You can listen to @ionafyfe sing Robert Tannahill’s “The Braes o Balquhidder” here

5/5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4amVK3NL3w

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Celebrating Robert Tannahill (2024)

Dissenting from prevailing notions that label Tannahill as “sweetly sentimental”, Prof Freeman’s lecture positions him as a major poet who expanded the tradition of British “rationalist” pastoralism

3/5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw2mnuTvcic

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Keen blaws the wind o’er er the Braes o’ Gleniffer.
The auld castle’s turrets are cover’d wi’ snaw;
How chang’d frae the time when I met wi’ my lover
Amang the broom bushes by Stanley green shaw…

—Robert Tannahill, “The Braes o’ Gleniffer”
published in The Works of Robert Tannahill (1838)

2/5

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“Whit’s the Scots fer trans?”

UNCO: a queer Scots lexicon – a poetry & music collaboration between the writer Harry Josephine Giles & the musician Malin Lewis – can be downloaded as a free PDF from Harry Josephine Giles’s website

https://harryjosephine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/unco-pamphlet-1.pdf

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An aunt of mine remarked to me:
‘Ah’m no froom
Bit whan Ah see them
Ee’in the trayfi meat
It scunners me.’
I found this very striking.

—AC Jacobs, “Dear Mr Leonard”

5/6

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