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Irish Studies

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence, J.C Watson, 1938-1941

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW578
Scope and Contents

Items of correspondence, concerning scholarly matters, between James Carmichael Watson and Rudolf Thurneysen and James Carmichael Watson and Thomas F. O'Rahilly. Also an invoive for Togail Bruidne Da Derga edited by Eleanor Knott (Dublin, 1936).

Dates: 1938-1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Notebook No.147, 15 June 1846 - July 1846

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/147
Content warning: This Notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s return to the UK after his second travel to America (Notebooks 121- 145), and so covers American and UK topics, whilst he is based on London, before travelling to Kinnordy - via Edinburgh, Granton and Craig Crook Castle. Note on pg. 70 indexed as 'Ld Cockburn, Hill's daguerrotype' indicates they visited Bonaly, where the Lyell were photographed. This notebook has a hard light brown cover with red on the spine and in triangles on the corners....
Dates: 15 June 1846 - July 1846
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notes on Stories from the Tain, late 19th-early 20th century

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW417
Scope and Contents

Notes on John Strachan's Stories from the Tain.

Dates: late 19th-early 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Queries to My Lord Tarbat from Mr Lloyd of Oxon, after 1690

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [38.2]
Scope and Contents

An Oxford colleague's list of questions about resources for Irish studies in Scotland, probably for remanding by Gregory to his old ally in the Edinburgh Visitation troubles, "My Lord Tarbat", who was George Mackenzie, Viscount Tarbat, first Earl of Cromarty.

Dates: after 1690
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Untitled. Notes on Irish phonology and morphology, 1880s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/3/2/16
Scope and Contents

This bound notebook contains handwritten notes on the phonology of Irish, divided into sections on vowels and consonants, and then a section on morphology, including inflection and pronouns.

Dates: 1880s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Mackinnon's own notes and research material / Linguistics