Gairm Phàipearan Co-Labhairt | Call For Conference Papers: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 14−16 July 2026 www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...

Ahhh Project Fear beginning already re departitioning of Ireland! V similar to the fearmongering that appearing around Scotland’s indyref - but strangely it was not as pronounced with Brexit, despite conflation - the status quo’s response to progressive change. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Went to see Dylan in Killarney last night and visited the Torc Waterfall on the way back to Limerick 💯

We can't wait for Winter Graduation in St Andrews next Tuesday and Wednesday. 🎓 🙌 Find out everything you need to know, from when the ceremonies are taking place to how to watch online ⬇️ https://ow.ly/xTII50XwOkX #EverToExcel #ForeverSaints

Come along to our virtual postgraduate open week from 24 to 28 November to learn about: 🎓 Schools and programmes 🫶 Student life 🏠 Accommodation 📝Application process 💷 Fees, funding and scholarships https://ow.ly/4s3950XwRtk #EverToExcel

Well done that student. I hope this rebellion spreads. University managements are hell-bent on stripping out experts to save money, and students deserve better. However awful my lectures are, they’re 100% organic. www.theguardian.com/technology/v...

A reminder that this year's Canna Lecture will take place on tomorrow evening (Friday) in Edinburgh! Bidh an Dr Màrtainn MacGriogair a-mach air bàrdachd agus eachdraidh nan Gàidheal anns an 19mh linn. llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...

People in Scotland want an asylum system that is controlled, that they have confidence in, and that shows compassion. The Home Secretary’s proposals do none of these things. We need a humane, effective and efficient system 🧡 Read our full response: ow.ly/Er6w50Xublv

Sradagan san Iarmailt / Sparks in the Firmament⁠ Ginealach Ùr Bhàrd Gàidhealach / A New Generation of Gaelic Poets⁠ Edited by Marcas Mac an Tuairneir⁠ ⁠ This wide-ranging anthology showcases the talented cohort of Gaelic poets who have come to prominence since the turn of the millennium⁠. ⁠ #Gaelic

I am delighted that my essay on Ossianic images, theories of the Earth, & modern ideas on air pollution—as exemplified by Turner’s & Carus’s depictions of Staffa—has been published in "Picturing the Romantic" @manchesterup.bsky.social. #HybridRomanticism #VisualTranslations #EcocritcalArtHistory

My review of ‘Colin Davidson: Twelve Paintings – Conversations with Mark Carruthers’ from the weekend. A deep and beautiful book, and the paintings of Belfast are masterly. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I've joined Substack! open.substack.com/pub/brianlim...

The St  Andrews Chronicles, one of the most important manuscript histories of Scotland, is going on public display for the first time in its 500-year history. The book will be on display at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social from 21 November to 7 December #BookHistory news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...

RALLY TOMORROW! Join the fightback against job cuts! Wednesday 19th November at 1pm at the Scottish parliament.

Question from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...

Yet again the honest folk of the Cotswolds and other lightly-populated places the rich live are denied the opportunity to work with dangerous materials. Such things are for Northerners and the Celtic fringe.

In a week's time, please join us for the next @iassl.bsky.social webinar celebrating the legacy of Fionnlagh Iain MacDhòmhnaill | Finlay J. Macdonald (1925–1987), held to mark the centenary of his birth. Tuesday 25 November, 7 pm UK time, on ZOOM. Bidh fàilte bhlàth romhaibh uile / All welcome!

#Edinburgh colleagues, remember to contact your MSPs and MP to make them aware of the vandalism senior management are threatening at UoE through compulsory redundancies! #UKHE

Vote Labour

EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish university has been accused of 'losing the plot' as bosses threaten staff and students with disciplinary action in the event of protests at graduation ceremonies this winter

Gaelic Futurisms Launching 21 Nov, Glasgow – free A multimedia contemporary art exhibition examining the endangerment of Gaelic language as a collective loss of shared knowledge, heritage, & culture, echoed throughout all people who have lost their native tongues www.eventbrite.com/e/gaelic-fut...

