The Virtual Gael
Michael NewtonScholarship and commentary on Scottish Gaeldom in Scotland and the North American diaspora
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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Expressing Bodily States in Gaelic
Every language can have its own way of representing and expressing “the world” (as well as things that do not have physical form, things that could be argued to only exist in the imagination). One of the challenges of learning a new languag...
Healing Intercultural Wounds: A Gaelic Perspective
I wrote the following talk and delivered it today at the Unity Center of Peace in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 2014. Both of the stories used in my message can be found (among other materials) in my volume Warriors of the Word: The World...
The Tragedy of Deirdre and Gaelic Oral Tradition
In my last blog post, I examined a beautiful pìobaireachd song that imitates the swan which was recorded from the celebrated bagpiper and tradition-bearer Calum Aonghais Chaluim (Calum Johnston) of Barra. What might seem to be a solitary fr...
Examining Fragments of The Swan’s Song
Originally written in 2020, updated in 2026.
The celebrated Gaelic musician Julie Fowlis released a video in 2020 in which she sings “Port na h-Eala (The Swan’s Tune / Song),” accompanied by the harmonium. She brought new attention...
An Eighteenth-Century Poem In Praise of Gaelic
Originally written in 2018, updated in 2026
This is the third of a sequence of blog posts putting a spotlight on the fabulous treasures of Gaelic literature that were created by Perthshire Gaels.
One of the most important poets of...
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