This section seeks to provide links to existing research concerning Ruaraidh Erskine, his magazines, and his networks.
Digitised Issues of Guth na Bliadhna (vol. I-IV)
Digitised Issues of An Sgeulaiche (vol. I-III)
Digitised Issues of Am Bàrd (vol. I)
Monographs
- Gerard Cairns, No Language! No Nation! The Life and Times of the Honourable Ruaraidh Erskine of Marr (Perth: Rymour Books, 2021)
Articles
- Gerard Cairns, ‘Principles and Curses: The Honourable Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar and Some Irish Connections,’ Litteraria Pragensia 33:65 (2023)
- Alex Murray, ‘Unionism, Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism: Ruaraidh Erskine of Marr at the Fin de Siècle,’ Studies in Scottish Literature 48:1 (2022)
- Petra Johana Poncarová, ‘MacDiarmid and the Gaelic World: C. M. Grieve, Ruaraidh Erskine and Derick Thomson,’ Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023: Visions and Revisions, ed. Camille Manfredi, Philippe Laplace, and Fiona Paterson (De Gruyter Brill, 2026)
- Petra Johana Poncarová, ‘Folklore Material in Ruaraidh Erskine’s Gaelic Magazines,’ Review of Scottish Culture 30:1 (2025) (open access)
- Petra Johana Poncarová, ‘The Visual Dimension of Ruaraidh Erskine’s Scottish Magazines,’ Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History 30 (2025-2026), 35-42. (accepted manuscript version available in open access)
- Petra Johana Poncarová, ‘Irish Content and Contributors in Ruaraidh Erskine’s Gaelic Magazines,’ Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies 12:1 (2025) doi: 10.57132/jiss.375 (open access)
- Petra Johana Poncarová, ‘A Fitting Offering to the Gaelic Thalia or Melpomene: Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar and Drama in Scottish Gaelic,’ Litteraria Pragensia 30:59 (2020)
- Petra Johana Poncarová, ‘Snake Women and Hideous Sensations: The Strange Case of Gaelic Detective Short Stories by Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar,’ Scottish Literary Review 12:1 (2020)
- Patrick Witt, ‘Connections across the North Channel: Ruaraidh Erskine and Irish Influence in Scottish Discontent, 1906-1920,’ The Irish Story
Video talks
- Alex Murray, ‘Neo-Jacobites, Decadents and Fin de Siècle Nationalism,’ The History of Scottish Cosmopolitanism at the Fin de Siècle, 30 October 2020
- Petra Johana Poncarová, ‘Masculinity in Ruaraidh Erskine’s Short Stories in the Context of Fin-de-siècle Detective Fiction,’ Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Annual Symposium, 26 November 2022
Theses
- Donald John MacLeod, Twentieth Century Gaelic Literature: a description, comprising critical study and a comprehensive bibliography (PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 1969)