Gaelic Literature of the Isle of Skye: an annotated bibliography

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BG:

William J Watson (ed.). Bàrdachd Ghàidhlig: Specimens of Gaelic Poetry 1550-1900.

2nd ed.. Stirling: A. Learmonth & Son, 1932. (1st ed. Inverness: Northern Counties, 1918).

FTH:

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser & Kenneth MacLeod (eds.). From the Hebrides. Glasgow: Paterson’s Publications, 1925.

GCApp:

Keith Norman MacDonald (ed). The Gesto Collection of Highland Music. .Leipzig: Oscar Brandsetter, 1895. Appendix.

LC:

J. F. Campbell. Leabhar na Feinne. Vol. 1. London: Spottiswoode & Co. for the author [repr. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1972]

MC:

A. & A. MacDonald (eds). The MacDonald Collection of Gaelic Poetry. Inverness: Northern Counties, 1911.

MSH:

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser & Kenneth MacLeod (eds.). More Songs of the Hebrides. London: Boosey & Co. (post-1927 publication, see: Bassin 1977:185).

OSS:

Ethel Bassin. The Old Songs of Skye: Frances Tolmie and Her Circle. Edited by Derek Bownam.

PB:

Keith Norman MacDonald (ed). Puirt-a-Beul = Mouth-Tunes. Glasgow: Alex. MacLaren & Sons, 1901. [repr. 1931].

PEI:

Prince Edward Island

SGS:

Scottish Gaelic Studies

SGTS:

Scottish Gaelic Texts Society

SH1:

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser & Kenneth MacLeod (eds.). Songs of the Hebrides. London: Boosey & Co, 1909.

SH2:

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser & Kenneth MacLeod (eds.). Songs of the Hebrides. Second volume. London: Boosey & Co., 1917.

SH3:

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser & Kenneth MacLeod (eds.). Songs of the Hebrides. Third volume. London: Boosey & Co., 1921.

SPCK:

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

ST:

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser & Kenneth MacLeod (eds.). Sea-Tangle: Some More Songs of the Hebrides. London: Boosey & Co, 1913.

TC:

Frances Tolmie. [Collection of One Hundred and Five Songs of Occupation], Journal of the Folk-Song Society, No. 16 (1911). London.

TGSG:

Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Glasgow

TGSI:

Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness

TLPM:

Donald Campbell. A Treatise on the Language, Poetry and Music of the Highland Clans. Edinburgh: D. R. Collie & Son, 1862.

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