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With Respect to the Dead: Reconstructing a Historic View of Death in Gaelic Nova Scotia

Genealogy, 2020
Drawing on a combination of oral history and archival research, this article reconstructs a historic view of death and dying in areas of the province settled by Scottish Gaels.
Shamus Y. MacDonald
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‘Có às don Chorra-Ghiullan Ghlas?’

Scottish Studies, 2017
In oral tradition, as well as in literature, the theme is well known of the young man who takes leave of his betrothed or spouse, with the agreement that she is free to (re)marry if he does not return within a specified period of time.
Iain Seathach
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 481-489, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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A Song Remembered in Exile: Anna a Ghaoil, hao ill o, Fear chanaidh, agus Eòin G. MacFhionghain

Scottish Studies
Visiting Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in the 1930s, John Lorne Campbell became aware of the rich heritage of Gaelic song and culture brought to Canada by Scottish settlers.
Robert Dunbar
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Land and Water Pedagogy in TESOL: Centering Indigenous Knowledges

TESOL Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 1832-1858, September 2026.
Abstract The intersection of English Language Teaching (ELT), TESOL, and Indigenous knowledges is an important yet often neglected area of inquiry. This paper explores the importance of including Indigenous knowledges – specifically land and water pedagogies – in ELT, TESOL, and broader language education practices. Through duoethnographic inquiry, we –
Paul J. Meighan, Madoka Hammine
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How weather got its words: a history of meteorological English – Part 1: Old English to the Age of Discovery

Weather, Volume 81, Issue 9, Page 306-311, September 2026.
The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Spatiotemporal Variability and Large‐Scale Drivers of Storm Surge Extremes on the Northwestern European Shelf

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 9, September 2026.
Abstract Extreme Sea Level (ESL) poses a high risk to coastal communities and infrastructure, with its frequency and intensity projected to increase in the future. In this study, we focus on the storm surge component of sea level variability, a key contributor to extreme still water levels during storms.
Lisanne Blok, Marilena Oltmanns, Andrea Marinoni, Ben Evans, Ali Mashayek   +4 more
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PERIODIZING GEOLOGICALLY OUTWITH (AND WITHOUT?) THE ANTHROPOCENE: PASTS, AGENCIES, AND THE TERRESTRIAL

History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 344-367, September 2026.
ABSTRACT As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to premodern histories and texts. However, it has introduced historians to geological periodization as a mode of describing periods of changed ...
Gwenffrewi J. Morgan
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Is there a ‘right’ to use Welsh in prison?

Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 568-590, September 2026.
Abstract The use of the Welsh language is generally understood as a ‘right’ in contemporary Wales. While this right is often lauded as one of Welsh devolution's defining achievements, the efficacy of current protections is contested. This article contributes to the debate by focusing on the prison context, where the question of Welsh language rights is
GREGORY DAVIES, ROBERT JONES
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‘Of course, it didn’t work—that kind of scheme never does’: Scotland, the Nordic Imaginary, and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Thriller

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2020
In the course of the last two decades, nationalist politics in Scotland have pivoted away from positing a civic identity founded on traditionally Celtic motifs—clans, tartan, the Gaelic language—in order to instead imagine an independent country closely
Joe Kennedy
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