Gaelic Oral Tradition Has Preserved the “Art of a Nation”

Reflections on hunting and the Scottish psyche. ‘The Cone Gatherers’, performed by Communicado at Tramway in 1991, was one of my earliest and most affecting theatrical experiences. It was performed…

By Iain MacGriogair of Glenlyon, Perthshire

“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,” says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. “That’s what music is for. … ...

Understanding the motives of a bearer and forger of tradition

A Highland song-poem of emigration c.1802

Gaelic in Scotland with writer and broadcaster Roddy Maclean talking to Michael Rosen.

Contrasting “traditional” and racialized concepts of ethnicity and race in the Gaelic world

No Democrat will reverse it,Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order Tuesday banning nonferrous mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in what may prove to be one of the most significant...

Muirbretha, the “sea-judgements,” is the main surviving Brehon law text on maritime affairs, and it survives only because a handful of scribes thought it worth copying fragments of it into other colle...

Aonghus MacDhonnchaidh’s vision for a Gaelic university in Scotland

Discover the story of a West Highland community through the objects they left behind.

Movements can still find people on social media. But the real organizing has to happen somewhere else — and that's the part we keep skipping.

Approaching Gaelic traditions of keening and lamentation

Envisioning the development of a long-neglected field of scholarship

Reflections about creative retellings of Gaelic folktales

One of the literary masterpieces of Gaelic Scotland, set in Eastern Perthshire

Creating a sustainable future entails rebuilding community and the cultural values and practices that sustain it

Hand-painted RPG set in Ancient Ireland where you unravel myths and legends through open world exploration and strategic card battles.

Trump called America "the crowning achievement of human history" and declared "Our destiny is written by God," during his keynote remarks.

Memories of a Gaelic-speaking immigrant community in Ontario, Canada

Cape Breton's Diversity in Unity

There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.

The imperial facades that erase distinct ethnic identities and voices in the British Isles

Eóghann MacColla’s Gaelic traditions in the Alexander Fraser papers in the Ontario Archive

Scottish reactions to the challenges of a more just and sustainable way of life and being in the world