincoln-is-an-awolfest
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The long exhale is what actually pulls the brake. You'll feel it land behind the sternum, a half-inch drop, unmistakable.
Cuir do làmh air do chridhe — put your hand on your heart. Do it while you breathe, so the body has a witness.
Your jaw is doing something right now. Check.
What does your body do first when it braces?
#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Somatic #NervousSystem #SelfCare #Breathwork #Druid #Grounding #MentalHealth #Community #Practice
The whole morning's issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/firesale-everything-blanche-must-go-also-the-uss-lincoln-is-an-awolfest
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The long exhale is what actually pulls the brake. You'll feel it land behind the sternum, a half-inch drop, unmistakable.
Cuir do làmh air do chridhe — put your hand on your heart. Do it while you breathe, so the body has a witness.
Your jaw is doing something right now. Check.
What does your body do first when it braces?
#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Somatic #NervousSystem #SelfCare #Breathwork #Druid #Grounding #MentalHealth #Community #Practice
The whole morning's issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/firesale-everything-blanche-must-go-also-the-uss-lincoln-is-an-awolfest
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The long exhale is what actually pulls the brake. You'll feel it land behind the sternum, a half-inch drop, unmistakable.
Cuir do làmh air do chridhe — put your hand on your heart. Do it while you breathe, so the body has a witness.
Your jaw is doing something right now. Check.
What does your body do first when it braces?
#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Somatic #NervousSystem #SelfCare #Breathwork #Druid #Grounding #MentalHealth #Community #Practice
The whole morning's issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/firesale-everything-blanche-must-go-also-the-uss-lincoln-is-an-awolfest
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The long exhale is what actually pulls the brake. You'll feel it land behind the sternum, a half-inch drop, unmistakable.
Cuir do làmh air do chridhe — put your hand on your heart. Do it while you breathe, so the body has a witness.
Your jaw is doing something right now. Check.
What does your body do first when it braces?
#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Somatic #NervousSystem #SelfCare #Breathwork #Druid #Grounding #MentalHealth #Community #Practice
The whole morning's issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/firesale-everything-blanche-must-go-also-the-uss-lincoln-is-an-awolfest
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Before you touch the news: inhale through the nose, then — without exhaling — take a second short sip of air stacked on top of the first. Let it out slow through the mouth, longer than the inhale, like fogging a windowpane. Three rounds.
That second little sip reinflates the collapsed sacs at the bottom of your lungs.
#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Somatic #NervousSystem #SelfCare #Breathwork #Druid #Grounding #MentalHealth #Community #Practice #Embodiment
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Before you touch the news: inhale through the nose, then — without exhaling — take a second short sip of air stacked on top of the first. Let it out slow through the mouth, longer than the inhale, like fogging a windowpane. Three rounds.
That second little sip reinflates the collapsed sacs at the bottom of your lungs.
#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Somatic #NervousSystem #SelfCare #Breathwork #Druid #Grounding #MentalHealth #Community #Practice #Embodiment
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Before you touch the news: inhale through the nose, then — without exhaling — take a second short sip of air stacked on top of the first. Let it out slow through the mouth, longer than the inhale, like fogging a windowpane. Three rounds.
That second little sip reinflates the collapsed sacs at the bottom of your lungs.
#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Somatic #NervousSystem #SelfCare #Breathwork #Druid #Grounding #MentalHealth #Community #Practice #Embodiment
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Before you touch the news: inhale through the nose, then — without exhaling — take a second short sip of air stacked on top of the first. Let it out slow through the mouth, longer than the inhale, like fogging a windowpane. Three rounds.
That second little sip reinflates the collapsed sacs at the bottom of your lungs.
#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Somatic #NervousSystem #SelfCare #Breathwork #Druid #Grounding #MentalHealth #Community #Practice #Embodiment
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Before you touch the news: inhale through the nose, then — without exhaling — take a second short sip of air stacked on top of the first. Let it out slow through the mouth, longer than the inhale, like fogging a windowpane. Three rounds.
That second little sip reinflates the collapsed sacs at the bottom of your lungs.
#Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Somatic #NervousSystem #SelfCare #Breathwork #Druid #Grounding #MentalHealth #Community #Practice #Embodiment
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My birthday is coming in 2 days (31st of August). On this day I do not interact, talk or engage at all. People ask me why, and I can tell you that that there is a way to express it. I just dont.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/co-l-breith-the-corner-that-all-of-us-find
#ChosenFamily #QueerSpace #LGBTQIA #TransRights #Memoir #AmWriting #CPTSD #ChildhoodTrauma #SurvivorStories #Grief #Gaidhlig #Druid
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A whole apothecary sitting in the wet ground at the edge of everything, and most of us walk past it.
