Scottish Gaelic language
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = EUA
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-98
Scope and Contents
The collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon includes lecture notes on the Gaelic language and culture, copies of Gaelic songs and poetry, religious texts such as hymns and sermons, fragments of medieval manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and photographs. As the first Chair in Celtic at the University of Edinburgh, Professor Mackinnon was very diligent in his work to document and share Gaelic language, literature, and history. The collection not only includes primary and secondary sources, it...
Dates:
15th-19th century
Gaelic Bible belonging to John McLeod Campbell (1800-1872) (Bioball Gàidhlig aig Iain MacLeòid Caimbeul)
Fonds
Identifier: MS CAMP1
Scope and Contents
Copy of Gaelic Bible, 'Leabhraichean an T-seann Tiomnaidh,' (Edinburgh, 1826) printed for the British and Foreign Bible Society, belonging to John McLeod Campbell (1800-1872); gifted to him by his sister Mary Campbell on 10th May 1829.
Dates:
1826-1829
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Letters to Rev John Brown (1754-1832), Whitburn on translating catechisms and tracts into Gaelic and supplying them to the Highlands and Islands
Fonds
Identifier: MS BOX 8.1 to MS BOX 8.2
Scope and Contents
See External Documents (below) for details.
Dates:
1805-1826, 1951
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
Papers of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1036
Scope and Contents
The content of the Papers at shelfmark Gen. 273-286 include a manuscript volume of Gaelic songs, manuscripts and proofs of The songs of the Hebrides, papers relating to The Seal Woman, proofs of Life of Song, and newspaper cuttings. Correspondence at shelfmark Gen. 519-520 includes letters from various members of the Kennedy family in Italy to the family at home, 1879-1880, letters to...
Dates:
1879-1930
Scrapbooks of Iain Moffatt-Pender
Collection — Box CLX-A-1140
Identifier: Coll-1896
Scope and Contents
Two personal scrapbooks of writer and Gaelic revivalist Iain Moffatt-Pender, comprising mostly clippings, photographs, and correspondence which together throw an interesting light on the social milieu of Scottish Gaelic revivalism in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, including links with Irish artists and academics.The first album contains several black-and-white family photographs dating from the beginning and middle of the 20th century, a letter from John Macmillan...
Dates:
1950s-1960s
Scrapbooks of Margaret Jane Campbell Hunter and Daisy Helen Burnley-Campbell
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2080
Content Description
These two scrapboosk were compiled by Margaret Jane Campbell Hunter (a.k.a. Mrs Burnley-Campbell of Ormidale (1857-1938)) and her daughter Daisy
Helen Burnley-Campbell (later Warrand (1891-1973)). Dealing with both public and private life, they contain a substantial quantity of material relating to Margaret’s participation in the Gaelic movement, including events devoted to Gaelic language, Highland culture, games and music. They also record her involvement in the suffragette movement,...
Dates:
1909-1919
The Carmichael-Watson Collection
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-97
Scope and Contents
The Carmichael-Watson Collection consists of papers belonging to the Reverend Alexander Cameron of Arran, Alexander Carmichael, civil servant and folklorist, Alexander MacBain of Inverness, and Professor William John Watson and his son James Carmichael Watson, along with books and papers belonging to the Reverend Charles Robertson of Jura, the Reverend Angus MacDonald, the Reverend Archibald MacDonald and the Reverend Father Allan McDonald of Eriskay. These include: invocations...
Dates:
18th century - mid 20th century