An-diugh tha Dtr. Donnchadh Sneddon (Ceiltis agus Eòlas na h-Alba) agus Ciorstag Stiùbhart (@ Gatsroic) (Cruinneachaidhean Rannsachaidh) ag òrdachadh searmonan agus pàipearan eile leis a' bhàrd spioradail agus ministear Baisteach, Pàraig Grannd nan Òran (1783 – 1867).
Today Dr. Duncan Sneddon of Celtic and Scottish Studies and Kirsty Stewart of the Centre for Research Collections are working on cataloguing sermon notes and other papers by the 19th century Baptist minister and Gaelic poet Pàraig Grannd nan Òran. @scottish.studies.archives
Bha sinn toilichte fàilte a thoirt air oileanaich bho Oilthigh na Banrighinn ann am Beul Feirste, a thàinig airson dà latha ann an Dùn Èideann. Chaidh còignear bhon oilthigh againn thall a Bheul Feirste o chionn greiseag cuideachd. Chaidh sinn dhan Taigh-tasgaidh Nàiseanta agus do Phàrlamaid na h-Alba an-dè, agus fhuair iar cuairt timcheall air an oilthighe an-diugh - a' bruidhinn ann an Gàidhlig is Gaeilge fad na tìde.
Slán abhaile, a chairde!
With nominations now closed for the EUSA Teaching Awards, I make that twelve nominations for Celtic and Scottish Studies! These include Outstanding Course nominations for Introduction to Gaelic Language and Culture, Celtic Civilisation 1A: Barbarians, Saints and Scholars and Heroes, Wonders, Saints and Sagas: Medieval Celtic Literature in Translation; Teacher of the Year nominations for Willow Mullins, Lori Watson, Rob Dunbar, Kaye McAlpine and Duncan Sneddon and a Cohort Lead of the Year nomination for Duncan Sneddon.
Thanks very much to our students for these nominations, it's lovely to have this recognition for the work the work we put in and the passion we have for our subjects.
.
Yesterday was the last Old Irish class, so here was a wee minding for students - an Old Irish poem written out imitation vellum for them to keep as a memento. They should be able to read them now!
.
The 2026 McGill University Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies Colloquium will take place on April 10, 2026. The keynote address will be delivered by our own Rob Dunbar, Chair of Celtic Languages, Literature, History, and Antiquities at The University of Edinburgh and Chair of Bòrd na Gàidhlig. The event is going to be livestreamed: /3x8c6ry5 🏴
Our final online research seminar of this academic year will be on Friday the 27th of March, 13:00 (for 13:15) - 14:00. It will be given by Dr. Hugh Hagan, on the subject, "A Shipwright Looks at the Archive".
Born in Port Glasgow on the Clyde, Dr Hagan retired recently from a senior post in the National Records of Scotland. But he began his working life as a shipwright in the shipyards of The Port.
He came to the University of Edinburgh as a mature student and studied for an MA (Hons) degree in Scottish Ethnology and Scottish History. He then did a PhD on the lives of women in the shipbuilding communities of the West of Scotland between the two World Wars.
In retirement, Dr Hagan is picking of the threads of his earlier activities in oral history work. In this presentation, he will reflect on the place of the urban and industrial material in the School of Scottish Studies Archive collections in the curation of these aspects of Scottish life
Joining details here: /celtic-scottish-studies/css-seminar-series-260327
.
We're delighted to join our friends and colleagues this Thursday in History in welcoming Prof. Fiona Edmonds to deliver this year's John Bannerman Lecture, on the subject of "Dál Riata and Northumbria, c. 700‒1000: Connections and comparisons".
It will take place on Thursday 26th of March, 17:15 - 18:30 in 40 George Square, Lecture Theatre C and will also be available to watch online.
Further details and registration information here:
/john-bannerman-lecture-professor-fiona-edmonds
Vol. 42 of Scottish Studies, published now, is a Festschrift for our esteemed colleague Dr John Shaw. It is available online now at /ScottishStudies
Print copies will be available in due course, and we will be arranging a launch party here in Edinburgh sometime in the next few months at which copies will be available for collection. We very much hope that many of you will want to attend what I'm sure will be a lively celebration of John's enormous contribution to our field.
John and Prof. Rob Dunbar look pleased with their copies!
Another EUSA Teaching Awards nomination for Celtic and Scottish Studies: Duncan Sneddon has been nominated for Cohort Lead of the Year.
We have a great relationship with our students in Celtic and Scottish Studies, and it's so gratifying to see that recognised.
Congratulations to Daithí Knowles who passed his viva for his dissertation on socio-historical and linguistic aspects of Achill Irish, pictured here with his supervisors (Peadar and Pavel), and the external examiner Prof Mícheál Ó Mainnín (QUB). Thanks also to Prof Warren Maguire (Edinburgh) for acting as internal examiner.
Scottish Society for Northern Studies Seminar – All in a Day’s Work: Memories of working life captured in Scottish Ethnography.
Tuesday 24th March 2026, 19:00
The seminar marks the coming together of two previous Regional Ethnology of Scotland Archive Project Internships. Katie Shepherd will be delivering a talk on All In A Day’s Work, the memories booklet she created alongside Ailsa Dixon during her 6 month Internship in 2024/2025 and the event is organised by Rebekah Day-Wood, 2023-2024 Exhibitions Intern, and creator of the on-line exhibition, ‘Animal Encounters in the RESP Archive’.
.uk/events/ssns-seminar-all-in-a-days-work-memories-of-working-life-captured-in-scottish-ethnography