What do you reach for when your throat's been used hard?#Herbalism #Herbalist #Alder #Feàrna #FolkMedicine #Foraging #Botany #Nature #Gardening #Druid #Folklore #Gàidhlig
Full entry, with the food-as-medicine always → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/half-staff-for-a-woman-he-couldn-t-buy-dolly-s-gone-trump-s-numbers-are-in-the-goddamn-cellar-and-th#the-nurturing-food-as-medicine?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedicaThis lands free in inboxes every morning if you want it → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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High in tannins: they bind iron and blunt oral medications, so leave two hours either side of anything you take on a schedule. Skip it in pregnancy or if you're anemic. And be certain of your identification — alder is not buckthorn, and buckthorn is a violent purgative. If you're eighty percent sure about the tree, buy the bark instead. #Herbalism #Herbalist #Alder #Feàrna #FolkMedicine #Foraging #Botany #Nature #Gardening #Druid #Folklore #Gàidhlig
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Grey alder — Alnus incana, feàrna. For the throat that's been screaming.
Dried inner bark only, aged several months, never fresh — fresh bark will make you vomit, which is exactly why the old preparation insists on the drying. One teaspoon to a cup, simmered ten minutes, strained, cooled to warm. Gargle and spit. Good as an external wash on weepy skin and foot soaks.
#Herbalism #Herbalist #Alder #Feàrna #FolkMedicine #Foraging #Botany #Nature #Gardening #Druid #Folklore #Gàidhlig
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Look what my dad spotted in Brisbane Domestic Airport 🔥🔥🔥
Seall air seo! Chunnaic m' athair an leabhar agam aig Port-adhair Bhrisbane 🔥🔥🔥
#LoveOzYA #TransBooks #QueerBooks #YAbooks #KidLit #OzLit #AusLit #Brisbane #Meanjin #Gaidhlig
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“An Eala Bhan” (“The White Swan”) has been performed by a huge number of Gaelic artists from Julie Fowlis to Capercallie & Linda Macleod who grew up in the same part of North Uist as Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna. She speaks here to Cathy McDonald about the significance of the song and the man behind it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p03z41p3
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #warpoetry #Somme #WW1
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Gur duilich leam mar tha mi
’S mo chridhe ’n sàs aig bròn
Bhon an uair a dh’fhàg mi
Beanntan ard a’ cheò
Gleanntannan a’ mhànrain
Nan loch, nam bàgh ‘s nan sròm
’S an eala bhàn tha tàmh orra
Gach là air ’m bheil mi ’n tòir…—Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna, “An Eala Ban”
The First Battle of the Somme began #OTD, 1 July, 1916. Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna / Donald MacDonald composed “An Eala Bhan” (“The White Swan”) during the battle.
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #warpoetry #Somme #WW1
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THE BOY MAEVE is available for purchase in hard copy + ebook forms in Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa 🇦🇺 🇳🇿
It's also available for purchase in ebook form in the UK and USA 🇬🇧 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇺🇸
Tha mi cho sona ri bròg a ràdh gu bheil sin a' ciallachadh gum faodaidh tu a cheannach ann an Alba cuideachd mar leabhar-d!
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#YAbooks #YoungAdult #YA #LoveOzYA #AusLit #TransBooks #Pride #QueerBooks #LGBTbooks #bookstodon #Australia #NewZealand #Aotearoa #USA #UK #England #Wales #Scotland #Alba #Gàidhlig
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The Boy Maeve will be in bookstores this Tuesday 26 May 2026! | Bidh The Boy Maeve a' tighinn a-mach! (Ann an Astràilia co-dhiù.)
#LoveOzYA #DebutCrew2026 #PublicationWeek #Gàidhlig #TransBooks
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Thàinig uair-san leis na sligean,
leis na spealgan-iarainn beàrnach,
anns an toit is anns an lasair,
ann an crith is maoim na h-àraich…—Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean) (1911–1996), “Curaidhean” (“Heroes”)
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #WarPoetry #WW2 #VEDay
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Ossian’s Last Stand?
27 May, online. Tickets from £3.55For over a century after the publication of James Macpherson’s Ossianic epics, controversy raged over their authenticity. In this talk, Prof Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart will look at how the literary battle lines were drawn on both sides, & how the controversy was fought out, in books, magazines, letters, & reports.
