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We were bilingual.  We used the English language as finely and as freely as the English did.  All English literature was ours, but our literature was not theirs. 
                                                        Mary Symon, Aberdeen, 15 February 1932.
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AYE  AYE  &  WeLCOME


​The Doric Literature Portal makes available some of the jewels of dialect literature from the North-East of Scotland.  It contains examples of poetry and prose from a range of writers as well as recordings, biographies and reference works. 

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»  BENNYGOAK / FlORA GARRY
»  GIN  I  WAS  GOD  / CHARLES MURRAY
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 HAMEWITH : FIN  OOT  ABOOT  CHARLES  MURRAY

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The imaginative literature of Aberdeen for the past century has been dominated by a single theme – a single myth if you like in the deep psychological sense – a passion for the land... In poetry Charles Murray, John C. Milne and Flora Garry have illuminated the same obsessive concern.
                                                                    Cuthbert Graham

DORIC  WYLE  /  DORIC CHOICE

YER  ROARIN'  NORLAN  WINDS

Ivry fyle we will hae a Doric wyle fae a weel-kent face roonaboot the nor-east.  First aff is  GORDON HAY, fa owersettit the New Testament tae Doric, wyles his favourite Doric poem.
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A wid hae tae plump for Charles Murray's It wisna his wyte as ma faavourite. A learnt it for a skweel concert fan A wis nine eer aul (A didna tackle the hinmaist verse till A wis 40) and it wis ma introduction tae Doric literature. "His pints wasna tied, an e backs o' his lugs Nott some sma' attention as weel" jist sums up wee loons aawye an in ony ginneration.

READ  IT WISNA  HIS  WYTE

Far Mearns Doric and Angus cam the gither.   Violet Jacob's poem The Wild Geese sung be Jean Redpath.  


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  • Hame
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    • William Alexander
    • Marion Angus
    • Helen Beaton
    • Peter Buchan
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    • Helen Cruickshank
    • Robert Forbes
    • Flora Garry
    • Lewis Grassic Gibbon
    • Gavin Greig
    • Violet Jacob
    • Pittendrigh MacGillivray
    • John Clark Milne
    • Charles Murray
    • W.M. Philip
    • Elsie Rae
    • David Rorie
    • Alexander Ross
    • Nan Shepherd
    • John Skinner
    • Mary Symon
    • William Thom
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