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Writer Janet Paisley will be giving a series of talks and readings from her new historical novel 'White Rose Rebel' which is Waterstone's Scottish Book of the Month and number 6 in their Scottish best-seller …
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A senior academic from Aberdeen University's Department of English has said the head of a right wing education group is talking "havers". Derrick McClure hit out at Nick Seaton after the York …
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Plans to establish an Ulster Scots Academy have been put out for consultation. The consultation will last for 12 weeks and will include an "equality impact assessment exercise". The consultation …
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Culture Minister, Linda Fabiani MSP, has indicated that she would consider commissioning a report in to the state of the Scots language. In response to a question form Rob Gibson MSP at a meeting of the …
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The Friends of Wighton have organised a Cappuccino Concert in Maryatt Hall, Dundee for Saturday 23 June 2007. Doors open for coffee and newspapers at 10.30am and Palavar - consisting of Aileen Carr, Barbara …
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Greet is Old English in origin, and makes its dt in Scotland in the late fourteenth century, in John Barbour's The Bruce, one of the earliest known pieces of Scots poetry. Here we read: "Men mycht haiff …
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Barred. Dae ye ken that wurd? Barred? It widnae be the furst time that wan o ma boys wis barred. They're ayeweys gettin barred fae thir local. Bit barred? Rabbie Burns, oor National barred? The telly …
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Noo lyart leaves blaw ower the green,Red are the bonny woods o' Dean,An' here we're back in Embro, frien':To pass the winter.Whilk noo, wi' frosts afore, draws in,An' snaws ahint …
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Reports from Northern Ireland suggest that the new government there is still unceratin about how best to support the territory's indigenous languages. Culture Minister, Edwin Poots (DUP), is believed …
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First Minister, Alex Salmond, has appointed Central Scotland list MSP, Linda Fabiani as the new government's Minister for Europe, External Affairs and Culture. Fabiani was first elected to the Scottish …