#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Ossian #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury
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Chì mi rè geàrd na h-oidhche
dreòs air chrith ’na fhroidhneas thall air fàire,
a’ clapail le a sgiathaibh,
a’ sgapadh ’s a’ ciaradh rionnagan na h-àird’ ud…—Deòrsa Mac Iain Deòrsa (George Campbell Hay), “Bisearta”. Hay witnessed the Allied bombing of Bizerte in 1943
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #warpoetry #ww2
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For #Januread * we read yesterday and today again
James C. Christensen / Renwick St. James / Alan Dean Foster: Die Reise der Basset
[translated by Ulrike von Sobbe, orig. Voyage of the Basset]
#ReadingTo #Reading #Vorlesen #Buch #ChildrensBooks #Fantasy
Medusa and trolls.Today a bit more time:
Pushing Asimov's Foundation forward, and a bit of #Gaidhlig with
Jason Bond, An caisteal fon mhuir
#Leughadh* #ScottishBookTrust
https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/reading-and-stories/januread -
Yesterday's #Januread were some different bits and bobs in #Gaidhlig and from
Harriet Muncaster: #IsadoraMoon goes to school
https://global.oup.com/education/product/9780192744319/
#ReadingTo #Reading #Vorlesen #Buch #ChildrensBooksBook finished*. No spoilers 😉
Januread is an initiative to support reading every day in January:
https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/reading-and-stories/januread* Second time? Third time? 🤷 😅
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“War polarises. It works by defining otherness. But for Hay, North Africa yielded a particular sense of how all cultures live across their differences. […] It is not simply that death levels all, but that languages deepen and extend humanity.”
Prof Alan Riach looks at the influence of WW2 on the poetry of Sorley MacLean & George Campbell Hay
2/7
https://www.thenational.scot/news/19307039.born-war/
#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poem #poetry #Warpoetry #WW2
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Chì mi rè geàrd na h-oidhche
dreòs air chrith ’na fhroidhneas thall air fàire,
a’ clapail le a sgiathaibh,
a’ sgapadh ’s a’ ciaradh rionnagan na h-àird’ ud…—“Bisearta”, by Deòrsa Mac Iain Deòrsa (George Campbell Hay, 1915–1984). Born #OTD, 8 Dec, Hay fought in North Africa & winessed the Allied bombing of Bizerte in 1943
1/7
#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poem #poetry #Warpoetry #WW2
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Boillsgeadh air eilean Loch an Eilein.
Tha giùthsach àrsaidh a' cuartachadh an locha.
Sun falls on the eilean in Loch an Eilein. Ancient Scots Pine forest surrounds the loch.
#Scotland #forest #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #ThickTrunkTuesday #Aviemore #MastoDaoine
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For a brilliant introduction to Macpherson and the “Ossian” poems, we suggest our International Companion, ed. Dafydd Moore – available in print or online via Project MUSE
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Cover 🖼️: Karoli, The woes of Ossian
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic4/
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig
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Ossian, the European National Epic
Gauti Kristmannsson“The number of translations & imitations […] underlines the huge creative impulse of the [Ossian] poems, which can be seen as a major paradigm shift in the outlook of what is called high culture literature.”
8/9
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig
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“He’s usually scorned by English-language readers as a charlatan. But he knew Gaelic, he travelled in the Highlands & he talked to Gaelic speakers. […] All works of art are made by artifice.”
Prof Alan Riach on James Macpherson’s “Ossian”
7/9
https://www.thenational.scot/news/18453868.unlocking-james-macphersons-tales-ossian/
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig
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Prof Derick Thomson conducted extensive research into the Gaelic sources of Macpherson’s poetry. This dimension is still often overlooked by scholars & many seem to be entirely unaware of it. Dr Petra Johana Poncarová explores Thomson’s work in this field
6/9
https://anglica-journal.com/article/144001/en
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig
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Another likely reason why he was (& still is) sneered at was his popularity & success… Undoubtedly he padded his texts & added his own inventions—as writers do. Real or fake, whole swathes of the modern literary world still lie in his shadow
5/9
🖼️: Runciman, The Death of Oscar
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig
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Macpherson did not find his texts in “ancient manuscripts” – though there are some, e.g. The Red Book of Clanranald & the Book of the Dean of Lismore. But 18th-century attitudes dismissed the oral tradition which formed the bedrock of the poems
4/9
🖼️: Scheffer, La Mort de Malvina
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig
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Today, Macpherson is often called a “faker” & “forger”. But much of the hostility towards him is because, shortly after the Jacobite rebellions, he staked a claim for the existence of a Gaelic high culture
3/9
🖼️: Girodet, Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of Fallen French Heroes
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig
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Ossian fans included Goethe, Diderot, Jefferson, Bonaparte, Mendelssohn… Ossian-inspired art was created across Europe. Children were given Ossianic names such as Oscar & Fiona (will children still get named “Daenerys” in 250 years?)
