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Author : Màiri Nic a' Phearsain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Mairi Mhor Nan Oran written by Màiri Nic a' Phearsain and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mairi Nic a' Phearsain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Mairi Mhor Nan Oran written by Mairi Nic a' Phearsain and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glanville Price
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780861402489
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Celtic Connection written by Glanville Price and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1992 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Editor points out, the Celtic identity is not one of race - the genetic links, if they are there at all, just cannot be proved - but it is of a common linguistic and cultural heritage. The Celtic Connection focuses on the similarities and differences in language across the Celtic nations and contributes to the resurgence of interest in the Celtic identity which is increasingly being supported by official bodies, both national and international.
Author : Rob Gibson
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913025853
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Highland Clearances Trail written by Rob Gibson and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Highland Clearances Trail answers the where, why, what and whens of the Highland Clearances. Taking you around the significant sites of the Highland Clearances this vivid guide gives a scholarly introduction to a tragic moment in Scotland's history. Perthshire, Ross-Shire, Arran, Sutherland and Caithness are among the many areas covered. With full background information supplied, along with maps and illustrations, The Highland Clearances Trail provides an alternative route around the Highlands that will leave the reader with a deeper understanding of this sublime landscape.
Author : Catherine Kerrigan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474469795
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Anthology of Scottish Women Poets written by Catherine Kerrigan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than one hundred poets are brought together in this unique anthology, encompassing work from the Middle Ages to the present day in Gaelic, Scots and English. The introduction provides the background and context to the different traditions in Scotland including the oral/ballad, Gaelic bardic and modern tradition and attempts to identify recurrent themes.
Author : David Ross
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788850874
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Highland Herald written by David Ross and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1988 to 2017 David Ross was the Highland Correspondent of The Herald. His patch stretched from the Mull of Kintyre in the south to the Shetland island of Unst in the north; and from St Kilda, in the West, to the whisky country of Speyside in the east. From his home on the Black Isle he covered all the big stories, from the fight against a nuclear waste dump in Caithness to plans to remove half a mountain on the island of Harris. He helped the first community land buyout in modern times in Assynt, covered in depth the anti-toll campaign on the Skye Bridge, the efforts to save Gaelic and protect ferry services. In Highland Herald he reflects on the important issues which affected the Highlands and Islands during his time. He tells how his late father-in-law, the Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean, helped him. He had never written in depth about Sorley when he was alive, as it would have been 'excruciatingly embarrassing for both of us', but does so now.
Author : June Skinner Sawyers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781580510943
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Praying with Celtic Saints, Prophets, Martyrs, and Poets written by June Skinner Sawyers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Celtic tradition has taken the modern world by storm. Over the past decade seekers have collected all things Celtic-books, art, music, toys, clothing. But how much of it is authentic or lasting? In this highly distinctive book, June Sawyers has culled from a diverse pool of sources to offer readers a weekly dose of Celtic wisdom and witness. Beyond the famous trio of Patrick, Brigid, and Brendan, contemporary seekers will find kindred souls in famous and not-so-famous saints, prophets, martyrs, and poets who make up the fabric of the Celtic tradition. This book features short entries describing the lives, temptations, insights, and struggles of Celtic saints but also Celtic prophets, martyrs, and poets. Arranged weekly by either feast day, birth date, date of death, or alphabetically, each selection is preceded by a quotation from or about the saint, prophet, martyr, or poet and concludes with a thought to ponder. When appropriate, each entry is accompanied by a descriptive listing ofsignificant sacred sites, museums, or other important landmarks. From Patrick and Columba to Seamus Heaney and William Butler Yeats, this is a timeless and timely, practical and wise book. Use it as your spiritual guide throughout the year.
Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857908340
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book On the Other Side of Sorrow written by James Hunter and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary intellectual voyage” through Gaelic environmental awareness, centuries ahead of its time, and its value today (The Herald). Caring for the environment, developing rural communities, and ensuring the survival of minority cultures are all laudable objectives, but they can conflict, and nowhere more so than the Scottish Highlands. As environmentalists strive to preserve the scenery and wildlife of the Highlands, the people who belong there, and who have their own claims on the landscape, question this new threat to their culture, which dates back thousands of years. In this sensitive, thought-provoking book, James Hunter probes deep into this culture to examine the dispute between Highlanders, who developed a strong environmental awareness a thousand years before other Europeans, and conservationists, whose thinking owes much to the romantic ideals of the nineteenth century. More than that, he also suggests a new way of dealing with the problem, advocating drastic land-use changes and the repopulation of empty glens—an approach that has worldwide implications. “A very thoughtful piece of advocacy.” —The Scotsman
Author : Iain Crichton Smith
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857907271
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book The Dream written by Iain Crichton Smith and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the grey streets of Glasgow, Martin is dreaming of the mist-shrouded islands of his youth. Behind her desk in the travel agency his wife Jean dreams of faraway places in the sun that beckon from the brochures. Their marriage frays in the silence as Martin clings to the Gaelic he teaches at the university, the dwindling bedrock of the culture of the isles, while Jean refuses to speak a language that brings back memories of the bitter years of her childhood. While Jean chatters with her friends of relationships and resentments, Martin turns to Gloria who seems to share his dream of the islands of the Gael... Iain Crichton Smith's The Dream explores the precarious survival of a modern marriage with a poet's lean, evocative precision and all the spellbinding authority of a master storyteller in the time-honoured Celtic tradition.
