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Journal articles on the topic "Scottish gaelic philology – history"

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Egan, Simon. "Richard II and the Wider Gaelic World: A Reassessment." Journal of British Studies 57, no. 2 (2018): 221–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2017.237.

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AbstractAlthough Richard II's Irish expedition of 1394–95 has attracted considerable scholarly attention, the focus has largely been on Richard's relations with the colonial administration in Ireland, pointing mainly to the colonial government's plea for greater royal investment in the colony as the main factor underpinning Richard's decision to intervene in Ireland. Little attention, by comparison, has been devoted to exploring the king's relations with both the Gaelic Irish and Gaelic Scottish nobility. Using Richard's relations with the expanding Gaelic world as the main case study, this ar
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Ezeji, Cass. "Speaking our Language: Past, Present and Future." Scottish Affairs 30, no. 2 (2021): 231–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2021.0362.

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In this essay Cass Ezeji, a singer and linguist from Glasgow, explores her experiences of Gaelic Medium Education (GME) as a child with no direct roots to a’ Ghàidhealtachd. She challenges the limitations of Scottish history taught in schools as well as perspectives on the Gaelic language. She considers the historical context of Afro-Scottish identities as a means of broadening the way we think about Gaelic and its speakers, whilst shedding light on a neglected diaspora.
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FERGUSON, WILLIAM. "Samuel Johnson's Views on Scottish Gaelic Culture." Scottish Historical Review 77, no. 2 (1998): 183–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/shr.1998.77.2.183.

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Findlay, David. "Newton, Handbook of the Scottish Gaelic World." Scottish Historical Review 81, no. 2 (2002): 294–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/shr.2002.81.2.294.

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Ellis, Steven G. "The collapse of the Gaelic world, 1450–1650." Irish Historical Studies 31, no. 124 (1999): 449–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021121400014358.

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This article offers some reflections on the processes of nation-making and state formation as they affected the oldest ethnic and cultural grouping in the British Isles, that of the Gaedhil, roughly in the period 1450–1650, and examines the ways in which these processes have been portrayed by historians. At the present day the Gaelic language remains the normal medium of communication in small areas of western Ireland and western Scotland; and in respect of political developments in both Scotland and Ireland, Gaelic customs and culture have exercised a much more substantial influence. Despite
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Cox, Richard A. V. "The Norse element in Scottish Gaelic." Etudes Celtiques 29, no. 1 (1992): 137–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/ecelt.1992.1998.

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Cipriano, Salvatore. "“Students Who Have the Irish Tongue”: The Gaidhealtachd, Education, and State Formation in Covenanted Scotland, 1638–1651." Journal of British Studies 60, no. 1 (2021): 66–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2020.186.

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AbstractThis article examines the Scottish Covenanters’ initiatives to revamp educational provision in the Gaidhealtachd, the Gaelic-speaking portions of Scotland, from the beginning of the Scottish Revolution in 1638 to the Cromwellian conquest of Scotland in 1651. Scholars have explored in detail the range of educational schemes pursued by central governments in the seventeenth century to “civilize” the Gaidhealtachd, but few have engaged in an analysis of Covenanting schemes and how they differed from previous endeavors. While the Statutes of Iona are probably the best-known initiative to c
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Nance, Claire. "Scottish Gaelic revitalisation: Progress and aspiration." Journal of Sociolinguistics 25, no. 4 (2021): 617–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josl.12508.

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Stalmaszczyk, Piotr. "Język gaelicki – historia, przyczyny upadku i szanse przetrwania." Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Linguistica 26 (January 1, 1992): 101–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/0208-6077.26.08.

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The paper discusses the history and fate of Scottish Gaelic since its arrival in Scotland in the 5th century. Once the most important language of Scotland, Gaelic undergoes now sociolinguistic changes indicating the process known as language death. Some of the causes of decline include the loss of status, lack of literature and education in Gaelic, territorial and social disunity, massive emigration, and the overwhelming influence and impact of the English language. Unless institutional and individual attitudes towards the language change, the next century may witness the death of yet another
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Dziennik, Matthew, and Micheal Newton. "Egypt, Empire, and the Gaelic Literary Imagination." International Review of Scottish Studies 43 (March 7, 2019): 1–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.21083/irss.v43i0.3912.

