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Assoc for Scottish Literature

An Introduction to Gaelic Storytelling
3 May, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh – £14

Join Gaelic storyteller Martin MacIntyre for an introductory session exploring the history, importance & joy in Gaelic storytelling culture in Scotland. This is a bilingual event in English with some content in Gaelic. No prior knowledge of Scottish Gaelic is required to attend, everyone welcome!

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Walt

Isaac Asimov, a luminary in the genre, passed away on this date in 1992. Asimov was renowned for his extensive contributions to science fiction and popular science writing, with over 500 books to his name. His seminal works include the "Foundation" series and "I, Robot," which introduced the influential Three Laws of Robotics.​
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These three covers of I, Robot by Isaac Asimov show different visual styles and eras of science fiction design. Left Cover: A humanoid robot stands against a red background. Its body is sleek and muscular with rounded joints. White glowing eyes stand out on a dark face. The title “I, ROBOT” appears in bold, dark red letters to the right. “By Isaac Asimov” is at the bottom in black. The background is minimal, with subtle shadows to add depth. Middle Cover: A bulky, dome-shaped robot dominates a beige, dusty landscape. It has multiple arms, antennae, and a cockpit-like window. Tiny human figures in suits surround it, suggesting interaction or inspection. The title appears in two-tone block lettering: “Isaac Asimov” in black and “I, ROBOT” in blue. A tagline above reads, Fascinating Tales from Beyond Tomorrow by the Master of Science Fiction. The design leans toward industrial and functional, evoking mid-century sci-fi themes. Right Cover: A silver humanoid robot with jointed limbs and red eyes stands in front of a city skyline. The robot is posed with arms slightly outstretched. The background is dark with orange-lit buildings, giving a retro-futuristic vibe. The title “I, Robot” appears in a clean white serif font at the top, with “Isaac Asimov” in bold orange at the bottom. A small subtitle reads, “Stories of Science Fiction.” Each cover emphasizes different aspects of Asimov’s vision—mystery, technology, and futurism.
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“As a patterned textile, [tartan] features straight lines, right angles, bright colours, and no ambiguity; as a symbol, its lines become fuzzy, its angles circular, its colours muddied, and its meaning polysemic.”

—Ellen R. Beard, “When Tartan Was Not Fake: The Disclothing Act in Gaelic Song”

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The Bottle Imp · When Tartan Was Not Fake: The Disclothing Act in Gaelic Song - The Bottle ImpTartan is simultaneously a material object, a design template, and a symbol with multiple referents. As a patterned textile, it features straight lines, right angles, bright colours, and no ambiguity; as a symbol, its lines become fuzzy, its angles circular, its colours muddied, and its meaning polysemic (Brown, 9). While this paper addresses the significance […]
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“It has been calculated that the area of tartan cloth made each year is sufficient to cover Edinburgh’s Royal Mile to a depth of six hundred feet, an event which you could be forgiven for thinking has already happened”

—“Tartan Nation: ethnicity & Scotland”

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thebottleimp.org.uk/2011/11/ed

The Bottle Imp · Tartan Nation - The Bottle ImpOnce you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy. — Albert Einstein Tartan is significant. Famously it was banned by the Hanoverian regime, following the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. Later rebels of other sorts have taken to it too, from mohawk’d […]
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“Admiration for Scottish thought did not, for many Americans, extend to admiring, or even liking, the Scots in their midst. Jefferson included a condemnation of ‘Scotch and other foreign mercenaries’ in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence”

—Prof Susan Manning, “Scotland and America”

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thebottleimp.org.uk/2007/05/sc

The Bottle Imp · Scotland and America - The Bottle ImpIn 1781 John Witherspoon coined the word ‘Americanism,’ which he declared to be ‘exactly similar in its formation and signification to the word Scotticism.’ What could he have meant? Since Witherspoon wrote these words – when ‘America’ did not yet exist as a recognised separate nation – there has been no shortage of commentators to […]
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

Your carolan’s blythe, bricht bird i the blackthorn bou,
this braw Voar morn, wi trill eftir spirlan trill,
tho you only ken the warld as it liggs the nou,
an nocht but a glisk concerns your chatteran bill…

—Maurice Lindsay, “On Hearin a Merle Singan (Arbroath Day, April 6th, 1946)”
published in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL, 2017)

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Maurice Lindsay On Hearin a Merle Singan (Arbroath Day, April 6th, 1946) Your carolan’s blythe, bricht bird i the blackthorn bou, this braw Voar morn, wi trill eftir spirlan trill, tho you only ken the warld as it liggs the nou, an nocht but a glisk concerns your chatteran bill. You feel the warm sun kissan your sparklan breist, sea-green it glints as you dirl your feathered thrapple, naithin mindit o things afore or neist wi whilk, on this day o days, I try tae grapple. Tae you, the Simmer’s come, sin the blue-gers glitters, an spinnan-Maggies stoiter aboot the lawn. It micht be sae, sin for days there’s no been a spitter o rain tae sloke the drouth o the yird’s dry pawn. Yet, fegs, the sun’s made you luik gey gilliegawky! Gin ye only kennt, there’s snaw i the heich hills yet. Ye’re no faur-seean, bird, lik the leathern baukie wha although he’s blin’s nae perturbed by the cauld or the het. As I hear you singan, merle, aa the thwartit flames o my luve for Scotland loup i my waefu hert, an six-hunnert-years-auld bluid reenges roun my veins till my stangit heid’s agley wi an orra smert ... But maist folk in Scotland noo hae the baukie’s een, caran for nocht that isnae smoorit in derk: an tho they wad praise your sang for its happy shein, at the thocht o the snaw i the hills their sauls aye lerk!
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Project Gutenberg

The American cultural boom a century on: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos and Louis Armstrong

1925 was a remarkable year for the American novel as great titles renewed the art of storytelling and had the power to influence upcoming writers for decades to come

By Eduardo Lago

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1937 Carl Van Vechten - Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald#/media/File:Francis_Scott_Fitzgerald_1937_June_4_(2)_(photo_by_Carl_van_Vechten).jpg
Portrait of Gertrude Stein, with American flag as backdrop. Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1935 Carl Van Vechten - Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein#/media/File:Gertrude_Stein_1935-01-04.jpg
Hemingway posing for a dust jacket photo by Lloyd Arnold for the first edition of "For Whom the Bell Tolls", at the Sun Valley Lodge, Idaho, late 1939. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway#/media/File:ErnestHemingway.jpg
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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

University of Galway: University launches digitised archive of Threshold. “A new digital archive of Threshold, one of Northern Ireland’s longest-running literary periodicals of the 20th century, has been digitised and made available online from University of Galway Library Archives. The new digital archive includes more than 3,000 pages of all published issues of the journal, including […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/06/university-of-galway-university-launches-digitised-archive-of-threshold/

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