Dr Michel Byrne MA (Edin), Ph.D. (Edin)
Lecturer
Contact: Michel.Byrne@glasgow.ac.uk
Research interests
- Gaelic medium education
- 20th-21st century Gaelic literature (principally poetry)
- Early modern and modern Gaelic literature
- Language teaching
Current Research Interests
- George Campbell Hay
- Modern Gaelic Fiction
Publications
- ‘Monsters and goddesses: the poetry of Aonghas MacNeacaill and Ruaraidh MacThomais’, in The Edinburgh history of Scottish Literature, ed. Ian Brown (et. al.) vol. 3 ( Edinburgh: EUP, 2006).
- Michel Byrne, Thomas Owen Clancy and Sheila M. Kidd (eds) Litreachas & Eachdraidh: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 2; Literature and History: Papers from the second conference of Scottish Gaelic Studies, Glasgow, 2002 (Glasgow: Department of Celtic, 2006) ISBN 0-903204-22-3
- Modern Scottish Women Poets , ed. Dorothy MacMillan and Michel Byrne (Edinburgh: Canongate 2003)
- Gràmar na Gàidhlig (Cearsiadar: Stòrlann-Acair 2002)
- Facal air an Fhacal (Stornoway: Acair 2000) (Gaelic-language grammar, for S1-S2 pupils and teachers.)
- The Collected Poems and Songs of George Campbell Hay (Edinburgh: EUP 1999 and 2003)
- "Lost and Found: The George Campbell Hay Archive", Folio 3 (NLS)
- "Na Baird is am Baile Mòr", in Glaschu: Baile nan Gàidheal, ed. SM Kidd ( Glasgow: Department of Celtic, 2007).
- "Cò leis a' mhuir? Mac Iain Dheòrsa agus Coinneach MacLeòid", in Aiste 1 (2007).
- "Tails o the Comet? MacLean, Hay, Young and MacDiarmid's Renaissance", Scotlit 26 (Association for Scottish Literary Studies)