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This article presents an edition, translation, and analysis of a Scottish Gaelic song by the Reverend Seumas MacLagain [James McLagan] (1728-1805) about the battle of Alexandria of 1801. This text, which has not received any previous scholarly attention, is a rare illustration of an attempt of a member of the Gaelic intelligentsia to re-frame Gaelic identity and history so as to reconcile them with the agenda of British imperialism. While largely unmentioned in analysis of Gaelic Scotland, the victory in Egypt was a crucial moment that was used by McLagan and others to draw the Gaidhealtachd i
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Scottish gaelic philology – history"

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Nance, Claire. "Phonetic variation, sound change, and identity in Scottish Gaelic." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4603/.

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This thesis examines language variation and change in a context of minority language revitalisation. In particular, I concentrate on young fluent speakers of Scottish Gaelic, a minority language of Scotland that is currently undergoing revitalisation. Data from three groups of speakers are presented: older speakers in the Isle of Lewis, a Gaelic heartland area in north-west Scotland; adolescent Gaelic-speakers in Lewis learning the language in immersion schooling; and adolescent Gaelic-speakers in immersion schooling in Glasgow, an urban centre where Gaelic has not traditionally been spoken as
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McNiven, Peter Edward. "Gaelic place-names and the social history of Gaelic speakers in medieval Menteith." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2685/.

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This thesis illustrates that place-names are an essential resource for our understanding of Scottish medieval rural society, with a particular emphasis on Menteith. Place-names are an under-utilised resource in historical studies, and yet have much to inform the historian or archaeologist of how people used and viewed the medieval landscape. We know a great deal of the upper echelons of Scottish medieval society, especially the politics, battles, and lives of significant figures, such as various kings and great barons. However, we know next to nothing of the people from whom the nobility deriv
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Carty, Nicola. "Slighean gu fileantas : an exploratory study of the nature of proficiency in adult L2 Scottish Gaelic." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6376/.

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This thesis explores the measurement of adult second language (L2) oral proficiency in Scottish Gaelic (henceforth Gaelic). Gaelic is a minority language in Scotland, and is currently the object of a major effort to reverse language shift. Adult L2 users of Gaelic have been identified as key agents in this effort, but some weaknesses in adult Gaelic language-in-education policy are making it difficult for adult L2 users to fulfil this role. One such weakness is the absence of an empirically-derived means of assessing proficiency in Gaelic, through which adult L2 users and their teachers can as
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Morét, Ulrike. "Gaelic history and culture in mediaeval and sixteenth-century Lowland Scottish historiography." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1993. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=124215.

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The subject of this study is attitudes towards Gaelic Scotland to be found in Lowland Scottish historiography of the late fourteenth to the late sixteenth century; the authors examined were John of Fordun, Andrew Wyntoun, Walter Bower, John Mair, Hector Boece, John Leslie and George Buchanan. In the first part of the thesis the historical works were examined with respect to the attitude of each individual author towards the Highlanders of his own time. It was found that the earlier authors - i.e. Fordun, Wyntoun, Bower and Mair - mirror anti-Highland feeling and prejudice that were widespread
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Testa, Denise A. "'A bastard Gaelic man' : reconsidering the highland roots of Adam Ferguson." Thesis, View thesis, 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/38582.

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This thesis attacks the neglected and unresolved historiographical problem connecting Adam Ferguson’s work, in particular, his Essay on the History of Civil Society, to his early life experience. During the 1960s and 1970s, the issue of Ferguson’s Highland background first came to the fore. A knowledge of Gaelic marked Ferguson out from his colleagues, denoting his status as a Highlander. Michael Kugler’s 1994 study examined how Ferguson and his contemporaries constructed an idealised representation of Highland society. My investigation takes a novel approach by concentrating on matters relati
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Mac, Leòid Aonghas Uilleam Gearóid. "An dàn fada Gàidhealach, 1900-1950 : sgrùdadh ioma-chuspaireil air corpas air dìochuimhne." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6100/.

