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Orcadian

Erland Cooper

The Scotsman Sessions #351: Erland Cooper

Carol Anderson (left) hands over chanters to the Barbados Defence Force Band, with hopes to set up a pipe band with young army cadets. PIC: Contributed.

Bagpipes, tartan and reggae set to meet under the beating Barbados sun

Pinkie Maclure and John Wills, aka Pumajaw

Scapa Foolscap: Pumajaw on their new Orkney-inspired album

Harry Josephine Giles's verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia is ambitious and enjoyable, says Laura Waddell

Sci-fi verse novel in Orcadian adds lustre to poet’s rising star – Laura Waddell

Harry Josephine Giles

The Scotsman Sessions #267: Harry Josephine Giles

Douglas Montgomery and Brian Cromarty performed as the duo Saltfishforty at the HebCelt Survivor Sessions last week.

Global reach for HebCelt's 'Survival Sessions' a huge achievement

Alison Miller, the new Orkney Scriever, will encourage islanders to write in their mother tongue. PIC: Orkney Photographic.

Spotlight on Orcadian as language champion appointed

The poet George Mackay Brown (Picture: Werner Forman Archive/Shutterstock)

Books - George Mackay Brown's Orkney Vision

The North Sea may be entering its sunset years but there is still a flurry of activity for late-life assets and fresh discoveries being made.

North Sea oil field firm Orcadian to raise millions in stock market flotation

Gnoss, from left to right: Graham Rorie, Craig Baxter, Aidan Moodie and Connor Sinclair

From Paris to the Arctic: Orcadian fiddler Graham Rorie on his exotic lockdown p...

Portraits of Margaret Tait

Book review: Personae, by Margaret Tait

Politicians should have made it more clear that Christmas would have to be different this year, says Ayesha Hazarika (Picture: Shutterstock)

Why Christmas is cancelled this year for me –  Ayesha Hazarika

Erland Cooper

The Scotsman Sessions #45: Erland Cooper

Kate Horsley ‘found Frankenstein’s bride in Orkney’

Big Brother winner backing the Union

Book review: The History of Orkney Literature, Simon H Wall

Comedy review: Martin "Bigpig" Mor

First Ortak 'boutique' outlet opens

Cannibalism and cover-up: Why history spurned Orkney's John Rae

The arcadian days of the Orcadian

Secret life of the white headhunter

The Scotsman Top Stories

The sister of Sheku Bayoh, Kadi Johnston (centre) and Human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar (right) during a anti-racism and anti-fascist march in Glasgow,

Analysis: Timing, resource questions underpin ‘institutional racism’ admission

Billionaire media mogul Logan Roy, played by Brian Cox, is just one of the memorable characters in Succession.

Five must-watch Succession episodes ahead of finale

The scene after a car collided with the gates of Downing Street

Man arrested after car crashes into gates of Downing Street