Writer Donald S Murray is scheduled to appear at the annual conference of the Association for Scottish Literature, being held at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on the Isle of Skye from June 26 to 28.
The conference is adopting the theme, “Our Three-Voiced Country: Twentieth-century cross-currents in Gaelic and other Scottish writing.” It will examine the shared influences and interconnections between Gaelic and other Scottish writing, from the Celtic Revival and the Scottish Renaissance to the beginnings of the new millennium.
Donald will be discussing “The Bilingual Basis of Creativity” on Saturday, June 27.
The conference will focus on the literary interactions between Gaelic, Scots, and English, and the cross-currents found in poetry, drama, novels, song, media, and education. It will also explore twentieth-century perspectives on Scottish multilingualism and cultural identity.
The Skye conference continues a sequence of influential Association for Scottish Literature conferences that produced landmark volumes. These include Crossing the Highland Line: Cross-currents in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Writing (2009) and Gael and Lowlander in Scottish Literature: Cross-currents in Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century (2015).
A forthcoming volume based on selected papers from the 2026 conference will complete this trilogy, covering the twentieth century.
Further details about the conference can be found on the Sabhal Mòr Ostaig website.