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Tha an tràchdas seo a’ coimhead air buidheann de dhàin fhada a nochd aig toiseach an fhicheadaimh linn. Cha deach cus ùidh a shealltainn sna dàin seo bho sgrùdairean Gàidhealachadh sa chiad dol a-mach. Bho chrìoch an fhicheadamh linn, tha ùidh air nochdadh sna dàin seo a-rithist, gu h-àraidh An Cuilithionn, Aeòlus agus Balg agus Mochtàr is Dùghall. Ach ’s e an tràchdas seo a’ chiad sgrùdadh domhain air a’ bhuidheann seo de dhàin nan aonar. Gus an rannsachadh seo a dhèanamh thèid corpas a lorg am measg leabhraichean agus irisean bhon àm, agus na co-chruinneachaidhean a chaidh fhoillseachadh nas
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Hornsby, Michael. "Globalisation processes and minority languages : linguistic hybridity in Brittany." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/344489/.

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Recent interest in the ‘disappearance’ of languages has been accompanied by increased revitalisation efforts in many minority language settings, often considered to be experiencing obsolescence due to pressures of globalisation and modernity. Many of these revival movements aim to ‘recreate’ an idealised (or ‘authentic’) form of the language in question, through reference to traditional or standardised language practices. Simultaneously, however, ‘unanticipated results of language management’ (Spolsky 2006: 87) have produced non‐traditional and hybrid linguistic forms which are very often cont
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Scott, K. M. "Is Leis an Tighearna an Talamh agus a Làn (The Earth and all that it contains belongs to God) : the Scottish Gaelic settlement history of Prince Edward Island." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.661676.

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This thesis is about the movement of Scottish Gaels from the Highlands of Scotland to Prince Edward Island during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It demonstrates that for many Scottish Gaels emigration represented a well-informed and considered response to the imposition of unacceptable forms of social control in the Gàidhealtachd. Studies of this subject have usually ignored or discounted the Gaelic perspective and therefore have underestimated the impact of the long and bitter social, political and cultural conflict which was occurring between the Gàidhealtachd and the non-Gaelic ce
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Kennedy, Mike. "Is leis an Tighearna an talamh agus an lan (The earth and all that it contains belongs to God) : the Scottish Gaelic settlement history of Prince Edward Island." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/20603.

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Testa, Denise A., University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, and School of Humanities and Languages. "'A bastard Gaelic man' : reconsidering the highland roots of Adam Ferguson." 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/38582.

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This thesis attacks the neglected and unresolved historiographical problem connecting Adam Ferguson’s work, in particular, his Essay on the History of Civil Society, to his early life experience. During the 1960s and 1970s, the issue of Ferguson’s Highland background first came to the fore. A knowledge of Gaelic marked Ferguson out from his colleagues, denoting his status as a Highlander. Michael Kugler’s 1994 study examined how Ferguson and his contemporaries constructed an idealised representation of Highland society. My investigation takes a novel approach by concentrating on matters relati
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Books on the topic "Scottish gaelic philology – history"

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Cathal, Ó hÁinle, Meek Donald E, and Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Irish., eds. Unity in diversity: Studies in Irish and Scottish Gaelic language, literature and history. School of Irish, Trinity College, 2004.

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1921-, Thomson Derick, ed. The Companion To Gaelic Scotland. Blackwell Reference, 1987.

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Stalmaszczyk, Piotr. Celtic presence: Studies in Celtic languages and literatures: Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Cornish. Łódź University Press, 2005.

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William, Gillies, and University of Edinburgh, eds. Gaelic and Scotland =: Alba agus a Ǵhàidhlig. Edinburgh University Press, 1989.

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Newton, Michael Steven. Gaelic in Scottish history and culture. An Clochán, 1997.

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Thomson, Derek. An introduction to Gaelic poetry. 2nd ed. Edinburgh University Press, 1989.

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Bennett, Margaret. The last stronghold: Scottish Gaelic traditions of Newfoundland. Canongate Pub., 1989.

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Churches, World Council of, ed. The Scottish Highlands: The churches and Gaelic culture. WCC Publications, 1996.

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Thomson, Derick S. An introduction to Gaelic poetry. 2nd ed. Edinburgh University Press, 1989.

