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Figures of speech

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Figures of Speech in Gaelic Literature, 1913

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/2/15
Scope and Contents

A script for a lecture on figures of speech in Gaelic literature, held on 14 October 2013, presumably for students of Celtic at the University of Edinburgh.

Dates: 1913
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon / Lecture notes / Public lectures

Karadahalli Hallikar Bullocks, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/836
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a pair of Karadahalli Hallikar bullocks in a field with a man holding their leads in the late 19th or early 20th century [India?].

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Poem beginning 'Nuair bha thu sa bhroinn chaothrian' and accompanying vocabulary, c1866

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW104/16
Scope and Contents

Poem beginning 'Nuair bha thu sa bhroinn chaothrain, Bu fhreasdalach mi ga chobhair' [The Rowan Hostel]. The poem contains twenty-four lines and the vocabulary notes are for 'Meothail = Delight and 'Air dhealbh mhuic = Like hogs'.

Dates: c1866
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael