The most comprehensive sociolinguistic survey of the state of Gaelic in the vernacular communities ever conducted, the Islands Gaelic Research Project.
Over 240 Perthshire Gaelic folktales and songs collected and recorded in 1891 by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray (1868-1940), daughter of the 7th Duke of Atholl. With facing-page English translations.
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.
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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