Gaelic literature of Skye: books, pamphlets, articles A-L

Gaelic Literature of the Isle of Skye: an annotated bibliography

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AITCHISON, James (joint ed.). See: Alexander Scott and James Aitchison.

AITKEN, Adam J., Matthew P. McDiarmid and Derick S. Thomson (1977). Bards and Makars: Scottish Language and Literature, Medieval and Renaissance. Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press.

AMANNAN: Sgialachdan Goirid (1979). [Duneidinn]: U & R Chambers.

AM MEASG nam Bodach (1938). Glaschu: An Comunn Gaidhealach.

BASSIN, Ethel (1977). The Old Songs of Skye: Frances Tolmie and Her Circle. Edited by Derek Bownam. London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

BATEMAN, Meg and Anne Loughran (2014) (eds). Bàird Ghleann Dail: the Glendale Bards. Edited by Meg Bateman, with Anne Loughran. Edinburgh: John Donald.

BETHUNE-BAKER, Alfred A. (ed.). See: Thomas Whyte.

BLACK, Ronald:

(1976-8). ‘The Genius of Cathal MacMhuirich’, TGSI, 50:327-366.

(1999). An Tuil: Anthology of 20th Century Scottish Gaelic Verse. Edinburgh: Polygon. (repr. 2002).

(2005) (ed.) The Gaelic otherworld : John Gregorson Campbell’s Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and Witchcraft and second sight in the Highlands and Islands.

Edinburgh: Birlinn.

BLANKENHORN, Virginia (1978). ‘Traditional and Bogus Elements in MacCrimmon’s Lament’, Scottish Studies, 22:45-67.

BOCHANAN, Dùghall (1946). Dàin Spioradail le Dùghall Bochanan: The Spiritual Songs of Dugald Buchanan. Glasgow: Alex. MacLaren & Sons. [1st edition 1767].

BOWMAN, Derek (ed.). See: Ethel Bassin.

BRUFORD, Alan (1969). Gaelic Folk-tales and Mediaeval Romances. Dublin: The Folklore of Ireland Society.

BUCHANAN, Dugald. See: Dùghall Bochanan.

BUDGE, Donald. See: Domhnall Buidse.

BUIDSE, Domhnall:

(1961). Donald Budge. The Skye Lochinvar. Glasgow: John Smith.

(1971-72). ‘Bàird an Eilean Sgiathanaich: Domhnull MacLeòid, “Domhnull nan Oran” ‘, TGSI, 47:392-403.

(1973). ‘Beathag Mhór, Bana Bhàrd Sgiathanach’, TGSI, 48:371-381.

(1974). ‘Bàird an Eilean Sgiathanaich: Clann-an-Aba, ~Thròdairnis’, TGSI, 48:584-601.

CALDER, George (ed.). See: James MacDougall.

CAMERON, Alexander (1871). History and Traditions of the Isle of Skye. Inverness: E. Forsyth.

CAMERON, Alexander (1894). Reliquiae Celticae. Edited by Alexander MacBain and Rev. John Kennedy. Vol. 2. Inverness: Northern Counties.

CAMERON, Malcolm. See: Calum Camshron.

CAMPBELL, Alexander (1816, 1818) (ed.). Albyn’s Anthology. Two vols. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.

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

CAMPBELL, J. F:

(1872). Leabhar na Feinne. Vol. 1. London: Spottiswoode & Co. for the author [repr. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1972]

(1890). Popular Tales of the West Highlands. Second edition. Vol. 1. Paisley and London: Alexander Gardner. [repr. Hounslow: Wildwood House, 1983]

(1890). Popular Tales of the West Highlands. Second edition. Vol. 2. Paisley and London: Alexander Gardner. [repr. Hounslow: Wildwood House, 1983]

(1892). Popular Tales of the West Highlands. Second edition. Vol. 3. Paisley and London: Alexander Gardner. [repr. Hounslow: Wildwood House, 1984]

(1893). Popular Tales of the West Highlands. Second edition. Vol. 4. Paisley and London: Alexander Gardner. [repr. Hounslow: Wildwood House, 1984

See also: J. G. MacKay (ed.)

