Ruairidh McKay | Ruairidh MacAoidh
@rumckay.bsky.social
Expat translator/lecturer | classical guitarist | optimist |GD/EN/DE/ES "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." – E. F. Schumacher
A new paperback edition of Scottish Women: A Documentary History, 1780–1914 is now available from @edinburghup.bsky.social 📚 This collection of sources brings Scottish women’s voices and experiences to life across a variety of themes. Read More 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/08/22/s...
Nochd am pròiseact an-diugh air BBC Naidheachdan agus Aithris na Maidne, le iomradh sònraichte air obair mhòr a rinn an t-Athair Ailean Dòmhnallach agus Eideard Dwelly as leth na Gàidhlig.
Cò a dh'ionnsaich cànanan Ceilteach, carson, 's dè rinn iad leotha?
Bheir pròiseact rannsachaidh ùr sùil air luchd-ionnsachaidh nan cànanan Ceilteach agus a' bhuaidh chultarail a th' air a bhith aca.
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After a long embargo, it is finally out: my ERC Starting Grant #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu has been funded. The 5-year project on creatively active new users of Celtic languages in the 19th and early 20th century starts in Jan 27 at @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz. For news, follow us at @erc-nudgers.bsky.social.
Photo credit: Michal Novotný (UK Forum). Official press release: www.ff.cuni.cz/2026/09/they...
They learnt Celtic languages of their own initiative. Petra Johana Poncarová will be researching their stories thanks to the prestigious ERC Starting Grant | Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy
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Lovely to celebrate the 105th anniversary of the birth of Ruaraidh MacThòmais | Derick Thomson (5 August 1921) with a new publication - the chapter 'MacDiarmid and the Gaelic World: C. M. Grieve, Ruaraidh Erskine and Derick Thomson' has just appeared in the volume 'Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023'.
SCROLL | Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature@scroll-scotlit.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew publication in the SCROLL series! The collective monograph 'Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023: Visions and Revisions', edited by Camille Manfredi, Fiona Paterson, and Philippe Laplace, is now available as an e-book from @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. brill.com/display/titl...
A huge week for women in music 🎶 Cecilia McDowall’s orchestral premiere at Three Choirs, Liza Lim’s “The Oresteia” revived in Sydney, Sarah Hennies’ first large-orchestra work at Cabrillo, and four women composers on BBC Proms programs this week ✨ 🔗 wophil.org/wpa-news-dig... #composer #music
Celebrated Jāņi (midsummer) in Latvia this year! Bonfires and dancing till dawn, flower and oak wreaths, songs about Saule, the sun goddess, that are older than the churches. The Baltics hold a surviving piece of old Europe in living tradition.
Tomorrow, the annual @asls.org.uk conference starts at @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social. I look forward to discussing the work of writers active across Gaelic, Scots, and English, including William Neill | Uilleam Nèill, Roderick Macdonald | Ruaraidh MacDhòmhnaill, and Girvan McKay | Garbhan MacAoidh.
1659 painting by Elisabetta Sirani depicting Timocleia of Thebes pushing the Thracian captain who raped her into a well #womensart
UK suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst was a trained artist and in 1907 created several watercolours depicting women workers in factories, mills and potteries to highlight working women’s rights, their pay and conditions #WomensArt
The ghost of the Cambridge classical scholar Jane Harrison haunts the pages of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own (1929). Here's my post on the layers of connections, for over 30 years, these two writers shared.
The ghost of Jane Harrison
The woman who haunts Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
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Thank you to the @womenshistnet.bsky.social for publishing my piece on Katherine Walker Lindsay, the long-serving secretary of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Society for Women’s Suffrage. I hope that you enjoy reading about Katherine’s life and contribution to the ‘Votes for women’ movement!
Women's History Network@womenshistnet.bsky.social · 7mo agoNew on the blog! @kating03.bsky.social explores the life of Scottish suffragist Katherine Walker Lindsay, piecing together her story through extensive archival research, including newspaper and census records #suffrage #votesforwomen #womenshistory womenshistorynetwork.org/scottish-suf...
#Suffragettes Christabel Pankhurst (a later evangelist) and mother Emmeline (later an anti-Bolshevik and Tory) on the cover of #TheSphere ,25 January 1908. E's daughter #SylviaPankhurst was the "most revolutionary of them all." ( #RachelHolmes , biographer). #Feminism #1stWaveFeminism #feminist
Back this year (2026) in Plemont Bay, #Jersey , where I'm greeted with a sign warning against seagulls in no fewer than three languages (including flawed, yet understandable, German). Why? Well, I know the answer, because pic 2, taken in 2003, shows what happens if you don't supervise your bags.
Kristen C. Howard explores the ethics and practices of exploitation and labour in the digitization of heritage materials and sources.
Who Digitized Your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives
Kristen C. Howard In today’s increasingly online world, historians, researchers, and students want and expect online access to historical documents offered by galleries, libraries, archives, and mu…
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#Vivaldi 's FourSeasons on solo guitar is SLIGHTLY more difficult to play than on the piano.😉 #EmreSabuncuoglu manages to play it in its entirety. #BaroqueMusic #ClassicalGuitar #MusicSky Summer, 3rd mvt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H79...
The Four Seasons, Summer, 3rd mvt, A.Vivaldi (solo classical guitar arrangement by Emre Sabuncuoglu)
YouTube video by Los Angeles Guitar Academy
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A break from the scroll, peeps. You may need a cardiac surgeon, since this rips your heart out, tosses it around the double reeds and violin, stuffs it back in and calls it a day. Gorgeous. Zelenka Sonata III in B-Flat Major, ZWV. 181/3: I. Adagio youtu.be/TCLYOQNHDho?... #ClassicalMusic
Sonata No. 3 in B-Flat Major, ZWV 181/3: I. Adagio
YouTube video by Zéfiro - Topic
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Archiv Frau & Musik shines a light on the ‘rediscovered’ works of Ailsa Dixon @archivfraumusik.bsky.social @crosseyedpianist.bsky.social www.archiv-frau-musik.de/archives/wer...
Werke von Ailsa Dixon (1932–2017) wiederentdeckt!
Verschollen geglaubte Werke der britischen Komponistin Ailsa Dixon als Dachbodenfund wiederentdeckt und herausgegeben!
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Best news I've heard in ages: combining some of the (for me at least) essential features FB was famous for with those of former Twitter, precisely HERE on progressive #Bluesky : www.theverge.com/tech/948215/...
Bluesky is getting ‘communities’
A new way to find people with common interests.
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#RobinaHardy , a once well-known Scottish author, was the sister of Rev Thomas Hardy DD. His sister-in-law Mary Ann Liston was married to my 3rd gt-granduncle, Rev Adam Milroy DD, minister of Moneydie, Perthshire. www.scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to...
La Corbière Lighthouse, #Jersey in May 2026 (low tide; warm weather) and early June, 2026 (windy; high tide).
A small -but symbolic- gesture: Arrivals and Departures displayed in #Brezhoneg #Breton at the ferry terminal in #Sant-Maloù #Saint-Malo #Breizh #CelticLanguages #EndangeredLanguages #CulturalDiversity
Tha mi air mo dhòigh ghlan An Staran fhaicinn air a' gheàrr-liosta airson Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd 2025. | I'm delighted to see An Staran shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize, in the company of Colin Bramwell's Fower Pessoas, as Derick Thomson had a lifelong interest in the Scots language.
