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New Education Resource for Peerie Ooricks
12th February 2021
Jakobsen's Dictionary is online
18th August 2020
Link to Jakob Jakobsen's 'Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland' online
Shetland ForWirds on Facebook and Instagram
14th August 2020
Wir new social media pages
Shetland ForWirds Live@lunch
14th August 2020
A short programme of dialect poems in the Shetland Arts Lunchtime series
Shetland Gruffalo on YouTube
3rd May 2020
Listen here to Shetland Library's recent recordings of the Shetland translations of Julia Donaldson's famous Gruffalo books
Word Game
26th October 2019
Favourite words welcome!
Ann Marie Anderson wins 2019 Rhoda Bulter Award
18th September 2019
'...we were unanimous in our choice'
Screenplay dialect awards 2019
16th September 2019
Peerie Mootie wins top dialect award
Rhoda Bulter Award 2019
5th April 2019
Allen Fraser story wins 2018 Rhoda Bulter Award
28th October 2018
'... entertaining and thought-provoking... employed excellent use of dialect'
Screenplay dialect awards 2018
29th September 2018
Yell films win top awards
Alzheimer Scotland book of poems and photographs
26th November 2017
Rhoda Bulter Award winner 2017
20th October 2017
Julia Smith from Yell is 2017 winner
Screenplay dialect awards 2017
4th September 2017
Rhoda Bulter Award 2017
12th March 2017
A typological study of pre-oil Shetland dialect
13th November 2016
The Shetland Museum and Archives Memorial Lecture, in honour of James Stout Angus, by Prof. Dr. Viveka Vellupillai. Fri.18 Nov. 7 pm
Rhoda Bulter Award winner 2016
23rd October 2016
More Julia Donaldson translations
3rd October 2016
Christine De Luca translates two more books for bairns
First dialect awards at Screenplay 2016
2nd October 2016
2015 ends with exciting developments
1st October 2016
Tell Wiz! DVD
2nd December 2015
Rhoda Bulter Award winner
17th November 2015
Joyce Reid wins 2015 Award
Da Shetland Gruffalo
16th October 2015
Launch on Saturday 24th Oct at Shetland Library
Mystery at da Laird's Haa
8th September 2015
New adventure story for bairns
Box Office open for Tell Wiz film
20th August 2015
Two more chances to see the 2015 production of the musical, as filmed by JJ Jamieson.
Rhoda Bulter Award 2015
10th June 2015
Tell Wiz! sold out
21st April 2015
'Mirds o Wirds' reprint
4th February 2015
Lucy wins first Rhoda Bulter Award
4th February 2015
Rhoda Bulter collection on sale 22nd November
14th November 2014
Wirdcraft event at Bonhoga
14th November 2014
Young Writers 2014 strong in dialect
14th November 2014
Dialect e-book single is translation of Ann Cleeves story
5th September 2014
'Mystery in da möld' published in Denmark by Forlaget Hetland
'Shetland Humour' reprint
15th August 2014
2002 bestseller reprinted in the Year of Shetland Dialect.
Rhoda Bulter award
15th July 2014
New award launched on July 15 2014
Christie leads Library dialect event
10th July 2014
Open mic night of dialect readings
'Mirds o Wirds' on sale
13th June 2014
Illustrated word book now on sale.
Christine is new Edinburgh Makar
26th May 2014
Plans to repeat 'Tell Wiz'
20th May 2014
Well-loved musical show to be performed again
Folk Festival dialect concert
9th May 2014
Bairns' dialect concert at Folk Festival
9th May 2014
SFW concert line-up
1st May 2014
Shetland Day at Glasgow Film Festival
6th March 2014
Dialect Bards
24th January 2014
Prizewinnin poems on display on da Street
'Guddicks' book
17th January 2014
Auld New Year Fjaana
15th January 2014
Year o Shetland Dialect gets aff tae a lightsome start
New books for bairns
10th December 2013
Two new illustrated dialect books for Christmas
2013 Young Writer winners
14th September 2013
A great loss
7th August 2013
Introducin Dratsi
15th May 2013
New cartoon character and mascot is launched
Mary onstage at Celtic Connections
1st March 2013
Fiddlers' Bid feature Shetland poetry
Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand
19th January 2013
Lewis Carroll's classic now in Shetland dialect
Lowrie on CD!
