Fiona Grahame Orkney News LtdFeb 25
Support for the Orcadian language is just one of the key areas of focus in the second Islands Plan published by the Scottish Government. Community Wealth Building – strengthening the local Orkney economy – is a central feature of the revised Plan.
“Islanders have told us clearly what they need to pursue their ambitions" - First Minister John Swinney https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/02/25/islanders-have-told-us-clearly-what-they-need-to-pursue-their-ambitions-first-minister-john-swinney/ #CommunityWealthBuilding, #IslandsPlan, #News, #Orcadian, #ScottishGovernment
“Islanders have told us clearly what they need to pursue their ambitions” – First Minister John Swinney

Support for the Orcadian language is just one of the key areas of focus in the second Islands Plan published by the Scottish Government. Community Wealth Building – strengthening the local Or…

The Orkney News
The Orkney NewsFeb 25

“Islanders have told us clearly what they need to pursue their ambitions” – First Minister John Swinney

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/02/25/islanders-have-told-us-clearly-what-they-need-to-pursue-their-ambitions-first-minister-john-swinney/

Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureFeb 20

“Just as, after reading Heinlein, a door is no longer quite the same thing, so, after reading DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA, a dialect is no longer quite the same thing either”

—Cat Fitzpatrick reviews Harry Josephine Giles’s DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA for @StrangeHorizons

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/deep-wheel-orcadia-by-harry-josephine-giles/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #poetry #sciencefiction #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage

Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles

At the same time, I want to argue, what is really electrifying about it is the way it does something distinctly science-fictional, not only at the levels of worldbuilding and plot, but at the level…

Strange Horizons
Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureFeb 20

In 2019, Harry Josephine Gilesl’s science-fiction verse novel DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA was a work-in-progress, & we were delighted to feature an extract. Published in 2021, DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year

7/8

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-new-orkney-language-literature-an-excerpt-from-deep-wheel-orcadia-a-future-fantasy/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #sciencefiction #poetry #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage

The New Orkney Language Literature - an excerpt from 'Deep Wheel Orcadia: a Future Fantasy' - The Bottle Imp

“Space station V morning” by Les Chatfield is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Deep Wheel Orcadia is a space station orbiting a gas giant, a few hundred years in the future and a few light years from Earth. Astrid was born there, and has returned after studying at art school on Mars. Darling, from a […]

The Bottle Imp
Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureFeb 20

The New Orkney Language Literature

Harry Josephine Giles looks at

“the minoritisation of the language, perpetuated not just through literary snobbery but also through an education system that beat out Orcadian with physical force”

& a literary rebirth

6/8

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-new-orkney-language-literature/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage

The New Orkney Language Literature - The Bottle Imp

“Orkney Library and Archive, Kirkwall” by summonedbyfells is licensed under CC BY 2.0 For a small place, Orkney has produced an extraordinary literature. Simon W. Hall’s 2010 study, The History of Orkney Literature, which won the Saltire Society First Book Award that year, drew a magisterial line from the sagas through modernism to the contemporary […]

The Bottle Imp
Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureFeb 20

Persistence of Vision: Blue Black Permanent

“For Tait, making the bigger picture… didn’t mean compromising the poetry. For her, cinema itself was essentially a poetic medium”

– Sarah Neely on the enduring legacy of Margaret Tait’s life & work

5/8

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/persistence-of-vision-blue-black-permanent-and-the-enduring-legacy-of-margaret-taits-life-and-work/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #filmmaking #cinema #20thcentury

Persistence of Vision: 'Blue Black Permanent' and the enduring legacy of Margaret Tait’s life and work - The Bottle Imp

This year marks the centenary of the Orcadian filmmaker and poet, Margaret Tait, who was born on Armistice Day, November the 11th, 1918.  During her lifetime, Tait produced over thirty short films, self-published three volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories, and became Scotland’s first female feature filmmaker with the release of Blue Black […]

The Bottle Imp
Assoc for Scottish LiteratureFeb 20

When Christian I of Norway failed to pay a dowry for his daughter Margaret, queen to James III, #Orkney & #Shetland were annexed by the Scottish crown #OTD, 20 Feb, 1472

NORTHERN-NESS looks at literature from the northern isles, from the sagas to the far future

1/8

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/northern-ness/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #Norse

Northern-ness - The Bottle Imp

Much of what is good and true in our laws and social customs, much of what is manly and vigorous in the British Constitution, and much of our intense love of freedom and fair play, is due to the pith, pluck, enterprise, and sense of justice that dwelt in the breasts of the rugged old […]

The Bottle Imp
LizMay 2, 2025
#windfarms #windmills #renewable_energy #orcadian
MarkMar 19, 2025

Two #posties deployed to Harray amid delivery disruption - The #Orcadian Online

Two postal workers have been deployed to Harray to “return deliveries to normal” after some residents reported not receiving any letters or parcels for over ten days.

#RoyalMail shared this update with The Orcadian today (Tuesday), amid serious concerns around a lack of #deliveries — and communication regarding the #disruption.

https://orcadian.co.uk/two-posties-deployed-to-harray-amid-delivery-disruption/

#PrivatisationFail #Orkney #mail #postal #post #Scotland

Two posties deployed to Harray amid delivery disruption - The Orcadian Online

Two postal workers have been deployed to Harray to “return deliveries to normal” after some residents reported not receiving any letters or parcels for over ten days. Royal Mail shared this update with The Orcadian today (Tuesday), amid serious concerns around a lack of deliveries — and communication regarding the disruption. Orkney MSP Liam McArthur […]

The Orcadian Online
Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureFeb 20, 2025

“Just as, after reading Heinlein, a door is no longer quite the same thing, so, after reading DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA, a dialect is no longer quite the same thing either… It is not just poetry about a science-fictional subject. It is poetry in which the poetry itself is science fiction.”

–Cat Fitzpatrick reviews DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA for STRANGE HORIZONS

8/8

@bookstodon

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/deep-wheel-orcadia-by-harry-josephine-giles/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #scifi #sciencefiction #poetry

Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles

At the same time, I want to argue, what is really electrifying about it is the way it does something distinctly science-fictional, not only at the levels of worldbuilding and plot, but at the level…

Strange Horizons