Cànan & CultarWilson McLeod, James Earle Fraser, Anja Gunderloch Dunedin Academic Press, 2006 - 294 pages This volume is a collection of proceedings from the third Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference held in Edinburgh in July 2004. The book includes papers on Scottish Gaelic history, language, literature, and culture from early Christian times to the present. In addition to Scotland, there is material relating to Ireland, Scandinavia, England, and Canada. Where papers are written in Gaelic, a detailed synopsis in English is included. |
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... appears in a poem to Raghnall Mac Domhnaill ( † 1636 ) , first earl of Antrim , and the third in another poem for ... appear isolated and vague , with no intimation of the patrons as banishers of the foreigners ; this would suggest that ...
... appears in a poem to Raghnall Mac Domhnaill ( † 1636 ) , first earl of Antrim , and the third in another poem for ... appear isolated and vague , with no intimation of the patrons as banishers of the foreigners ; this would suggest that ...
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... appears to have been merely rhetorical.50 There is no historical evidence that at any time any of the chiefs eulogised in this manner had any serious claim to the sovereignty of the Gaels . The same rhetorical nature must be understood ...
... appears to have been merely rhetorical.50 There is no historical evidence that at any time any of the chiefs eulogised in this manner had any serious claim to the sovereignty of the Gaels . The same rhetorical nature must be understood ...
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... appear to be the poetry for the Mac Domhnaill branch of Islay and Antrim , in which the powerful motif of prophecy also appears . Only in the poems composed for this sept do we find these motifs developed in the way that we could call ...
... appear to be the poetry for the Mac Domhnaill branch of Islay and Antrim , in which the powerful motif of prophecy also appears . Only in the poems composed for this sept do we find these motifs developed in the way that we could call ...
Contents
Contextualising the Duan Albanach | 11 |
Literary Lochlann | 25 |
Kingship imagery in Classical Gaelic panegyric for Scottish chiefs | 39 |
Copyright | |
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