Author : Sharon Macdonald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000184587
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Reimagining Culture written by Sharon Macdonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s, policies to 'revive' minority cultures and languages have flourished. But what does it mean to have a 'cultural identity'? And are minorities as deeply attached to their languages and traditions as revival policies suppose? This book is a sophisticated analysis of responses to the 'Gaelic renaissance' in a Scottish Hebridean community. Its description of everyday conceptions of belonging and interpretations of cultural policy takes us into the world of Gaelic playgroups, crofting, local history, religion and community development. Historically and theoretically informed, this book challenges many of the ways in which we conventionally think about ethnic and national identity. This accessible and engaging account of life in this remote region of Europe provides an original and timely contribution to questions of considerable currency in a broad range of social science disciplines.
Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780570139
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Skye written by James Hunter and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skye, with its soaring peaks, sea-battered coastline and sometimes savage storms, is one of the most beautiful parts of Britain. To the people who live there, it is simply an t-eilean, the island, and it occupies an almost mythical place in the minds of many Scots. Written by a man who lives and works there, Skye: The Island marks a departure in books about the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Without sentimentalising or romanticising, it portrays Skye as it really is; evocative, moving, committed, passionate and hopeful, it is the best book you will read about the island.
Author : Ciaran Cronin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405123184
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Victorian Poetry written by Ciaran Cronin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts. Explores the relationships between work by different poets Recalls attention to a considerable body of poetry that has fallen into neglect Essays are informed by recent developments in textual and cultural theory Considers Victorian women poets in every chapter
Author : Gail Chester
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415638291
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)
Download or read book In Other Words written by Gail Chester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for all women writers, professional, amateur or aspiring, in which forty women talk about writing and the part it plays in their lives. Self-discovery, work, personal liberation, communication, hope for change - all these motives inspire these short and direct personal statements. The contributors come from very different backgrounds: some, like Sara Maitland, Rosemary Manning, Anna Livia, Suniti Namjoshi, are well known. Others are unpublished. In Other Words will provide practical support and encouragement for any woman who writes.
Author : Patrick Sims-Williams
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
ISBN 13 : 9780952747857
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Crossing Boundaries written by Patrick Sims-Williams and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2007 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress lectures: JAVIER DE HOZ, The Mediterranean Frontier of the Celts and the Advent of Celtic Writing; MARK REDKNAP, Crossing Boundaries-Stylistic Diversity and External Contacts in Early Medieval Wales and the March: Reflections on Metalwork and Sculpture; MAIRE HERBERT, Crossing Historical and Literary Boundaries: Irish Written Culture Around the Year 1000; MAIRIN NI DHONNCHADHA, Seeing Things: Revelation in Gaelic Literature; JERRY HUNTER, Llywelyn's Breath, Arthur's Nightmare: The Medievalism within Welsh ModernismRONALD BLACK, How Wrong Can We Be? Peering into the Future of Scottish Gaelic Literature."
Author : Dauvit Broun
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788853962
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Image and Identity written by Dauvit Broun and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at the way that perceptions of Scottish identity have changed through the centuries, from early medieval to modern times. 'The idea of Scotland as a single country, corresponding to the realm of the king of Scots, and of the Scots as all the kingdom's inhabitants, may only have taken root during the 13th century.' – Dauvit Broun 'The 18th century is marked by a period of often competing Scottish identities, and the emergence of the British state as a complicating factor in the equation.' – R. J. Finlay 'Scottish identity has never been a fixed, immutable idea, whether held in the head or in the gut . . . some of the most enduring myths of Scotland's Protestant identity were, like Ireland's Catholic identity, creations of the 19th century: they included Jenny Geddes as a Protestant Dame Scotia, throwing a stool into the works of an Anglican-style church, and the Magdalen Chapel in Edinburgh, the home of a staunchly Catholic graft guild throughout much of the 1560s becoming the "workshop of the Reformation" in John Knox's time.' – Michael Lynch
Author : Louisa Gairn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748631984
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Ecology and Modern Scottish Literature written by Louisa Gairn and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a provocative and timely reconsideration of modern Scottish literature in the light of ecological thought. Louisa Gairn demonstrates how successive generations of Scottish writers have both reflected on and contributed to the development of international ecological theory and philosophy. Provocative re-readings of works by authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, John Muir, Nan Shepherd, John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie and George Mackay Brown demonstrate the significance of ecological thought across the spectrum of Scottish literary culture. This book traces the influence of ecology as a scientific, philosophical and political concept in the work of these and other writers and in doing so presents an original outlook on Scottish literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
Author : Gerda Stevenson
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1912387786
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Quines written by Gerda Stevenson and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singers, politicians, a fish-gutter, queens, a dancer, a marine engineer, a salt seller, sportswomen, scientists and many more – Quines celebrates and explores the richly diverse contribution women have made to Scottish history and society.