CAMPBELL, John Gregorson:

(1895). Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition. No. 5. Edited by Jessie Wallace and Duncan MacIsaac. London: David Nutt.

(1900). Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. See above: Black 2005.

(1902) Witchcraft and second sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. [See above: Black 2005]

CAMPBELL, J. L:

(1968). ‘Notes on the Poems ascribed to Mary MacLeod in D. C. MacPherson’s Duanaire’, Scottish Gaelic Studies, 11. Part 2: 171-191.

(1978). ‘Notes on Hamish Robertson’s “Studies in Carmichael’s Carmina Gadelica” ‘, Scottish Gaelic Studies, 13. Part 1:1-17.

(1984). Canna: the Story of a Hebridean Island. Oxford: OUP for the National Trust for Scotland.

CAMPBELL, J. L., & Francis Collinson (ed. & transcriber):

(1969). Hebridean Folksongs. Oxford: Clarendon.

(1977). Hebridean Folksongs II. Oxford: Clarendon.

(1981). Hebridean Folksongs III. Oxford: Clarendon.

CAMSHRON, Calum (1962). ‘Eilean Shòthaidh’, An Gaidheal, 57:75-77.

CARMICHAEL, Alexander:

(1900). Carmina Gadelica. Vol. 1. Edinburgh: T & A Constable for the author [2nd edition. Edinburgh & London: Oliver & Boyd, 1928]

(1900). Carmina Gadelica. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: T & A Constable for the author [2nd edition. Edinburgh & London: Oliver & Boyd, 1928]

(1940). Carmina Gadelica. Vol. 3. Edited by James Carmichael Watson. Edinburgh & London: Oliver & Boyd.

(1941). Carmina Gadelica. Vol. 4. Edited by James Carmichael Watson. Edinburgh & London: Oliver & Boyd.

(1954). Carmina Gadelica. Vol. 5. Edited by Angus Matheson. Edinburgh & London: Oliver & Boyd.

(1971). Carmina Gadelica. Vol. 6. Edited by Angus Matheson. Edinburgh & London: Scottish Academic Press.

(1992) Carmina Gadelica. One volume edition, with introduction by John MacInnes. Edinburgh: Floris Books.

CARNEY, James (1968) (ed.). Celtic Studies: essays in memory of Angus Matheson. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

A’ CHOISIR-Chiùil: the St. Columba Collection of Gaelic Songs. (n.d.). Paisley: J & R Parlane.

CHRISTIANSEN, Reidar Th. (joint author). See: Sean Ó Suilleabhain, & Reidar Th. Christianson.

CO-CHRUINNEACHADH de dh’ Oranan Taoghta (1836). Glasgow: Duncan MacVean.

CO-CHRUINNEACHADH Nuadh do dh’ Orannibh Gaidhealach (1806). Inbhirneis: Eoin Young.

COISIR a’ Mhòid I: the Mod Collection of Gaelic Part Songs 1896-1912 (n.d.). Glasgow: Alex. MacLaren & Sons for An Comunn Gaidhealach.

COISIR a’ Mhòid II: the Mod Collection of Gaelic Part Songs 1913-1923 (n.d.). Glasgow: Alex. MacLaren & Sons for An Comunn Gaidhealach.

COLLINSON, Francis (1966). The Traditional and National Music of Scotland. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

See also: J. L. Campbell & Francis Collinson.

COOPER, Derek (1983). Skye Remembered. Skye: West Highland Publishing Co.

CRAIG, K. C. (1949). Orain Luaidh Mhàiri Nighean Alasdair. Air an cruinneachadh le K. C. Craig. Glasgow: Alasdair Matheson for K. C. Craig.

CREIGHTON, Helen and Calum MacLeod (1964). Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia. Ottawa: Dept. of the Secretary of State.

