Thanks Mary @wmarybeard liber optimus! which I have read; in Scotland classics still taught in the 3 ancient universities - St Andrews, Glasgow & Edinburgh; but less than 10 state high schools teach Latin; 50 years ago all 28 secondary schools in Glasgow had teachers of classics.

Great show👍by Mary Beard, eminent classicist/Roman historian & broadcaster at King’s theatre (Glasgow) insightful on life in ancient Rome, Pompeii etc super rapport with audience - just sorry she didn’t say more about promoting classics teaching in our high schools📚@wmarybeard

facebook.com/share/p/19VyUja… See message on Gaelic language ahead of Royal National Mòd in Glasgow starting on Friday - a few controversial thoughts !🥃🎶 slàinte mhath @WHFP1 @heraldscotland @Oban times @bordnagaidhlig @Ancomunngaidhe1 @kmckenna63

Failt’ air Uachtaran Catherine Connolly gu Gàidhealtachd na h-Alba👍great encouragement for Gàidhlig/Gaeilge links the Irish president is visiting our Gàidhealtachd following in the footsteps of her illustrious predecessors Mary Robinson & Mary McAleese 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 @SabhalMorOstaig 🥃☘️

Superb days at festival/fringe & always uplifting in Scottish Portrait Gallery to see bust of Argyll’s most famous modern son the late John Smith (destined to be prime minister until his untimely death in 1994) & also the renowned Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean suas leis na Gàidheil

Great day at festival fringe @steverichards14 5*!👍👍

Great first day at fringe: Steve Richards arguably best modern political commentator, journalist/writer & podcaster in superb form; clever & insightful Rock & Roll politics show at the space@symposium hall - 2nd in series of 14 daily shows at 12 pm👍 brilliant 5*@steverichards14

Wonderfully uplifting article on Gaelic/hebridean traditions, culture & language in today’s @heraldscotland by inspiring features writer @kmckenna63👍: timely reminder that the Scottish Gàidhealtachd & its people still need considerable support from both Holyrood & Westminster.

We anticipate a great west highland shjnty derby ⚾️👍 suas le camanachd

Chan eil seo ciallach idir ‘s eagal orm gum bi cus ùine chosg air co-chomhairleachadh dhen t-seòrsa seo fon Achd. O mo chreach! 😂

Rev Dr Roddy MacLeod: sorry to hear of Dr Roddy’s passing outstanding Gàidheal, gifted & charismatic minister (church of Scotland), great scholar, writer & historian, shjnty enthusiast, humorous & popular fear an tigh at ceilidhs & much much more: duine air leth, caraid còir: RIP

Great win for Andrew Baxter in Skye, Lochaber & Badenoch - brilliant for highland Libdems vote 🗳️ 👍👍slàinte mhath 🥃 🎈 well done Andrew 👍🎉@scotlibdems

Cho toilichte Serie A 🇮🇹 bhith air @bbcalba 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎙️ viva ball-coise/calcio⚽️ sa Ghàidhlig golaccio gu dearbh 👍 👍@OHenleyAlex super goal gaelico!! Anabarrach math 5*

Very sorry to hear of the death of Jim Wallace, outstanding Scottish liberal who made huge contribution to our politics, devolution & public life generally including service as moderator of the Church of Scotland: sympathy to his family at this time: vir bonus requiescat in pace.

👍Anabarrach cudromach gu dearbh gum bi deasbad farsaing/fosgailte mu cuairt air dè na sgìrean cànain sònraichte a bhios ann: slatan-tomhais airson an comharrachadh, meud na sgìrean ‘s buannachdan dhaibh Crucial to have an open & wide-ranging debate re areas to be designated etc

Delighted to receive for Christmas The Poems of SEAMUS HEANEY edited by Rosie Lavin & Bernard O’Donoghue with Matthew Hollis (Faber & Faber) a magnificent tome of the entire body of poetry of the great ☘️Nobel Laureate 🖊️ to place on my bookshelf beside Letters & Translations👍🥃

Meal a naidheachd air Iain/John 🎉🥃 - program anabarrach math mac’illeMhìcheil@70 - sàr Ìleach, sàr Ghàidheal, sàr chraoladair, sàr phreasantair 🎤 best wishes to this consummate broadcaster, wonderful ambassador for his native Islay - suas le balach na h-Odh @BBCRnG @mac_ille

Magnificent addition to already published Heaney volumes Translations & Letters; looking forward to Fintan O’ Toole’s definitive biography @fotoole super launch programme @RTEArena last night. Seamus much admired in Gaelic Scotland; he himself huge fan of Sorley Maclean’s work 🖋️

For devotees of this literary titan🇮🇪 wonderful publication The Poems of Seamus Heaney; complete works incl. excitingly 25 unpublished poems plus 500 pages of notes👍; a tour de force: credit to publishers Faber & editors Bernard O’Donoghue & Rosie Lavan with Matthew Hollis📚🥃