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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| Issues | 102 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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COP26 in Scotland
Originally written on 18 October 2021
On Samhain (31st October), Glasgow will become the host for the UN Climate Change Conference. Our ecological crisis has never stared us so clearly and cruelly in the face, and there has never be...
Dùthchas: An Archaic Gaelic Term Gets New Attention
The Gaelic term dùthchas has received growing attention in the last few years, especially since 2020, fueled by different factors such as the contention over land ownership in the Highlands, the environmental crisis, and the need to ground...
The Gaelic Variant of the Frog Prince Folktale
Originally written in 2022, updated in 2026.
I worked with my daughter Róisín for several years to help her learn Gaelic folktales by heart that she recited in the annual storytelling competition of the North American Gaelic Mòd run...
Anti-Racism and Anti-Colonialism in America through a Gaelic lens
I was a member of an organization that I co-founded in 2016 named GaelicUSA whose mission was to advocate for support for Scottish Gaelic Studies in North American academia. A number of essays were written, and interviews conducted, in orde...
Alexander Fraser courting the Welsh of Toronto
Originally written in 2017
I have written four previous blog posts about Alexander Fraser (Alasdair Friseal in his native tongue), the first archivist of Ontario (see this post, for example).
My friend and fellow Celtic scholar Rob...
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