2/9
🖼️: Abildgaard, Ossian Singing
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig
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James Macpherson (1736–1796), of “Ossian” fame, was born #OTD, 27 Oct. The “Ossian” poems were the literary sensation of the 18th century; they inspired the Brothers Grimm to collect German folktales, & Elias Lönnrot to compile Finnish poems into the Kalevala. They are the founding texts of European Romanticism & of modern fantasy literature
A 🎂🧵
@litstudies
1/9
🖼️: Ingres, Le Songe d’Ossian#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #fantasy #Ossian #JamesMacpherson #Gaelic #Gaidhlig
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New #AcademicYear - New #introduction
I am a researcher at #DundeeUni and interested in health-related quality of life
#HRQoL #PsychometricsI teach #ResearchMethodology and #ResearchMethods with a focus on #Quantitative methods.
I worked for 7yrs as a #NightshiftEditor and I am still mulling over roles in and sense of #AcademicPublishing
This is mainly a work account, but I also post #Dundee stuff such as #DunDeCofaidh and occasional #Deutsch #Svenska #Gaidhlig (👉 pure work account at BSky)
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Ossian: The world’s greatest literary hoax?
10 April, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh – freePoet & playwright Martin O’Connor & historian Dr Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart delve into literary hoaxes, tartan-trimmed myths, & the interplay between authenticity & Scottish identity
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ossian-the-worlds-greatest-literary-hoax-tickets-1257980175569
#Scottish #literature #culture #identity #Macpherson #Ossian #18thcentury #poetry #Gaelic #Gaidhlig
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Goethe, Jefferson, Diderot, Mendelssohn were all Ossian fans… Grimms’ fairy tales, the Kalevala, European Romanticism, all stem from Macpherson’s work. Much of modern fantasy literature has roots in “Ossian”.
More here! 👇 From all good bookshops, & online via Project MUSE
4/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic4/
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Ossian #Oscar #Fantasy
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“Oscar” became a popular name, especially in Scandinavia, & eventually became the name of the Academy Award too.
It wasn’t the only popular name to come from Macpherson’s works: “Fiona” is another. People went nuts for Ossian. (Will anyone be naming their daughters “Daenerys” in 250 years?)
3/4
🖼️Title page, THE POEMS OF OSSIAN (1809 edn)
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Ossian #Oscar #AcademyAwards #Oscars
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In Macpherson’s “Ossian” – derived in part from songs & legends preserved in Gaelic oral tradition – Oscar was the son of Ossian, & grandson of Fingal. Napoleon was a HUGE Ossian fan, & gave the name to his godson, who became Oscar I of Sweden 🇸🇪
2/4
🖼️ Crown Prince Oscar of Sweden, 1799–1859
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Ossian #Oscar #Napoleon #Bonaparte #Sweden #AcademyAwards #Oscars
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The Academy Awards are almost upon us, & no-one is sure how the Oscars got their name. Bette Davis’s first husband? Margaret Herrick’s uncle? But “Oscar” – a name from ancient Gaelic legend – owes its modern popularity to James Macpherson’s 18th-century “Ossian” poems
1/4
🖼️ from CHATTERBOX (1890)
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Ossian #Oscar #AcademyAwards #Oscars
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An t-slighe a dh’Inbhir Ghòrdain madainn an-diugh.
#InbhirGhòrdain #Invergordon #CaolasChrombaigh #CromartyFirth #RosCuithne #Rosskeen #RosAnEar #EasterRoss #aGhàidhealtachd #ScottishHighlands #Gàidhlig #Gaelic @gaidhlig
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An t-adhar os cionn Bhaile Eòghainn a-nochd
#BaileEòghainn #Evanton #RosAnEar #EasterRoss #AGhàidhealtachd #ScottishHighlands #Alba #Scotland #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #CleachdI @gaidhlig