‘DAILEACH’ (1919). ‘Gearradh Cainnte’, An Deò-Gréine, 14: 75.

DARLING, F. Fraser (1955). West Highland Survey: an Essay in Human Ecology. Oxford: OUP.

DEVLIN, Brendan P. See: Breandan P. Ó Doibhlin.

DILLON, Myles (1948). Early Irish Literature. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press.

DOMHNALLACH, Domhnall Eairdsidh (ed.). See: Pàdruig Moireasdan.

DOMHNALLACH, Eoin (1960). ‘Pìobairean an Eilein’, Gairm, 31:223-227.

DOMHNALLACH, Fionnlagh (1980). ‘Beatha air a cur gu feum na Gaidhealtachd’, North 7, 41:18-19.

DOMHNALLACH, Tormod:

(1965). ‘Dioghlum bho Achaidhean na Bàrdachd’, Gairm, 51:270-278; 52:316-323; 53:29-42.

(1966). Norman MacDonald. ‘Some Rare Hebridean Gaelic Words and Phrases’, Scottish Gaelic Studies, 11. Part 1:38-59.

(1968). ‘Sàr Bhàird am Beul-Aithris’, Gairm, 62:183-185.

(1971). ‘Aoirean agus Luinneagan Eibhinn’, Gairm, 76:299-319.

‘DOMHNALL Donn’. See: T. M. Murchison

DONNCHADH Bàn. See: Angus MacLeod (ed.)

DOWNIE, A. MacKenzie, and A. D. MacKinnon (1883). Genealogical Account of the Family of MacKinnon. Second edition. London: Edward Stanford.

D’OYLY, Baintighearna (1875). Orain Ghàidhlig. Glaschu: Gilleasbuig Mac-na-Ceardadh.

DUN, Finlay (c. 1848). Orain na h-Albain. Edinburgh: Wood & Co; Glasgow: J. Muir, Wood & Co; London: Cramer, Beale & Chappell.

FASTI Ecclesiae Scoticanae:

(1915). Hew Scott. New edition. Vol. 1. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.

(1917). Hew Scott. New edition. Vol. 2. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.

(1920). Hew Scott. New edition. Vol. 3. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.

(1923). Hew Scott. New edition. Vol. 4. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.

(1925). Hew Scott. New edition. Vol. 5. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.

(1926). Hew Scott. New edition. Vol. 6. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.

(1928). Hew Scott. New edition. Vol. 7. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.

(1950). Hew Scott. New edition. Vol. 8. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.

(1961). J. A. Lamb (ed.). Vol. 9. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.

(1981). D. F. M. MacDonald (ed.). Vol. 9. Edinburgh: St. Andrew Press.

FERGUSSON, Donald A. (ed.)

(1977). Fad air Falbh as Innse Gall …: Beyond the Hebrides. Halifax, Nova Scotia: For the editor.

(1978). From the Farthest Hebrides: Bho na h-Innse Gall as Iomallaiche. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada.

FILIDH nam Beann: the Mountain Songster. (n.d.). Glasgow: Archibald Sinclair

‘FIONN’ Henry Whyte:

(1881). The Celtic Garland. Glasgow: Archibald Sinclair.

(1893-94). ‘Lament for Rory Mor MacLeod, 1626’, Celtic Monthly, 2: 51-53.

(1908). ‘The MacLeods of Morvern’, Celtic Monthly, 16:145-46.

FOLK-Song Society Journal. See: Frances Tolmie.

FORBES, Alexander Robert (1923). Place-names of Skye and Adjacent Islands. Paisley: Alexander Gardner.

FRASER, S. (1816) (ed.). The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles. Edinburgh: For the editor.

GILLIES, Archibald. See: Iain Morastan and Gilleasbuig Mac-Gill’ Iosa.

GILLIES, John (1786) (ed.). A Collection of Ancient and Modern Gaelic Poems and Songs. Perth: Printed for John Gillies, Bookseller.