4th December 2012
'Lowrie' now an audio book
Icelandic translations
3rd December 2012
Shetland poetry translated into Icelandic
Words and music of the sea
24th September 2012
Aert-fast - new play from Jacqueline Clark
21st August 2012
Dialect Art Display
4th June 2012
SFW concert was a sell-out
30th May 2012
Northmavine poetry night success
2nd May 2012
First ever 'fjaana' for primary bairns
Skeld Primary win prize for dialect song
2nd April 2012
Whassigo was fun
16th February 2012
Inter-County Whassigo at the Library
Extract from Haldane Burgess novel
2nd February 2012
New on this website, an extract from Haldane Burgess's novel 'Tang' from 1898
New artwork for new resource
11th January 2012
Who do we think we are?
4th December 2011
New doctoral thesis on Shetland identity and language issues
How to tell a njuggle story
14th November 2011
The making of 'Kirsty an da Snarravoe Njuggle'
Shetland-Orkney Library exchange
13th November 2011
Using dialects in the work of island libraries
A Shetland welcome at UHI ceremony
30th August 2011
Billy Tait's Villon translations
14th August 2011
Hansel Press publishes book of Billy Tait's translations of the French poet Villon.
Njuggle to tour Shetland
23rd July 2011
New production for upper primary
Music festival dialect prize
28th March 2011
Unst group win 2011 Music Festival prize for dialect song
How many people speak Shetland dialect?
4th March 2011
Census offers a chance to put a figure on the number of Shetland dialect speakers
Shetland recordings online
10th December 2010
Shetland recordings from the archive of the School of Scottish Studies
Craigsaet CD reprint
8th December 2010
'Craigsaet': rhymes , sangs an stories for peerie bairns.
Study of Shetland sounds
9th September 2010
Swedish researchers investigate the sound of Shetland
Radio 4 programme
31st August 2010
'Norn but not forgotten: sounds of Shetland' on Radio 4
'Shetlanders speak - Orcadians sing': article new on website
15th August 2010
The differences between Orkney and Shetland pronunciation are explored in this 2003 article by Klaske van Leyden.
'Treeds' poems reprinted
3rd August 2010
Laureen Johnson's poetry pamphlet 'Treeds' reprinted by Hansel Cooperative Press
Lecture papers new on website
1st August 2010
Michael Barnes on 'The Study of Norn'; Brian Smith on attitudes to Shetland dialect
New drama on website
20th July 2010
New drama 'Tangle Bells' on website
New collection from Christine De Luca
13th July 2010
Christine De Luca's new collection 'North End of Eden' launched in Edinburgh by Luath Press
Third Rhoda Bulter CD
28th June 2010
'Caald Clods an Tinder', the third Rhoda Bulter CD, is now on sale.
Drap alang Shetland ForWirds
9th June 2010
Drap alang SFW at Hamefarin Club in Islesburgh
Read da book - see da show!
4th June 2010
'Bobby an da Burland Pearls' is Valerie Watt's new book. It is also an exciting new musical for bairns, adapted by Izzy Swanson, with music by Philip Taylor.
'Arc o Möns' joint winner of national award
13th May 2010
Christie Williamson's translations, 'Arc o Möns', joint winner of the Callum MacDonald Memorial Award 2010
'White Below' launched on 7th May
29th April 2010
'White Below', latest publication from Hansel Cooperative Press, is a collection of poems and stories inspired by Shetland's fishing industry.
Bruce is new Dialect Co-ordinator
19th April 2010
The 3 year post of Dialect Co-ordinator has been created as a result of a funding partnership between LEADER funding, SIC Schools Service, Shetland Amenity Trust, Shetland ForWirds and Shetland Arts.
Website Launch
27th March 2010
George P S Peterson snips da ribbon ta launch wir new website.
Prize for dialect singing
12th March 2010
3 Cunningsburgh Primary School lasses scoop the first ever prize for an entry of dialect song at this year's Schools Music Festival.