Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness

Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness
Title Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness PDF eBook
Author Inverness Gaelic Society
Publisher
Pages 392
Release 1966
Genre Celts
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Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness

Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness
Title Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness PDF eBook
Author Inverness Gaelic Society
Publisher
Pages 156
Release 1872
Genre Celts
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Transactions

Transactions
Title Transactions PDF eBook
Author Inverness Gaelic Society
Publisher
Pages 154
Release 1873
Genre Celtic literature
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Highlanders

Highlanders
Title Highlanders PDF eBook
Author James MacKillop
Publisher McFarland
Pages 283
Release 2024-01-04
Genre History
ISBN 1476693129

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Rebellion was recurrent in the Highlands because the Gaels (Scoti) were an often-oppressed indigenous minority in the nation, Scotland, to which they gave their name. They spoke a language, Gaelic, few outsiders would learn, and had their own family and social system, the clans. Warfare was bloody, culminating in the catastrophe of Culloden Moor during the doomed quest to restore the Stuart kingship to all of Britain. Economic hardship, including the near-genocidal Clearances, in which tenant farmers were replaced with sheep, drove the Gaels from the glens and islands, so that most today live in the diaspora, including millions in North America. Although the Gaels lack a single genetic identity, they clearly draw from distinct roots in the Irish, Norse and Picts. Despite their hardship, the Gaels are also presented in romantic portrayals by the artistic elite of other nations. This book offers ways in which the reader might find roots and ancestry in unfamiliar terrain. Chapters discuss the landscape and language of the Highlanders, the rise of clans, feuds and invasions, and eventual emigration.

Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness

Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness
Title Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness PDF eBook
Author The Gaelic Society of Inverness
Publisher
Pages 544
Release 1918
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Warriors of the Word

Warriors of the Word
Title Warriors of the Word PDF eBook
Author Michael Newton
Publisher Birlinn
Pages 409
Release 2019-11-05
Genre History
ISBN 0857907670

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An enlightening illustrated overview of Gaelic culture and history in Scotland. Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: Bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and struggles for power; incantations invoked blessings and curses. Even in the present, Gaels strive to counteract centuries of misrepresentation of the Highlands as a backwater of barbarism without a valid story of its own to tell. Warriors of the Word offers a broad overview of Scottish Highland culture and history, bringing together rare and previously untranslated primary texts from scattered and obscure sources. Poetry, songs, tales, and proverbs, supplemented by the accounts of insiders and travelers, illuminate traditional ways of life, exploring such topics as folklore, music, dance, literature, social organization, supernatural beliefs, human ecology, ethnic identity, and the role of language. This range of materials allows Scottish Gaeldom to be described on its own terms and to demonstrate its vitality and wealth of renewable cultural resources—making this an essential compendium for scholars, students, and all enthusiasts of Scottish culture.

Gaelic Scotland

Gaelic Scotland
Title Gaelic Scotland PDF eBook
Author Charles W J Withers
Publisher Routledge
Pages 414
Release 2015-12-14
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317332806

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This book, originally published in 1988, examines the Highlands and Islands of Scotland over several centuries and charts their cultural transformation from a separate region into one where the processes of anglicisation have largely succeeded. It analyses the many aspects of change including the policies of successive governments, the decline of the Gaelic language, the depressing of much of the population into peasantry and the clearances.