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Thomson, Derick S. An introduction to Gaelic poetry. 2nd ed. Edinburgh University Press, 1989.

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Book chapters on the topic "Scottish gaelic philology – history"

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Chapman, Malcolm. "Introduction: History and the Highlands." In The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003205012-1.

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Van den Bruel, Luz. "‘To the Further Improvement of Philology’: Vans Kennedy’s Historical Approach to Language Science in 19th Century India." In Documenter et décrire les langues d’Asie : histoire et épistémologie. Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences du langage, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4000/138n8.

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The Scottish Orientalist Vans Kennedy (1784–1846) was active in oriental linguistic scholarship during the beginning of the 19th century. Kennedy traveled to Bombay in 1800 as part of the East India Company army (Bird 1848). Due to his pre-existing interest in languages and his role as Persian interpreter, Kennedy was also accepted as a member of the Bombay Literary Society (later the BBRAS) in 1817. Simultaneous with his military career, Kennedy published texts on various oriental topics, his language studies concerning Persian, Hindustani, ‘Maratha’, and Sanskrit. However, Ludo Rocher (1989:
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Kidd, Sheila M. "The Scottish Gaelic Press." In The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424882.003.0023.

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This article surveys the emergence of the Scottish Gaelic periodical press, amid rising levels of Gaelic literacy, from the early decades of the nineteenth century. It considers the initial wave of publications from 1829–1850, one which was dominated by the clergy with moral, spiritual and educative aims, alongside the promotion of emigration. It moves on to examine the re-emergence of periodicals from the 1870s when the Gaelic press became a vehicle for cultural revival. The appearance of regular Gaelic columns in Highland newspapers in the politically-charged later decades of the nineteenth-
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Kidd, Sheila M. "11. The Scottish Gaelic Press." In The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781474424905-015.

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Hill, Anne Macleod. "Reformed Theology in Gaelic Women’s Poetry and Song." In The History of Scottish Theology, Volume II. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759348.003.0008.

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Gaelic women’s poetry and song track the reception of Reformed theology in Gaelic communities both geographically and diachronically. They also allow insights into the spiritual, ethical, and societal concerns of those whose voices are otherwise unheard. Whether ostensibly secular or explicitly spiritual, Gaelic women’s songs carry a record of the religious, cultural, and domestic life of Highland Scotland in many individual voices. The earliest Gaelic evangelical songs belonged to the oral tradition, and were specifically directed towards making biblical teaching and Reformed doctrine accessi
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Frater, Anne C. "1. The Gaelic Tradition up to 1750." In A History of Scottish Women's Writing. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780748672660-002.

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Bateman, Meg. "43. Women's Writing in Scottish Gaelic Since 1750." In A History of Scottish Women's Writing. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780748672660-044.

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"Marriage, Divorce and Concubinage in Gaelic Scotland." In Continuity, Influences and Integration in Scottish Legal History, edited by Hector L. MacQueen. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474488761.003.0004.

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The chapter argues that the nineteenth-century historians Skene and Gregory were correct in drawing attention to peculiar Highland marriage customs, although their misappropriation of the word “handfasting” to describe these customs was unfortunate and has confused the issue. In Scotland, as in Ireland, customs of marriage based ultimately on ancient Irish law, continued until the seventeenth century. It is convenient to refer to these customs, adopting recent Irish academic usage, as “Celtic secular marriage”. These were indeed the customs to which Martin Martin referred to in 1695, albeit in
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Macleod, Michelle. "The Professionalization of Gaelic Drama." In The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre. Oxford University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192857385.013.32.

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Abstract As an innovation of the twentieth century stimulated to promote interest in language and culture in the face of evident decline, plays in Scottish Gaelic have often tackled topics which show Gaels striving to overcome adversity. This chapter considers and contextualizes current professional Gaelic theatre activity in Scotland and specifically discusses the work of touring Gaelic theatre company Theatre Gu Leòr, established in 2014. There is a particular focus on plays which give voice to lesser-known episodes of Scottish history and weave together themes relating to language, culture,
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"3 Marriage, Divorce and Concubinage in Gaelic Scotland." In Continuity, Influences and Integration in Scottish Legal History. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781474488785-009.

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