The earliest vernacular literatures of medieval Western Europe were produced in Britain and Ireland in Old English, Gaelic, and Brittonic languages. Our Anglophone world privileges Old English ...
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AN SPIDEAL, Ireland — Generations of English-speaking tourists who have used this pretty village of thatched cottages as a jumping-off point for the pleasures of the wild Connemara region have known ...
It was 1932, it was Edinburgh, and young Sammy from Raasay – barely 20, an earnest university student – had notions to be a poet. But his early, stilted efforts in English – self-consciously in the ...
MIP: Hello everyone, and thank you for joining us for another coffee break with MIP. Our guest today is Colin Ireland, Resident Director, Emeritus, of Arcadia University, and we'll be talking about ...
The number of people using Gaelic has increased across Scotland despite a decline in the language's heartland, according to the latest census data. Experts say the increase in Gaelic medium education ...
In the heart of the Isle of Lewis sits the newly opened An Taigh Cèilidh, the ‘Gaelic cafe’ that has Scots hopeful about the future of their endangered language. Picture this – you discover a love of ...
One of the world’s best-selling books has been translated into Gaelic. Moray Watson, a professor of Gaelic and translation at the University of Aberdeen, began working on a Gaelic draft of JRR Tolkien ...
Gaelic will be heard during the King’s coronation, it has been announced, the first time it has featured as part of the service. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get ...
Season seven of Outlander features more Gaelic than ever before as Roger MacKenzie (played by Richard Rankin) starts giving local lessons to his fellow villagers. Fans of the Starz series might be ...
As a native Gael who survived an education system designed to eliminate my language and culture, I share Iain WD Forde's concern for the place of Braid Scots in our education system (Gaelic isn't ...