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Alistair MacLean (1922–1987) – author of The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare, etc. – was born #OTD, 21 April, 1922. A native #Gaelic speaker, he grew up near Inverness. @NeilDrysdale looks at MacLean’s remarkable life:

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Please Help Me On My Neurodiversity Journey

It's humiliating to have to do this, but given #NHS Lothian's inability to let me see a #neurodiversity specialist timeously, or recognise my private diagnosis and medicate on that basis, I feel I am left with no choice but to take this route.

My next #ADHD consultation will be around £800 and donations on top of that will ensure that I can afford the costly meds.

gofund.me/84e9f024

#GoFundMe#PleaseHelp#Gaidhlig
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“The representation in Gaelic literature of Culloden […] makes a study of that literature, even in translation, a vital corrective to that of more exclusively English or Scottish literature in Scots & English.”

—Prof Alan Riach

thenational.scot/news/18371691

The National · The poetry of the Battle of Culloden and what it signifiedBy Alan Riach
#Scottish#literature#history
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mar a rachadh sinn, clann na dùthcha,
mach as a bhaile-mhór, air feasgar àrd
samhraidh…

—Aonghas MacNeacail, “feasgar samhraidh (do Dhaibhidh A. MacDhòmhnaill)”
published in THE HUNTERIAN POEMS, ed. Alan Riach (Freight, 2015)

A poem for #WorldArtDay

David Abercrombie Donaldson, “Landscape outside Glasgow”, c. 1955

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feasgar samhraidh (do Dhaibhidh A. MacDhòmhnaill) Aonghas MacNeacail mar a rachadh sinn, clann na dùthcha, mach as a bhaile-mhór, air feasgar àrd samhraidh, gus am b’urrainn dhuinn anail ghlan a tharrainn, eadar nan coca, agus cuimhne ghiùlain leinn air liuthad eallach a chuir lùb anns an druim òg anns an t-sealladh seo, agus an t-soillse mar sgàilean sioda thar na h-àrainn, tha blas na gréine drùdhadh do smuaintean air na làithean ud, a’ deoghail nan cràdh as an sgeul, gun ri fhaicinn ach buaidh fhàis agus buain, seach an t-seann chairt na h-adagan, ’n an sreathan bàna, direach, próiseil, agus deiseil (theireadh cuid) airson ruighle gun ghluasad, ri fonn fann (is dòcha) na h-oiteig thlàth, air an ùrlar fada gorm – ann am fasgadh nan craobh, na taibhsean nach fhaicear, làn-shona, nan còsan fhéin *** (English translation makes the alt text too long – it is attached below the description of the painting)
Landscape outside Glasgow David Abercrombie Donaldson (1916–1996) The Hunterian, University of Glasgow Oil on canvas, c. 1955 An impressionistic painting of a summer landscape in lowland Scotland, under a blue sky. A two-wheeled flat trailer, painted in faded blue paint, sits in the foreground, parked next to an assemblage of agricultural scrap. Beyond, green fields roll away past dark green trees to a hilly horizon. Between the trailer and the trees are to pale gold haystacks. *** summer evening (for David A. Donaldson) Aonghas MacNeacail the way we’d go, children of the land, out of the city, on a high summer’s evening, so that we could draw clean breath, there between the haycocks, where we carried so many memories of hay bundles bending our young backs in this scene, where light spreads like a silken veil across the terrain, a taste of sun permeates your thoughts about those days, drawing all pains out of the story, nothing seen but the sway of growth and gather, and that old cart the stooks, in their pale rows, are straight, proud, and ready (so some say) for a reel without motion, to a faint tune (perhaps) from benign breezes, on the long green floor – in the shelter of trees, those ghosts remain unseen, utterly content, in their own stalls
#Scottish#literature#Gaelic
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Ossian: The world’s greatest literary hoax?
10 April, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh – free

Poet & playwright Martin O’Connor & historian Dr Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart delve into literary hoaxes, tartan-trimmed myths, & the interplay between authenticity & Scottish identity

eventbrite.co.uk/e/ossian-the-

EventbriteOssian: The world’s greatest literary hoax?Playwright and performer Martin O'Connor and historian Dr. Stiùbhart explore how a work of fiction has shaped Scotland’s cultural identity.
#Scottish#literature#culture
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An Introduction to Gaelic Storytelling
3 May, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh – £14

Join Gaelic storyteller Martin MacIntyre for an introductory session exploring the history, importance & joy in Gaelic storytelling culture in Scotland. This is a bilingual event in English with some content in Gaelic. No prior knowledge of Scottish Gaelic is required to attend, everyone welcome!

scottishstorytellingcentre.onl

scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.ukScottish Storytelling Centre
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“As a patterned textile, [tartan] features straight lines, right angles, bright colours, and no ambiguity; as a symbol, its lines become fuzzy, its angles circular, its colours muddied, and its meaning polysemic.”

—Ellen R. Beard, “When Tartan Was Not Fake: The Disclothing Act in Gaelic Song”

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thebottleimp.org.uk/2022/06/wh

The Bottle Imp · When Tartan Was Not Fake: The Disclothing Act in Gaelic Song - The Bottle ImpTartan is simultaneously a material object, a design template, and a symbol with multiple referents. As a patterned textile, it features straight lines, right angles, bright colours, and no ambiguity; as a symbol, its lines become fuzzy, its angles circular, its colours muddied, and its meaning polysemic (Brown, 9). While this paper addresses the significance […]
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