This week at the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies we hosted our last event of the academic year. At the event, some of the editors and contributors to Galloway: The Lost Province of Gaelic Scotland, an important recent volume on the extent and nature of Gaelic in Galloway, discussed the book’s main arguments and… Continue reading →
This week at the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies, we were treated to a wonderful talk entitled X by Dr Fangzhe Qiu, assistant professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore at University College Dublin. Dr Qiu is the the principal investigator of the ERC-funded project ‘Fluid texts… Continue reading →
Dr Kenny Brophy’s paper centred around an ongoing project being carried out by himself, Lex Lamb and Gordon Barr on the archaeology of the Glasgow Garden Festival (1988). The Festival took place on what was then post-industrial wasteland on the south bank of the Clyde in Govan. Brophy, introduced by Dr Andrew MacKillop, is a… Continue reading →
On the 31st of January, the Centre was delighted to host Alexander Linklater to deliver a paper on Hugh MacDiarmid, the pen name of, or perhaps more appropriately, as Linklater argued, the character created and played by Christopher Murray Grieve. Linklater is a journalist and editor who has worked across a wealth of publications, including… Continue reading →
On 17th January 2023, Dr Rebecca Mason gave a paper to the Centre entitled: ‘Coercion or consent? Property and women’s legal agency in early modern Scotland’. Introduced to the in-person and online attendees by Professor Karin Bowie, Mason is a former University of Glasgow Centre for Gender History PhD student who is currently on a… Continue reading →
This week at the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies seminar, we were treated to a variety of poetry readings by Rody Gorman. Gorman is the editor of the Irish and Scottish poetry anthology An Guth, and has been a fellow at University College Cork, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig in Skye and An Lanntair in Lewis.… Continue reading →
On the 18th of October, the Centre was delighted to host our very own Dr Craig Lamont, the new Lecturer in Scottish Studies at the University of Glasgow, who delivered a hybrid webinar entitled ‘Editing Scottish Texts: from Ramsay to Haynes’. Graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, Lamont has a background in Creative… Continue reading →
On Tuesday 11th of October, the Centre of Scottish and Celtic Studies hosted its first seminar of the semester, led by its own Professor of Historical Archaeology, Stephen Driscoll. Prof. Driscoll’s research interests centre around the Early Medieval Celtic world, with a particular focus on the Early Historic period in Scotland. He has undertaken numerous… Continue reading →
Blog author: Emily Hay On 9th November, the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies was delighted to welcome Kevin Gallagher to present a webinar titled ‘The Poet, the Unprincipled prostitute and the Perjured Blockhead: Robert Burns’s response to the French Revolution, and how it was edited in the nineteenth century’. Dr Pauline Mackay, from the… Continue reading →
Blog author: David Bain Former Liverpool FC football manager Bill Shankly is once famously reputed to have said, ‘Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.’ That same sentiment could equally apply to Ged O’Brien. Ged… Continue reading →
