The earliest vernacular literatures of medieval Western Europe were produced in Britain and Ireland in Old English, Gaelic, and Brittonic languages. Our Anglophone world privileges Old English ...

Glasgow Life announces Niall O'Gallagher as the first Bàrd Baile Ghlaschu/ Glasgow's City Gaelic Poet Laureate, an appointment which will run from 28th July - 31st October and will be launched as part ...

The profession of hereditary bardic poet was among the most distinctive aspects of Gaelic society. In pagan times poets were thought to be gifted with second sight, able in a trance or frenzy to ...

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Late medieval Christianity in Gaelic Ireland was characterised by a revival in the political and religious fear from the 1450s onwards really. In the political sphere, Gaelic Ireland had a revival ...

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