An essay on the hunting cult and healing the land, on Bella Caledonia. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/09/29/b...
Bùirich
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…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
An Eighteenth-Century Poem In Praise of Gaelic by Iain MacGriogair of Glenlyon, Perthshire gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/an-eightee...
An Eighteenth-Century Poem In Praise of Gaelic
By Iain MacGriogair of Glenlyon, Perthshire
gaelicmichael.substack.com
The @irishexaminer.bsky.social had an article by me about the new edition of Nauigatio St Brendani on the weekend.
Og(h)am of the day: Taoiseach Mícheál Martin exchanged ogham version of their names with the Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani.
Trump is preparing to impose “sweeping sanctions” on the International Criminal Court, WSJ reports. Nothing says “we are international criminals” more.
Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.
“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,” says acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. “That’s what music is for."
“Hope Is the Thing with Feathers”: Rhiannon Giddens on New Album, AI, Ed Sheeran, Macklemore & Trump
“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. … ...
democracynow.org
Angus J. Macdonald: Radical Gaelic Voice - Understanding the motives of a bearer and forger of tradition gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/angus-j-ma...
Angus J. Macdonald: Radical Gaelic Voice
Understanding the motives of a bearer and forger of tradition
gaelicmichael.substack.com
Sail to Quebec, Lochaber Warriors! A Highland song-poem of emigration c.1802 gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/sail-to-qu...
Sail to Quebec, Lochaber Warriors!
A Highland song-poem of emigration c.1802
gaelicmichael.substack.com
Word of Mouth: Gaelic Currently on BBC Sounds: Michael Rosen in conversation with Roddy Maclean about Gaelic in Scotland. Michael learns that Gaelic has no single word for Yes or No & that the landscape of the Highlands can be better understood through Gaelic placenames www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Word of Mouth - Gaelic - BBC Sounds
Gaelic in Scotland with writer and broadcaster Roddy Maclean talking to Michael Rosen.
bbc.co.uk
An excellent blog with many interesting ideas for all of us thinking about what 'became' of the Picts and their language.
Clare Downham@downham.bsky.social · last mo.Viking-Pictish interactions in the Northern Isles by Prof Andrew Jennings #scotland #medievalsky www.vikingislands.co.uk/p/before-the...
Gaelic Perceptions of Ethnicity and Color Codes: Contrasting “traditional” and racialized concepts of ethnicity and race in the Gaelic world gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/gaelic-per...
Gaelic Perceptions of Ethnicity and Color Codes
Contrasting “traditional” and racialized concepts of ethnicity and race in the Gaelic world
gaelicmichael.substack.com
Congress and Trump stripped away federal protections for the Boundary Waters. Walz just threw up a massive state-level roadblock in their way. Thank you, Gov. Walz, for fighting to protect one of America’s most incredible wild places!
Gov. Tim Walz signs executive order banning nonferrous mining near Boundary Waters • Minnesota Reformer
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...
minnesotareformer.com
The Gaelic College that could have been (Part 2): Aonghus MacDhonnchaidh’s vision for a Gaelic university in Scotland gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/the-gaelic...
The Gaelic College that could have been (Part 2)
Aonghus MacDhonnchaidh’s vision for a Gaelic university in Scotland
gaelicmichael.substack.com
Sluagh gun ghuth – ‘A people without a voice’: Reconstructing the past in a West Highland community. Prof Hugh Cheape. Saturday 12 Sept 2026, 14:00 - 15:00, RSE Edinburgh. #gaelic #LocalHistory #skystorians #Curious #Scotland rse.org.uk/event/sluagh...
Sluagh gun ghuth – ‘A people without a voice’: Reconstructing the past in a West Highland community
Discover the story of a West Highland community through the objects they left behind.
rse.org.uk
Movements can still find people on social media. But the real organizing has to happen somewhere else — and getting people there is the part we keep skipping.
It’s time for movements to rethink social media
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.
wagingnonviolence.org
Loss, Grief, and Re-/Creating Traditions for an Uncertain Future: Approaching Gaelic traditions of keening and lamentation gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/loss-grief...
Loss, Grief, and Re-/Creating Traditions for an Uncertain Future
Approaching Gaelic traditions of keening and lamentation
gaelicmichael.substack.com
This should be getting FAR more attention. An American oil company with ties to Trump’s orbit is moving forward with plans to drill for oil in Greenland. Some drilling-related equipment has already been brought ashore even though Greenland says the necessary approvals have NOT been granted.
What Would Scottish Gaelic Studies in the US Look Like? Envisioning the development of a long-neglected field of scholarship gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/what-would...
What Would Scottish Gaelic Studies in the US Look Like?
Envisioning the development of a long-neglected field of scholarship
gaelicmichael.substack.com
Pope Leo in Assisi: “Rejecting the culture of power and building a civilization of love are choices that are not immediately understood or accepted. Saint Francis, however, teaches that radicalism of the Gospel is the very opposite of fundamentalism.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Forging Fenian Fragments Anew: Reflections about creative retellings of Gaelic folktales gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/forging-fe...
Forging Fenian Fragments Anew
Reflections about creative retellings of Gaelic folktales
gaelicmichael.substack.com
Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.
History shows that authoritarian governments rarely begin by shutting down the press overnight. Instead, they pressure news organizations, reward favorable coverage, discourage criticism, and normalize political messaging in place of independent reporting. Over time, journalists
The Ballad of Diarmaid and the Wild Boar in Glenshee: One of the literary masterpieces of Gaelic Scotland, set in Eastern Perthshire gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/the-ballad...
The Ballad of Diarmaid and the Wild Boar in Glenshee
One of the literary masterpieces of Gaelic Scotland, set in Eastern Perthshire
gaelicmichael.substack.com
This should concern anyone who believes our courts should make decisions based on evidence instead of politics. Federal judges use technical reference manuals to better understand complicated subjects that come up in court, including engineering, medicine, cybersecurity, and climate science.
Gaeldom as a Model of Sustainable Living: Creating a sustainable future entails rebuilding community and the cultural values and practices that sustain it gaelicmichael.substack.com/p/gaeldom-as...
Gaeldom as a Model of Sustainable Living
Creating a sustainable future entails rebuilding community and the cultural values and practices that sustain it
gaelicmichael.substack.com
I have very bad luck with backing video games on kickstarter, but sometimes i just can't help myself. It looks lovely, and sincere. @caraellison.bsky.social @davidstifter.bsky.social @darach.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/rat...
Bibdu - Irish Mythology RPG
Hand-painted RPG set in Ancient Ireland where you unravel myths and legends through open world exploration and strategic card battles.
kickstarter.com
ICE is rapidly expanding its surveillance capabilities. The agency has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on vehicles equipped to support cell-site simulators, also known as fake cellphone towers.
