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Gaelic in Scotland, Gaelic in Canada: Challenges, Prospects, Connections
26 June
free online

Many Scots are not aware of how widely spoken Gaelic once was in Scotland, & most Canadians don’t know that at the time of Confederation, Gaelic was likely the third most widely-spoken language in Canada.

Prof Robert Dunbar will explore efforts by activists, communities & governments to support the language & its speakers in both countries.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/gaelic-in-scotland-gaelic-in-canada-challenges-prospects-connections-tickets-1237760387639

#Scotland #Canada #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

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On Thursday 19th we will be celebrating the launch of Dark Crescent by #Edinburgh scribe @lyndseycroal , with tales inspired by #Scottish folklore, published by Luna Press
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/events-1/lyndsey-croal-dark-crescent-book-launch

#books #livres #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield #LyndseyCroal #BookLaunch #BookEvent #AuthorEvent #DarkCrescent #Fantasy #Scotland #Ecosse #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon

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Goonie: Poetry Extravaganza with Michael Mullen & Friends
20 June, Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh. £0–£10.99

Exploring queerness through fierce lyrical poetry & celebrating Scotland through vernacular vignettes, GOONIE is Michael Mullen’s debut collection

https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/goonie-poetry-extravaganza-with-michael-mullen-and-friends

#Scottish #literature #poetry #queer #queerness #Scotland #Scots #Scotslanguage

A bumfled rug, dark blue, with a red, yellow, pink, white and green floral pattern. Text:

poetry launch
michael mullen
+ fellow Edwin Morgan Award Winners
friday 20th june
indie bookshop week
poetry extravaganza

Next to the text is a cover image for GOONIE, by Michael Mullen. Looking down at a carpet of the same design, we can see a pair of feet wearing black men's shoes and dark trousers, and a single foot wearing a silver slipper-style woman's shoe and a bright red stocking.

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255d

Across The Bay

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/across-the-bay-justin-farrimond.html

This stretch of water has a beautiful name, the Sound of Iona. A mile wide channel between the isles of Mull and Iona. Taken with a toy camera this shot has the look of a cheap 70's postcard. Splendid.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #Art #Travel #InteriorDesign #ArtPrint #MediumFormat #BelieveInFilm #InnerHebrides #Scotland #FilmPhotography #Seascape

Colour photograph showing a stretch of water between two islands.

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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds, & the Paranormal
Scotland’s Darkest Folklore

Currently available on BBC Sounds: exploring tales of selkies, kelpies, & the ancient figure of the Cailleach. Maddy & Anthony's guest today is Donald Smith, founding director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre, & a storyteller who has written & lectured widely on the folklore of Scotland.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0l2hncz

#Scottish #literature #folklore #supernatural #myth #paranormal #storytelling #Scotland

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Mastodon.scot is a Mastodon server intended for (but not limited to) users in Scotland or who identify as Scottish:

https://mastodon.scot

You can find out more at https://mastodon.scot/about or contact the admin @trumpet

#FeaturedServer #Scotland #Scottish #Scots #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

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223d

The grey roots circle thee, who never knew
At any hour within thy travels lone
A human shape but mine…

—Olive Fraser, “The Adder of Quinag”
First published in The Pure Account (Aberdeen University Press, 1981), & included in The Wrong Music (@canongatebooks 1989)

A poem for #WorldSnakeDay 🐍

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/adder-quinag/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #naturewriting #Scotland #highlands #snake #snakes

The Adder of Quinag
Olive Fraser

The grey roots circle thee, who never knew
At any hour within thy travels lone
A human shape but mine. Thou com’st to view,
Wild, unafraid, what stands beside thy stone
And gazes on thee in thy wilderness
Of fifty miles. What thinkst thou of me,
For I am of a race thou could’st not guess
Would murder all thy hapless innocency?

O mountain, take thy small heart back again
And keep him in thy care when I shall go,
Unvisited by all things but the rain,
The hurtless sunbeams, and the winds that blow
For ever in his moors. O let him hold
No intricate memory of that being who stood
Just once by his wild beauty, and did fold
Him with a blessing alien to my blood.

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218d

Happy Glasgow Fair Monday!

“…on one occasion the Highland Queen was berthed by the master and a boy, the rest of the crew being quite incapable…”

Steamships, “steaming”, drunkenness & “smùid” – Donald Meek on going doon the watter, & early Scottish booze-cruising

https://meekwrite.blogspot.com/2013/04/maritime-and-linguistic-studies.html

#Scottish #Scotland #Scots #Scotslanguage #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #steaming #GlasgowFair #FairMonday #culturalstudies #19thcentury #20thcentury #alcohol #steamboat

A late 19th-century postcard. The printed text reads:

Mottoes for those going
“Doon the Watter”

If it's losing the boat,
or losing your drink—
lose the boat.

The image shows a colour illustration of a moustachio'd young man, standing at a bar, wearing a boater hat at a rakish angle, a dark green jacket, a yellow-and-white striped waistcoat and a red bow tie. He has one hand in his pocket as he looks over his shoulder, out of the door of the bar to see, in the distance, a steamship leaving the harbour. He raises a full pint mug to toast its departure.

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223d

What's The Dream Story

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/whats-the-dream-story-justin-farrimond.html

Beneath the dreamscape varnish life goes on in Tobermory.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #Art #PhotographyIsArt #Dreamscape #Travel #Tobermory #Harbour #Scotland #ArtPrint #InteriorDesign

Colour adjusted dark photograph showing a harbourside scene with a boat moored in the water and colourful buildings behind.

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Come to St Monans! A wee gem nestled in the East Neuk of Fife. Beautiful views, amazing fish & chips, intermittent haar, occasional existential dread & monsters

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c043n0kl71wo

#Scotland #Fife #EastNeuk #StMonans #horror #videogames #SilentHill #Townfall #SilentHillTownfall

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Just arrived in paperback - Alastair Moffat's Edinburgh: a New History, published by Birlinn Books.

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#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #livres #History #Histoire #EdinburghANewHistory #AlastairMoffat #Birlinn #BirlinnBooks #Scotland #Ecosse #ScottishLiterature #ScottishHistory #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon

Paperback cover to Edinburgh a New History, showing a painting of the city and Castle, viewed from the side of Arthur's Seat

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📚 **10+ Best Bookshops in Edinburgh You Must Visit (Local Guide for Book Lovers)**

>>If you are ever in Edinburgh and in need of visiting a bookshop this is for you.

🔗 https://www.solosophie.com/best-bookshops-edinburgh/.

#Books #Bookstodon #Edinburgh #Scotland @bookstodon

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215d

Just a wee reminder on the eve of Trump's visit to #Scotland

#Trump #US #Menie #Aberdeenshire #golf

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214d

Hey relax guy. LOL
I wish I could see his face seeing this episode.

The creators of South Park have more integrity than every fucking news media corporation in this fucking country.

#southpark #epstein #Scotland #UK #media #press

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For anyone looking at those reposts on Burns I just shared, and curious about Scottish poetry, but not sure where to begin, may I suggest some of our new generation of younger poets such as Len Pennie, Michael Pedersen or Jeda Pearl. And of course the veterans such as the wonderful Jackie Kay, or the (sadly now late) John Burnside.

For more ideas, snippets of the works etc, try the Scottish Poetry Library https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/

#Scotland #ScottishLiteratyre #poetry #bookstodon

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Is ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net fear de dh’iomadh frithealaiche Mastodon neo-eisimeileach as urrainn dhut cleachdadh airson pàirt a ghabhail sa cho-shaoghal. Tha am frithealaiche seo ann do luchd na Gàidhlig.

https://ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net

Mu dhèidhinn: https://ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net/about
Rianachd le: @gunchleoc

#FeaturedServer #Gàidhlig #Alba #Scotland #Scottish #ScottishGaelic #Gaelic #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

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221d

WRITERS!

New Writing Scotland seeks a new co-editor for English- & Scots-language work. Applicants should be currently based in Scotland & have a strong publishing record, with a focus on prose. Post is up to 3 years: stipend £1500 per issue.

@writingcommunity

Details 👇

https://asls.org.uk/new-writing-scotland-seeks-co-editor/

#Scottish #Scotland #writers #writing #writingcommunity

NEW WRITING SCOTLAND

ASL is seeking applications to be a co-editor of New Writing Scotland, from writers currently based in Scotland. Applicants should have a strong publishing record of their own, with a focus on prose; previous editorial experience would be an advantage. The post will run for up to three years from 2026, for volumes 44, 45, and 46, publishing in 2026, 2027, and 2028 (dependent on funding).

Our editors jointly select approximately 50 pieces – poetry and prose – from the English- and Scots-language submissions we receive each year. The submissions are anonymised, and we provide editors with paper copies to read. As an editor, we’d ask you to attend launches in Edinburgh and Glasgow (travelling expenses would be paid). Editors receive an annual £1500 stipend and full editorial credit.

We encourage applications from all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from people who are under-represented within the sector, including from BPOC applicants (Black people and People of Colour), disabled people, LGBTQIA+ applicants and those from a low socioeconomic background.

Please send a CV and a one-page application letter, outlining your qualifications for the position, to admin@asls.org.uk by midnight on Monday 4 August 2025.

Submission to New Writing Scotland is free and open to all. You can find our submission instructions here.

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“People need to hear a story like this now,” says Pinar Aksu … “We don’t always have a victory at the end of our stories, but hope is all we’ve got.”

The award-winning EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET premieres at the Glasgow film festival, 25 February

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/24/power-pyjamas-everybody-to-kenmure-street-glasgow-immigration

#Scottish #film #cinema #KenmureStreet #Scotland #Glasgow

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“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.”

—Alastair Cole: How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas

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

#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO #fishing #fishingindustry #Hebrides #language #minoritylanguage

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Islands Matter Public Seminar: Faroese & Shetlandic Folklore
26 February, free online

Prof Jóan Pauli Joensen (University of the Faroe Islands) on “Water Beings in the Faroese Folklore – Tradition & Change” & Prof Andrew Jennings (UHI Institute for Northern Studies) on “From Fetlar to Foula – The Norse Roots of Shetland Folklore”

https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-enterprise/cultural/institute-for-northern-studies/events/islands-matter-public-seminar---faroese--shetlandic-folklore.html

#Scottish #Scotland #Shetlandic #Faroese #Shetland #Faroes #folklore #Norse

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