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Last night, our choir came together to honour Kenneth, our conductor, who's led the Glasgow Gaelic Musical Association for an incredible 42 years. It was a really special night, and I think he was happy. Bidh sinn gad ionndrainn gu mòr, a Choinnich, chan fhaicear do leithid a-rithisd. #GGMA #Gàidhlig
Pest in a Vest. Thanks to you-know-who for the suggestion
Available as ever for #poetry readings in and around #Edinburgh. If I've supported you previously, or I'm new to your stage, do get in touch.
You may also get a song.
Hybrid lecture: 'Medical practitioners in the Medieval Gaelic world: Myth and history’ this Thursday
The University of Edinburgh's John Bannerman Lecture will take place this Thursday, 13 March, in person at 40 George Square at 5:15 pm GMT (= 1:15 pm EDT), with a promised 'hybrid' format. The speaker is Prof Deborah Hayden of Maynooth University, who will discuss the transmission of medical knowledge in Gaelic in late medieval and early modern Ireland and Scotland.
This is a particularly apt subject for a lecture in memory of my former teacher Dr John Bannerman, among whose scholarship was the book 'The Beatons: a medical kindred in the classical Gaelic tradition'.
More information about the lecture, including the link for free tickets (which should get you onto an email list with further information on remote attendance), may be found here:
https://hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-events/events/john-bannerman-lecture-professor-deborah-hayden
Màiri Mhòr composed “Òran Beinn Lì” after tenants on Skye won back their grazing rights on Ben Lì & a reduction in rent – following “the Battle of the Braes” in 1882, where 50 police officers had fought with local crofters & arrested 5 men & 7 women
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https://thepeoplesvoice.glasgow.ac.uk/song-ben-li-cathy-ann/
“Her cartography of place is a peopled landscape … symbolic of the community & culture that she knew in her youth, & these personal and communal associations have a fervent emphasis in her songs”
—Priscilla Scott on the poetry of Màiri Mhòr nan Òran
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/06/a-sense-of-place-in-the-poetry-of-mairi-mhor-nan-oran/
The 19th-century Gaelic poet & songwriter Màiri Nic a’ Phearsain (Mary MacPherson) – known as Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Great Mary of the Songs) – was born #OTD, 10 March 1821. Much of her work was political & was especially focused on the struggle for land rights
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Fon chàrn, ghabh iad air falbh
gus an tug iad a-mach cliathach Beinn Ghulbain
ri marbh na h-oidhche…
—Rody Gorman, “Leabaidh Dhiarmaid is Gràinne”
published in Dreuchd an Fhigheadair / The Weaver’s Task: a Gaelic Sampler (Scottish Poetry Library, 2007)
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/leabaidh-dhiarmaid-grainne/
An Evening of Poetry in Czech, English, & Gaelic
14 March, Glasgow – free
Petr Hruška will launch the English edition of his prize-winning collection I Caught Sight of My Face (trans. Joshua Mensch). Petr will be joined by Scottish poets Rob A. Mackenzie & Gerald Mangan, & by Czech poet Petra Johana Poncarová who writes in Gaelic.
Death by office block.
Seann taigh-seinnse Ryries aig Margadh an Fheòir na sheasamh ri biastan mòra uinneagach.
The auld howff of Ryries stands in the foot of two new glass monsters at Haymarket, Edinbugh.
#Edinburgh #Scotland #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #StreetPhotography #photography
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@stevenlawson @skinnylatte I see you’ve made some contacts already. For more I’d recommend having a look at #Gàidhlig (how speakers refer to the language). There’s also a dedicated instance https://ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net/public/local which might have some inspiration. There’s also a group @\gaidhlig@a.gup.pe.
Creag na h-Abaid is crogan-deathaich.
The lums of Wallace.
#Scotland #Stirling #WilliamWallace #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #ScottishIndependence
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Cailleach na Linne
Ceann-bliadhna 135 an-diugh.
135 years old today.
3: Meg Bateman, “Dòbhran Marbh”
Published in THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF SCOTTISH VERSE, @canongatebooks 2021
https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/
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
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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?)
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Title page, THE POEMS OF OSSIAN (1809 edn)
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
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Crown Prince Oscar of Sweden, 1799–1859
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
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from CHATTERBOX (1890)
Seachdain na Gàidhlig, tea and farming
I enjoyed the article though...