{"title":"On Irish Poets Writing in Scotland","authors":"Peter Mackay","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2023.65.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2023.65.7","url":null,"abstract":": Starting from the polyglot work of the Dublin-born and Skye-based Rody Gorman, who writes in Scottish and Irish Gaelic, English and his own invented translation of “intertonguing,” this essay explores recent poetic connections between the two countries through readings of Irish poets who live or have lived in Scotland: the Gaelic and Irish peregrinations of David Wheatley, and the “minoritized diasporic” position of poets in English such as Alan Gillis, Miriam Gamble, and Aoife Lyall. It discusses ways in which these poets engage with dislocation, linguistic multiplicity, the risks of being absorbed into a new environment, and the possibility of flitting – Sweeney-like – between places, literatures, and trees. It ends with a focus on the diasporic Gaelic writing of Niall O’Gallagher, and how he negotiates his Irish inheritance. There is an unexpected focus on bodybuilding, birds, and moths; on people being transformed into dolphins; and an unregretful Columba cheerily leaving Ireland behind.","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73476634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modernising the Islands: Irish and Scottish Gaelic Fictions","authors":"A. Titley","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2023.65.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2023.65.6","url":null,"abstract":": The islands of Ireland and Scotland are geographically peripheral to the mainlands. Yet they occupy a significant part of both literatures. This may well be because they are perceived as being the least Anglicised, the least dominated by the cultural beasts from the east. For most of the last century this was certainly true. The Irish and Gaelic island literature of both countries was for the most part documentary rather than imaginative during that time. This is not to say that it was not sifted through powerful and individual minds, but just that they did not set forth to invent new or alternative worlds. They are often seen, with a wee little bit and often a dollop of justification, as social documents. As these islands have become as much part of what we call the modern world as anywhere else, writers have been forced to do something else rather than just describe. They had to use their imaginations. This essay examines this journey.","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":"119 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79849660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Cultural Intersections across the Irish Sea","authors":"P. Poncarová, Radvan Markus","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2023.65.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2023.65.1","url":null,"abstract":"A very interesting chapter in the history of international relations would be the narrative of those anciently subsisting between Ireland and Scotland. There exists abundant material for such a compilation; and we are inclined to marvel that no one has yet undertaken it, at least in a formal and connected way. [...] As a nation, we hear little of Ireland; and that which we do hear is obviously “cooked” for our consumption.1","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89696348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Principles and Curses: The Honourable Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar and Some Irish Connections","authors":"Gerard Cairns","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2023.65.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2023.65.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":"130 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73238544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Dáimh le hAlbain?: Depictions of Scotland in Twentieth-Century Irish-Language Prose","authors":"Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2023.65.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2023.65.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82546423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“What Horrors Worse Than These?”: Childhood and Adolescence in Catholic Glasgow","authors":"Christopher Whyte","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2023.65.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2023.65.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72697071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Derick Thomson and Ireland","authors":"P. Poncarová","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2023.65.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2023.65.3","url":null,"abstract":": This essay examines the diverse manifestations of a lifelong interest in Ireland in the work of the Scottish Gaelic poet, scholar, and activist Ruaraidh MacThòmais (Derick Thomson, 1921-2012). It touches upon Thomson’s academic engagement with Irish-related topics and follows his comments on the situation of the Irish language and revitalisation efforts in his “manifesto” essay “The Role of the Writer in a Minority Culture” (1966) and other articles, where it serves as a source of inspiration and a point of contrast. Detailed attention is paid to the generous space which was devoted to Irish affairs and literature in the Gaelic quarterly magazine Gairm which Thomson co-founded and steered for fifty years (1952-2002), including his reviews of Irish-related publications. Drawing on references in Gairm and in Thomson’s poetry collections, the essay also brings together evidence of his personal contacts with Irish writers and intel-lectuals, including Máirtín Ó Direáin, and of his sustained engagement with W.B. Yeats.","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":"187 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85314989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Everybody’s Just Working the Marks, Brother”: A Kayfabe Reading of Social Identity, Performativity and Performative Identity","authors":"R. Gilbert","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2022.64.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2022.64.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82420266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Culture as an Interface and Dialogue","authors":"M. Procházka","doi":"10.14712/2571452x.2022.64.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452x.2022.64.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36301,"journal":{"name":"Litteraria Pragensia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83334112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}