Perhaps best known for his magisterial History of the Celtic Place-Names of Scotland, Professor William J. Watson also wrote a number of fascinating papers on the subject of place names, most of which are to be found in this volume.
William Gillies, holder of the Chair of Celtic Languages, Literature, History and Antiquities in the University of Edinburgh from 1979 to 2009 has made an immense contribution to Celtic scholarship.
A examination of the Celtic-speaking peoples of Brittany, Cornwall, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Scottish Highlands and Wales and how they played a vital role in the history of Europe and the Americas.
In 1940, in Barra in the Outer Hebrides, an 18-year-old woman, Flòraidh, is persuaded to leave her island home when she learns that her stepmother intends to marry her off to the local shopkeeper. She follows her enigmatic friend Lavinia to the city and changes her identity to Laura, like a butterfly, leaving her chrysalis behind, as they join the war effort.
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