Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival

7 March 2024 6:30 pm

Join Petra Poncarová, Ian MacDonald and Rob Ó Maolalaigh to discuss the work of poet Derick Thomson and celebrate the publication of Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival at the Gaelic Books Council in Glasgow.

Derick Thomson’s poetry ranks among the best in the Gaelic language and he contributed to the preservation and development of Gaelic as an editor, journalist, scholar, and activist.
Thomson instigated a number of ventures aimed at promoting Gaelic and had a major impact on Gaelic studies as an academic subject. In 1968, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Gaelic Books Council at the University of Glasgow, and is today the namesake of the Derick Thomson Poetry Prize at the Gaelic Literature Awards.

Petra Johana Poncarová is a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Glasgow. In 2020, she published The Gaelic Poetry of Derick Thomson (Scotnote Study Guide) with the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, and her first monograph, Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival, came out from Edinburgh University Press in 2024.

This event will be in English.