Scots

Although Erskine’s magazines tried to promote Gaelic as the national language of Scotland, sometimes at the expense of Scots, they also published a substantial amount of content related to Scots, both original writing and essays.

ORIGINAL WRITING IN SCOTS

Guth na Bliadhna

  • Tamar Faed [Isobell Marchbank]: ‘Hame’s Hame’ [poetry, SC], Volume XIV, Issue 3 (Autumn 1917)

The Scottish Review

  • Sanny McNee [Murray McCabe]: ‘Whus’lin’ Geordie’, ‘A Lassie Greets’ [poetry, SC; reprint from The Scottish Farm Servant], Issue 86, Volume 40 (Summer 1917)
  • Sanny McNee [Murray McCabe]: ‘Owre the Hill’ [poetry, SC], Issue 87, Volume 40 (Autumn 1917)
  • R. T. Clark: ‘An Episode of the War’ [play, SC], Issue 94, Volume 42 (Summer 1919)

The Pictish Review

  • Pittendrigh Macgillivray: ‘The Flower o’ Yarrow’ [ballad, SC], Issue 5, Volume I (March 1928)
  • Pittendrigh Macgillivray: ‘The Birth-Bed Prayer’ [folklore, SC], Issue 6, Volume I (April 1928)
  • Pittendrigh Macgillivray: ‘The Beggar’ [poetry, SC], Issue 6, Volume I (April 1928)
  • Hugh MacDiarmid: ‘Scottish Poet’s Wealth’, ‘The Celtic Sunrise’ [poetry, SC], Issue 8, Volume I (June 1928)

CONTENT RELATED TO SCOTS

Guth na Bliadhna

  • Artur Cinnloch: ‘A’ Chànain Nàiseanta agus “Broad Scots”’ [vocabulary list with commentary, GD & SC], Volume XVII, Issue 2 (Summer 1920)
  • Artur Cinnloch: ‘A’ Chànain Nàiseanta agus “Broad Scots” II’ [vocabulary list with commentary, GD & SC], Volume XVII, Issue 3 (Autumn 1920)
  • [without attribution, assumed Ruaraidh Erskine]: ‘Roibeart Burns’ [article, GD], Volume XIX, Issue 3 (Summer 1924)
  • [without attribution, assumed Ruaraidh Erskine]: ‘“An Doric”’ [article, GD], Volume XIX, Issue 4 (Autumn 1924)

The Scottish Review

  • R. Murray: ‘James Scadlock – A Poet Friend of Tannahill’ [essay, ENG], Issue 79, Volume 38, Autumn 1915
  • W. G. Blaikie Murdoch: ‘William Thom, the Weaver’ [essay, ENG], Spring 1920

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