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Scottish Gaelic language

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = EUA

Found in 139 Collections and/or Records:

Recent Gaelic poets, 1896

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/30
Scope and Contents

A script for a lecture delivered by Makinnon on 16 March 1896.

Dates: 1896
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Lecture notes / University lectures

Rev. John Macleod's Gaelic-English Dictionary. Volume I, 1828

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Identifier: Coll-98/2/1
Scope and Contents 1st volume (of 4) of an impressive dictionary, published by the Highland Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, in 1828. This volume of the dictionary begins with A and finishes with Cn cnaimh reamhar. The volume is interleaved with systematic manuscript additions by Professor Donald Mackinnon. Professor Mackinnon also makes handwritten editorial annotations on printed pages of the dictionary, including...
Dates: 1828
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Dictionaries (printed)

Rev. John Macleod's Gaelic-English Dictionary. Volume II, 1828

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Identifier: Coll-98/2/2
Scope and Contents

2nd volume (of 4) of an impressive dictionary, published by the Highland Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, in 1828. This volume of the dictionary begins with "Cn">, "cnaimhseag", and finishes with "Gn", "gnàthachadh". The volume is interleaved with systematic manuscript additions by Professor Donald Mackinnon. Professor Mackinnon also makes handwritten editorial annotations on printed pages of the dictionary, including corrections and deletions.

Dates: 1828
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Dictionaries (printed)

Rev. John Macleod's Gaelic-English Dictionary. Volume III, 1828

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

3rd volume (of 4) of an impressive dictionary, published by the Highland Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, in 1828. This volume of the dictionary begins with "Go", "golghaireach", and finishes with "Pu", "puthar". The volume is interleaved with systematic manuscript additions by Professor Donald Mackinnon. Professor Mackinnon also makes handwritten editorial annotations on printed pages of the dictionary, including corrections and deletions.

Dates: 1828
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Dictionaries (printed)

Rev. John Macleod's Gaelic-English Dictionary. Volume IV, 1828

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Identifier: Coll-98/2/4
Scope and Contents 4th volume (of 4) of an impressive dictionary, published by the Highland Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, in 1828. This volume of the dictionary begins with R and an explanation of the letter "r" in Gaelic, and finishes with Ut ùtraiseachd. The volume is interleaved with systematic manuscript additions by Professor Donald Mackinnon. Professor Mackinnon also makes handwritten editorial...
Dates: 1828
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Dictionaries (printed)

Robert Archibald Armstrong's Gaelic Dictionary. Part I: Gaelic to English. Volume I, 1825

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Identifier: Coll-98/2/5
Scope and Contents This is the 1st volume of te 1st part of a 2-part Gaelic dictionary compiled by Robert Archibald Armstrong. Published in London in 1825, it was the first Gaelic dictionary to be published. This part of the dictionary gives the Gaelic to English lists. The first printed page has printed on it in large upper case letters 'FOCLAIR. GAILIG AGUS BEURLA.' (translation: 'Dictionary. Gaelic and English'). The dictionary is interleaved with systematic manuscript additions by Professor Donald...
Dates: 1825
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Dictionaries (printed)

Robert Archibald Armstrong's Gaelic Dictionary. Part II: Gaelic to English. Volume II, 1825

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Identifier: Coll-98/2/6
Scope and Contents This is the 2nd volume of te 1st part of a 2-part Gaelic dictionary compiled by Robert Archibald Armstrong. Published in London in 1825, it was the first Gaelic dictionary to be published. This part of the dictionary gives the Gaelic to English lists. The dictionary is interleaved with systematic manuscript additions by Professor Donald Mackinnon. Professor Mackinnon also makes handwritten editorial annotations on printed pages of the dictionary, including corrections and deletions. The...
Dates: 1825
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Dictionaries (printed)

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

'Some features of Gaelic rhyming', 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-98/3/1/10
Scope and Contents

A script for a lecture, or draft for an article, concerning the the patterns and metres in Gaelic verse, with some special reference to the Gaelic singing tradition.

Dates: 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Mackinnon's own notes and research material / Literature

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