Long-standing Irish place names hark back to a world alive with cranes, wolves and eagles. Now these old names are piquing the interest of nature-lovers and ecologists.

The Scots Language Awards will be on Saturday 19th September in Dundee. Nominate using the form below or click here. Nominations will end Sunday 9th August at midnight. Create your own user feedbac…

"Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023" published on 04 Aug 2026 by Brill.

I would like to thank The Bottle Imp for inviting me to reflect on my work as a translator of both French and Scots. In this article — the first I have written on this topic — I outline a few ideas re...

This article re-evaluates Robert Burns’s ‘To a Haggis’—arguably, the most globally recited food poem in world literature—by situating it within a long-overlooked tradition of Scottish food patriotism....

Edited by Colin McIlroy and Paul Malgrati Paperback, 504 pages Association for Scottish Literature, May 2026 Price: £14.95 ISBN: 9781906841676 Order from our bookshop “If you don’t go you can’t come…