‘GLASRACH’ (1875). ‘Na Trì Coin air Lomhainn’, An Gaidheal, 4: 115-119.

‘GLEANNACH’. See: Alexander MacDonald.

GORDON, James (1938). ‘Cloud over Soay’, Scots Magazine, 28: 175-85.

GRANND, Domhnall (1971). Tir an Aigh. Glaschu: Gairm.

GRANT, Alasdair (1969). ‘A Study of the Origins of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s Songs of the Hebrides, Vol. 1’, [Unpublished Dissertation, University of

Aberdeen, Dept. of Celtic.

GRANT, I. F. (1959). The MacLeods: the History of a Clan 1200-1956. London: Faber & Faber.

HENDERSON, George (1911). ‘Làmh-sgrìobhainnean Mhic-Neacail’, TGSI, 27: 340-409.

HERDMAN, John (1977). ‘The Poetry of Sorley MacLean: a non-Gael’s View’, Lines Review, 61: 25-36.

HICKSON, Mary (1884). Ireland in the Seventeenth Century. Vol. 1. London: Longman & Co.

HIGHLAND Society of Scotland (1805). Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the Poems of Ossian. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co.

HOLLO, Kaarina (joint editor). See: Sharon Arbuthnot and Kaarina Hollo

HUNTER, James (1976). The Making of the Crofting Community. Edinburgh: John Donald.

IAIN Lom. See: Annie M. MacKenzie (ed.).

The INVERNESS Collection of Highland Pibrochs, Laments, Quicksteps, Marches [n.d.]. Inverness & Aberdeen: Logan & Co.

KENNEDY, John (ed.). See: Alexander Cameron (1894).

KENNEDY -Fraser, Marjory (1929). A Life of Song. London: OUP.

KENNEDY -Fraser, Marjory, and Kenneth MacLeod (eds.):

(1909). Songs of the Hebrides. London: Boosey & Co.

(1913). Sea-Tangle: Some More Songs of the Hebrides London: Boosey & Co.

(1917). Songs of the Hebrides. Second volume. London: Boosey & Co.

(1921). Songs of the Hebrides. Third volume. London: Boosey & Co.

(1925). From the Hebrides. Glasgow: Paterson’s Publications.

(n. d.). More Songs of the Hebrides. London: Boosey & Co. (post-1927 publication, see: Bassin 1977:185).

KER, W. P. (1928). Form and Style in Poetry. London: Macmillan & Co.

KERRIGAN, Catherine (1991) (ed.). An Anthology of Scottish Women Poets. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

KNOTT, Eleanor (1974). An Introduction to Irish Syllabic Poetry of the Period 1200-1600. Second edition. Dublin: Institute for Advanced Studies.

LAMB, John Alexander (ed.). See: Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticane.

LAMONT, D. (1913). Strath: in Isle of Skye. Glasgow: Archibald Sinclair.

LAMONT, Donald (1960). The Prose Writings of Donald Lamont 1874-1958. Edited by Thomas M. Murchison. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd for the SGTS.

LAW, T. S., and Thurso Berwick (1973) (eds.). Homage to John MacLean. Thurso: The John MacLean Society.

LINDSAY, Maurice (ed.).

(1946). Modern Scottish Poetry. London: Faber & Faber.

(1966). Modern Scottish Poetry. 2nd ed. London: Faber & Faber.

(1976). Modern Scottish Poetry. 3rd ed. Manchester: Carcanet.

LOUGHRAN, Anne:

(1986). ‘C’àit an caidil an nighneag an nochd?: an early nineteenth-century Skye song’, Scottish Gaelic Studies 14, Part 2: 44-50.

(1988). ‘Some further notes on C’àit an caidil an nighneag an nochd?, Scottish Gaelic Studies 15, 153-154.

(2006). ‘Iain Og Moraidh and his song: a nineteenth century enigma’, Scottish Gaelic Studies 22: 161-186.