Joyce would have loved this www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!

Scotland never win when I’m watching

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘The Great Famine remains a decisive turning point in Irish history. It came to be seen not merely as a natural disaster, but as a political event – a symbol of colonial exploitation and neglect.’ Niamh Gallagher: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries! UCC 19 February Boston College 11 March NYU Glucksman House 12 March Royal Irish Academy 25 March www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...

Our students aren’t being heard. “students aren't told anything at all." "You really have to dig for all the information - online, on the website, through emails... unless you have the time to sit and dig through emails, you don't know what's going on," she says. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Now available for pre-order: W. B. Yeats’s Rapallo Notebooks (IYS 9.2, 2025). This special print edition guides readers through the Rapallo Notebooks as both artifacts and reflections of Yeats’s creative process. See the attached flier for details! Additional information coming soon.

📣 REMINDER – Thursday The National 1798 Rebellion Centre and UCD Press are pleased to invite you to celebrate Bloody Summer: A New History of the 1798 Rebellion ⏰ 6pm, Thur, 13 Nov 📍 The National 1798 Rebellion Centre, Enniscorthy Guest Speaker: Kevin Whelan ALL WELCOME RSVP [email protected]

Call for Papers: 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Scotland Along the New Silk Road (17-20 June 2027, Nanjing Normal University, China). Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2026.

Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. sites.google.com/view/irsconf...

Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. @iassl.bsky.social @asls.org.uk sites.google.com/view/irsconf...

'Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival' is now available for pre-order from @edinburghup.bsky.social in paperback and with a 30% discount with the code PAPER30. Coming in December! 🎁

Missed it the first time? Good news — the event below has been rescheduled for Thursday 13 November! You can still register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-who-...

Very useful starting point: here's my slide for the Research Methods class:

Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street

We are co-hosting on 3 Dec. a conference on 'From Boundary Commission to Border Poll? A Century of the Irish Border'. This is a free event, but registration is required (by 26 Nov.). Info at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

You don’t have to mourn war criminals. You don’t have to issue condolences to their families. You don’t have to launder their legacies. Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.

The book isn’t out until January in Ireland and March in the States, but if you’d like a copy eventually here is the pre-order discount code. I’ll share it again and have some launches planned in Bellaghy, Belfast and Dublin for late Feb/ early March. Do come along, I’d be glad to see you.

We're delighted to announce that, after a very successful first year, RIISS will be hosting a further New Voices ECR Visiting Fellow in 2026. Applications are open until 5th December 2025. www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...

🌄 Scotland’s landscapes are layered with history — from Gaelic medieval society to Romanticism and militarism. Join Prof Aonghus MacKechnie for If a landscape “speaks”, can we hear it? 📆 Mon 10 Nov, 6:30pm 📍 Edinburgh + Zoom 🎟 £6 / £2 students – book: buff.ly/6ZepKtJ

Another @erskineproject.bsky.social article is out: 'The Visual Dimension of Ruaraidh Erskine's Scottish Magazines'! It is a rare pleasure to be part of such a lavish and carefully curated publication, and I am grateful to the SSAH ssah.org.uk for the possibility to contribute to their journal.

The recording of the 13th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion is now available on our YouTube channel! Rewatch this brilliant workshop on Celibacy in Irish Women Writing at youtu.be/c2rNcLC3_q8?...

The deadline for the joint BAMS/ MSA conference is fast approaching! It's exactly one month away on December 1, 2025. Please note it's the same deadline for panels, papers, roundtables, and workshop/ seminar proposals. You can propose in-person or online panels/ roundtables (but not hybrids).

as a smaller, digital-only journal that is diamond open access and charges no author-processing fees (thanks @openlibhums.org!), we can promise that we will be able to make a decision about your submission much faster than traditional print journals.