Research

Members of the Celtic & Gaelic Subject have worked and are working on a wide range of projects in the following fields:

Early medieval literature and history

    * the early history and poetry of the monastery of Iona
    * an anthology in translation of the poetry of Scotland, 550–1350
    * place-names in the poetry of the Northern Britons
    * the history of Scotland AD 400–1100
    * Christianity in early medieval Scotland
    * early Gaelic women poets
    * fools in early Irish texts
    * medieval Irish voyage tales
    * early Irish narrative poetry
    * the social setting of the Ulster Cycle
    * an introductory reader of Medieval Welsh
    * Pictish language and culture
    * early Christian inscribed stones of Munster
    * place-names as a historical resource

Scottish Gaelic and Modern Irish literature

    * an edition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish poems
    * the prose writings of the Rev. Alexander MacGregor
    * the work of John MacCormick
    * the dialogue in Gaelic literary tradition
    * the Gaelic proverb
    * Gaelic journalism
    * Gaelic heroic ballads
    * Oral tradition of Gaelic Scotland
    * Oral transmission of Gaelic prose and verse texts
    * twentieth-century Scottish Gaelic poetry
    * George Campbell Hay
    * early modern Gaelic literature

Language, teaching, and linguistics

    * on-line dictionaries for modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic
    * the Linguistic Survey of Scottish Gaelic
    * a Welsh spell-checker
    * Gaelic and Irish dialectology
    * Scottish Gaelic grammar
    * aspects of IT and Gaelic teaching
    * history of Gaelic lexicography

Staff are involved in co-operative projects of both academic and public varieties, including the provision of Computer-Assisted Learning for Gaelic,
the Gaelic Linguistic Survey, and on a Gaelic grammar for schools.