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Gray Connolly: "Good morning all & OTD [18 August] in 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie raised his standard at Glenfinnan to rally the Scots to the legitimist cause of the Stuart restoration and to commence the Jacobite Rising of the '45. He will build a Scottish army and invade England #Scots #Aye🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿" | nitter
https://nitter.net/GrayConnolly/status/2089819102470869357#m

#Jacobites #Scotland

NAMING THE SNAKES: New Writing Scotland 44
Glasgow launch
8 September, Waterstones Sauchiehall St, Glasgow – £5 / £12 with book

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

https://www.waterstones.com/events/new-writing-scotland-44-launch/glasgow-sauchiehall-street

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #shortfiction #newwriting #booklaunch #Glasgow

I send to you, commissioners,
A paper that may please ye, sirs
(For troth they say it might be worse‍‍
An’ I believe’t)…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “To the Commissioners of Northern Lights”, which Stevenson sent to them along with his design for “a new form of intermittent light”

This weekend is International Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend

1/5

https://illw.net

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #ScotsLanguage #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #lighthouse #engineering

Out of the Shadows

On BBC Sounds: singer & storyteller Karine Polwart tells the story of how a crater on Mercury came to be named after the 18th-century Scottish poet & songwriter Carolina Oliphant

3/3

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qdgg

#Scottish #literature #song #folksong #18thcentury #19thcentury #womenwriters #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #astronomy #romanticism #Mercury

O rowan tree, o rowan tree,
Thou’lt aye be dear tae me,
Entwin’d thou art wi mony ties
O hame and infancy…

Hear Hannah Rarity & Innes White sing Carolina Oliphant’s “The Rowan Tree”

2/3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMrldnhS_MY

#Scottish #literature #song #folksong #18thcentury #19thcentury #womenwriters #Scots #Scotslanguage

The Laird o’ Cockpen, he’s proud an’ he’s great,
His mind is ta’en up wi’ the things o’ the State…

Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) was born #OTD, 16 Aug. Oliphant wrote over 100 popular songs to traditional Scottish tunes. Although she shunned publicity & never acknowledged her authorship, along with Robert Burns she is one of the most significant figures in Scottish folksong

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#Scottish #literature #song #folksong #18thcentury #19thcentury #womenwriters #Scots #Scotslanguage

Nae wind comes owre sae free
Upon the yirden rose
As hill-blawn winds that gae
Whaur the white bloom grows…

—William Soutar, “Summer Song”
published in WILLIAM SOUTAR: Collected Works (Tippermuir, 2024)

https://tippermuirbooks.co.uk/product/william-soutar-collected-works-vols-1-2/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #WilliamSoutar

Upon his guilded chariot led by hours,
With radiant glories darting throw the air,
The sun, high sprung in his diurnal course,
Shed down a day serenely sweet and fair…

—Allan Ramsay (1684–1758), “The Eclipse”

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #eclipse #astronomy #18thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage

#worldcup #Scottish #Hockey over 70s. #scotland doing well. Picture of one of the #scots over 70s playing #France. Scotland won 1-0. Seven #matches in ten days in hot weather for folks all over 70 no #ageism here. #sport #fitness

Scotland 1926
25 Aug, Edinburgh Book Festival

Kirsty Gunn, Alan Riach, and James Robertson revisit the Scottish Renaissance through landmark works including Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, the early work of Neil M Gunn, & other under-sung voices including Willa Muir & Helen Cruickshank. Deep dive into a remarkable literary moment and the writers who helped reshape Scotland’s imaginative life.

https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/kirsty-gunn-alan-riach-and-james-robertson-scotland-1926

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage

Hugh MacDiarmid at 100

A special issue of STUDIES IN SCOTTISH LITERATURE, evolved from papers delivered at the conference ‘MacDiarmid at 100’, held on 31 August 2022 to mark the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in print under that name

9/10

https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol49/iss1/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait

Margaret Tait’s affectionate 1964 biography of Hugh MacDiarmid

8/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8f3BbuqaiY

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #biography #MargaretTait

“Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue”
—Oxford Union Debate, 3 Dec 1964

Corey Gibson on Hugh MacDiarmid, Malcolm X, & their common cultural-political agenda
Modernism/Modernity 3/1 (2018)

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https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/extremism-poiesis

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #MalcolmX #OxfordUnion

A Man in Constant Revolt: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry of World War Two

—Richie McCaffery, International Review of Scottish Studies 43 (2018)

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https://www.irss.uoguelph.ca/index.php/irss/article/view/4541

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #warpoetry #WW2

“It appears that this man writes rather good revolutionary poetry… He is a rabid Scottish Nationalist, but is in close touch with the [Communist] Party”
—1931 Security Service report

Read Prof Scott Lyall’s “Hugh MacDiarmid & the British State”

4/10

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2015/06/hugh-macdiarmid-and-the-british-state/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid #surveillance

His corpse owre a’ the city lies
In ilka square and ilka street
His spilt bluid floods the vera skies
And nae hoose but is darkened wi’t…

—Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Dead Liebknecht”
published in SELECTED POETRY (Carcanet, 2004)

3/10

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857547566/selected-poetry/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

“What MacDiarmid keeps giving is a depth of understanding, an imperative to go out into the world & explore it, & the priority of the patience needed to appreciate it. That is his provenance, one hundred years since”

—Alan Riach on 100 years of “Hugh MacDiarmid”

2/10

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/02/100-years-of-hugh-macdiarmid/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

I’ll ha’e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur
Extremes meet – it’s the only way I ken
To dodge the curst conceit o’ bein’ richt
That damns the vast majority o’ men.

—from “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”

A 🎂🧵 for Hugh MacDiarmid—born #OTD, 11 Aug 1892

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/hugh-macdiarmid

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #modernism #20thcentury #MacDiarmid

Twa Cats anes on a Cheese did light,
To which baith had an equal Right,
But Disputes, sic as aft arise,
Fell out at sharing of the Prize…

—Allan Ramsay (1686–1758), “The twa Cats & the Cheese”
digitised by the National Library of Scotland

Today, 8 August, is International Cat Day
😾 😾 🧀 🐵

https://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/archive/105690319

#Scottish #literature #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #18thcentury #fable #humor #humour #cats #InternationalCatDay

Listen to Ossian’s version of Robert Burns’ “Corn Rigs”, from their 1981 album SEAL SONG:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU6f21Bdsbg&list=PLF04F88F9D6E44609

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #song #18thcentury #folksong #RobertBurns #Lammas #LammasDay #romanticism #Scots #Scotslanguage