Introduction: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2024)
Introduction: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.2
Explains the background for this special issue, Hugh MacDiarmid at 100, in the Scottish Revival Network’s conference in August 2022, which marked the centenary of Hugh MacDiar...
'To "Meddle Wi' The Thistle"': C. M. Grieve's Scottish Chapbook, The Little Magazine, and the Dilemmas of Scottish Modernism
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2024)
'To "Meddle Wi' The Thistle"': C. M. Grieve's Scottish Chapbook, The Little Magazine, and the Dilemmas of Scottish Modernism. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 28-49. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.4
Examines C. M. Grieve’s (Hugh MacDiarmid’s) most important journal enterprise, The Scottish Chapbook, which critics have assumed marks the beginning of a modernist Scottish re...
Introduction: Denis Saurat on ‘“The Scottish Renaissance” Group’
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2024)
Introduction: Denis Saurat on ‘“The Scottish Renaissance” Group’. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 183-185. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.11
Provides the biographical context and publication history for Denis Saurat’s essay ‘Le groupe de “la Renaissance Écossaise”’, which included Saurat’s French translation of som...
Book Review: Richard Alan Barlow. Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (in press)
Book Review: Richard Alan Barlow. Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies,
Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2024)
Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival. In G. Carruthers (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature (127-139). Wiley-Blackwell
The Scottish literary renaissance is a paradox. Imagining Scottish history as a series of catastrophes – Reformation, Union, Enlightenment, industrialisation – the renaissance...
Bogeyman: MacDiarmid, Scotland, and the Critics
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2022)
Bogeyman: MacDiarmid, Scotland, and the Critics. The Dark Horse, 46(Winter 2022/23), 106-107
Sacred Violence: W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse, and The Revival of Ireland
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2022, September)
Sacred Violence: W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse, and The Revival of Ireland. Presented at 'Crossing Borders', School of Humanities Seminar Series 2022/23, University of Strathclyde
This paper frames the Irish Revival as a meta-symbolical attempt to reinterpret and reimagine the cultural and political narrative of Irish history. It focuses on the manner i...
‘To “meddle wi’ the thistle”’: The Scottish Chapbook, Modernism, and Renaissance
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2022, August)
‘To “meddle wi’ the thistle”’: The Scottish Chapbook, Modernism, and Renaissance. Paper presented at MacDiarmid at 100, Online
The first number of The Scottish Chapbook was published in August 1922 and the journal ran until November/December 1923. The most important of MacDiarmid’s several journal pro...