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 | 109 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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Animal/Class Exploitation and Aspirations of Freedom
Originally written in 2020, updated in 2026
One of the many folktales collected in the mid-nineteenth century by the team of fieldworkers coordinated by John Francis Campbell is called Am Peata Bàn “The White Pet.” It can be found i...
Forging Fenian Fragments Anew
Duan na Ceardaich (“The Lay of the Smithy”) is one of the medieval ballads recounting the deeds and adventures of the Fianna, the warrior band of Fionn mac Cumhaill. It is a poem that is strange, eldritch, bloody, and gritty, and is not ver...
The Ballad of Diarmaid and the Wild Boar in Glenshee
Originally written in 2017, updated in 2026
The “Fenian/Ossianic Cycle” of Gaelic literature is undoubtedly the greatest living legacy of medieval Gaeldom, one to which Scotland made important creative contributions alongside Irish...
Gaeldom as a Model of Sustainable Living
The world is in the midst of an ecological crisis but it is misleading to frame it merely as a technological problem that will be solved by science and technology: it is, instead, a profoundly cultural and spiritual crisis. Indeed, it is th...
Interview with Dr A. R. MacKinnon about Gaelic in Bruce County
Originally written in 2018
The Charles William Dunn Collection of Scottish Gaelic Fieldwork Recordings from Gaelic Canada contains an extensive and invaluable set of audio recordings from the mid-twentieth century. Although most of...
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