Belle Stewart (1906–1997) – singer, storyteller, tradition-bearer – was born #OTD, 18 July, in a bow tent on the banks of the Tay at Caputh, near Blairgowrie. She ranks alongside Jeannie Robertson in the roll of the finest Scots ballad-singers.
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folklore
The Secret Commonwealth
30 June, online – ticketed
Dr Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart looks at The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies, compiled in the 17th century by minister, Gaelic scholar & folklorist Robert Kirk (1644–1692 – unless he’s still alive…)
Anima Celtica: Ella Carmichael as scholar, activist & muse in the Scottish Celtic Revival
Ella Carmichael (1870–1928) was born #OTD, 9 Aug. Abigail Burnyeat talks about Ella Carmichael & her role in the Scottish Celtic revival. The first female student of Celtic at Edinburgh University, Ella Carmichael was also founder of the Celtic Union & the journal The Celtic Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVzPDYfsoQ
#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #folklore #CelticStudies #CelticRevival
That August night
the Perseid shower rained
on moor and lily-loch, on a frightened world –
on us, in a roofless shieling
with all our tat…
—Kathleen Jamie, “One of Us”
published in SELECTED POEMS (Picador, 2018)
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
