2025/07/01 by Petra Johana Poncarová · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Intellectual Property Law
paper · doi:10.57132/jiss.375
openalex publication_date 2025/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/07/02 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.The article provides the first detailed examination of Irish content in the Gaelic periodicals founded and edited by the Scottish author and activist Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar (1869–1960) in the 1900s – 1930s, especially in the monthly Am Bàrd (1901–1902), in the quarterly Guth na Bliadhna (1904–1925), and in the weekly Alba (1908–1909). It illustrates how Ireland served as a source of inspiration and a point of contrast for the Gaelic revival and national movement in Scotland. The article identifies a number of contributors for the first time and discusses the involvement of influential political and cultural figures such as Douglas Hyde, Peter Toner McGinley, Liam Ó Rinn, and Patrick Eric Mac Fhinn. Furthermore, the article explores the coverage of Irish topics in Erskine’s magazines provided by the editor himself and his team of contributors, including poet and playwright Donald Sinclair. In terms of Erskine’s personal engagement with Ireland, the article goes beyond the magazines, drawing on information from contemporary periodical press and from Erskine’s standalone publications in English that testify to his acquaintance with leading Irish politicians, including Charles Stewart Parnell, and to his involvement in the London émigré networks where Scottish and Irish initiatives collided. The article proves that engagement with Ireland was of momentous importance to Erskine and his Gaelic magazines and laid patterns that were followed by later influential initiatives in Scotland, including the quarterly Gairm (1952–2002).