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Exploring Gaelic magazines founded by Ruaraidh Erskine (1869–1960) | erskine.glasgow.ac.uk | Marie Curie Actions postdoctoral fellowship, guaranteed by UKRI, carried out at the University of Glasgow | investigated by Dr Petra Johana Poncarová
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Monday 24 February, 12-1 pm: an online lunchtime talk for Stirling Magazines and Periodicals Research Group (SMPRG) on Ruaraidh Erskine's Scottish magazines and the online resources created as part of Project ERSKINE. All welcome (DM for Teams links)!

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Video recording of the paper ‘Scots and Twentieth-Century Radical Gaelic Magazines’ from the conference of the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, held at Ulster University, Belfast, on 29–30 November 2024. More on the topic: erskine.glasgow.ac.uk/topics/scots/

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Project ERSKINE at this year's conference of the Scottish Society for Art History, hosted by @natlibscot.bsky.social. More about the artists involved and content related to art, crafts, architecture & aesthetics: erskine.glasgow.ac.uk/topics/art-a...

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#BurnsWeek Over the years, Erskine's Scottish magazines featured a number of pieces concerning Robert Burns, in Gaelic and English, and an image of the poet based on an oil painting owned by Erskine & based on the famous Nasmyth portrait: erskine.glasgow.ac.uk/topics/rober...

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Ruaraidh Erskine was born #OTD 15 January 1869 in Brighton. Project ERSKINE website now offers the opportunity to explore in detail the extensive and diverse corpus of writing Erskine supplied for his own magazines, including a significant body of translations. erskine.glasgow.ac.uk/people/ruara...

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The first issue of the quarterly Guth na Bliadhna came out in Winter 1904. An interactive annotated overview of all the issues (1904-1925), with a growing database of contributors, is now available through the Project ERSKINE website: erskine.glasgow.ac.uk/magazines/gu...

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German scholar Kuno Meyer (1858–1919), born #OTD 20 December, was a major influence on Erskine's periodicals. Meyer lectured in Celtic at @uofglasgow.bsky.social, and translations from and references to his works appeared regularly in the magazines. erskine.glasgow.ac.uk/people/kuno-...

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Donald Sinclair | Dòmhnall Mac na Ceàrdaich, born #OTD 5 December 1885 in Leideag, Barra, was an innovative Gaelic poet, playwright, and prose writer, and one of Erskine's most prolific and loyal collaborators. Discover more about his diverse output: erskine.glasgow.ac.uk/people/donal...

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Malcolm MacFarlane | Calum MacPhàrlain, born #OTD 30 November 1853 in Dalavich, Argyll, was a scholar, author, composer, and Gaelic activist, one of the most prolific contributors to Erskine's Gaelic magazines. Discover more about his contributions: erskine.glasgow.ac.uk/people/malco...

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A paper on 'The Visual Dimension of Ruaraidh Erskine’s Magazines' is going to be part of the conference 'Art & Text', organised by the Scottish Society for Art History in partnership with the National Library of Scotland on 6-7 February 2025. Full programme & tickets: tinyurl.com/39pvffak

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Inspiring time for Project Erskine at 'Unsettling Scottish Studies' conference hosted by Simon Fraser University, Vancouver - a paper on 'Global Gaelic Diaspora and Twentieth-Century Gaelic Magazines' by @poncarova.bsky.social was part of the panel 'Disrupting Spatial Geographies'. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦 🌐

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