Celtic & Gaelic Research

PhD:

• Myra Booth-Cockcroft, Examining patron and scribal tastes: the historical context of Llyfr Goch Hergest
• Saga Crawford, Manipulators, Madmen, and Movers of Stories: The Tricksters of Medieval Irish Literature
• Heather Ford, Appealing to the Past in Uncertain Times: an interdisciplinary study of the reuse and evocation of prehistoric standing stones in the monumental epigraphy of early medieval Scotland.
• Joan Marie Gallagher, Chwedyl Iarlles y Ffynnawn as a ‘native' tale: exploring Chwedyl Iarlles y Ffynnawn in its literary, social and manuscript context
• Gwen Jones-Edward, The end of the Kingdom of Strathclyde: what happened to the Britons and who were the Lennox who succeeded them?
• Korpi Kardell, A Scottish Gaelic Translation of 'Röde Orm'
• Brittnee Leysen, Introduced Pakeha place-names in New Zealand's Otago region
• Amy McLaughlan, The Female Body in Medieval Welsh Literature and Law
• Robbie MacLeod, Gendered loves in early Gaelic literature
• Elena Orpianesi, The lost manuscript culture of early medieval Scotland and Man: the evidence of  Early Medieval Manx and Scottish Latinate Inscriptions (EMMSLI)
• Kathleen Reddy, Dia leam / God with me: vernacular religious practice in Catholic Gaelic communities
• Gemma Smith, Shieling landscapes of North West Sutherland: people, place and ecology
• Margaret Stewart, Air an Àirigh: Coimhearsnachd, Caitheamh-Beatha is Mòinteach Nis - Air an Àirigh / At the Shieling: Community, memory and the North Lewis moors
• Eleanor Thomson, The Grand Old Man’ of Gaelic letters. Calum MacPhàrlain and the Celtic Revival in Scotland, c. 1891-1930

Some theses produced by researchers in Celtic and Gaelic include the undernoted, which are all available from the Glasgow Theses Service:-

• 'The relic cult of St Patrick between the seventh and the late twelfth centuries in its European contexts: A focus on the lives'
• 'Gaelic place-names and the social history of Gaelic speakers in medieval Menteith'
• 'Innis-na-Fìrinne: Dòmhnall Mac-na Ceàrdaich (1885-1932) agus a obair fhoillsichte'

PhD

• Danielle Fatzingher (2021) Eoghan MacGilleoin, Mr Lachlann Campbell, and Col. Cailean Campbell: Manuscript production in Kintyre c. 1690-1698
• Carolyn McNamara (2021) Tracing the Community of Comgall across the North Channel: an interdisciplinary investigation of Early Medieval monasteries at Bangor, Applecross, Lismore, and Tiree
• Cynthia Thickpenny (2019) Making key pattern in Insular art: AD 600-1100
• Ruairidh Maciver (2018) The Gaelic Poet and the British military experience, 1756-1856
• Martin Maher (2018)  The death of Finn mac Cumaill
• Sofia Evemalm (2018) Theory and practice in the coining and transmission of place-names: a study of the Norse and Gaelic anthropo-toponyms of Lewis
• Max Quaintmere (2018) Aspects of memory in medieval Irish literature
• Alasdair Whyte (2017) Place-Names of Torosay (Killean) Parish, Mull
• Andrew McQuaid (2017) Advice for kings: an investigation into a subdivision of early Irish wisdom literature
• Veronika Csonka (2016) Compound words in Scottish Gaelic
• Susan Ross (2016) The standardisation of Scottish Gaelic orthography 1750-2007: a corpus approach 
• David Cochran-Yu (2016) A keystone of contention: the evolution of the Earldom of Ross
• Guto Rhys (2015) Approaching the Pictish language: historiography, early evidence and the question of Pritenic
• Nicola Carty (2015) Slighean gu fileantas: an exploratory study of the nature of proficiency in adult L2 Scottish Gaelic
• Angus MacLeod (2015) 20th Century Gaelic Poems in their Literary, Sociolinguistic and Political Contexts
• Anne Paton (2015) An examination of the evidence for the existence of leprosy and Hansen's Disease in medieval Ireland
• Peter Drummond (2014) An analysis of toponyms and toponymic patterns in eight parishes of the upper Kelvin basin
• Catriona Gray (2013) The bishopric of Brechin and church organisation in Angus and the Mearns in the central Middle Ages
• Claire Nance (2013) Phonetic variation, sound change, and identity in Scottish Gaelic
• Elin Eyjólfsdóttir (2012) The Bórama : the poetry and the hagiography in the Book of Leinster
• Sarah Erskine (2011) The relic cult of St Patrick between the seventh and the late twelfth centuries in its European contexts : a focus on the lives
• Sìm Innes (2010) Cràbhachd do Mhoire Òigh air a' Ghàidhealtachd sna meadhan-aoisean anmoch, le aire shònraichte do Leabhar Deadhan Lios Mòir
• Julia Kühns (2009) The pre-19th-century manuscript tradition and textual transmission of the Early Modern Irish tale Oidheadh Con Culainn:  a preliminary study
• Janet MacDonald (2010) Iona's local associations in Argyll and the Isles, c1203-c1575
• Peter McNiven (2011) Gaelic place-names and the social history of Gaelic speakers in medieval Menteith
• Claire Nance (2013) Phonetic variation, sound change, and identity in Scottish Gaelic
• Cassie Smith-Christmas (2012) “I've lost it here dè a bh' agam”: Language shift, maintenance, and code-switching in a bilingual family

MPhil by Research

• Viktoria Marker (2019) Litreachas na Gàidhlig à Sealann Nuadh
• Manon Thuillier (2019) The Welsh Hymn to the Virgin: contexts and reception
• Emma Anderson (2014) The South Harris machair: sources and settlements
• Niall Bartlett (2014) The First World War and the 20th century in the history of Gaelic Scotland: a preliminary analysis
• Stuart Harris-Logan (2007) Nuair a bha Gàidhlig aig na h-eòin : an investigation into the art and artifice of avifaunal mimesis as a mode of artistic expression in Gaelic oral culture from the seventeenth century to the present 
• Aonghas MacLeòid (2012) Innis-na-Fìrinne : Dòmhnull Mac-na-Ceàrdaich (1885-1932) agus a obair fhoillsichte
• Ciorstaidh NicLeòid (2012) Briathrachas an iasgaich ann an Eilean Bharraigh
• Linda NicLeòid (2012) Baird agus bana-bhaird a' Bhaile Shear thairis air an 19mh linn agus an 20mh linn: orain is dain neo-fhoillsichte agus an co-theacsa

MLitt by Research

• Gordon MacKenzie (2018) Minority language media, status planning & linguistic attitudes in Scotland: the sociolinguistic impact of the Gaelic television channel - BBC Alba

Master by Research (MRes)

• Isla Parker (2022) 'Muc Dhearg!’ ors’ ise: Women and Gaelic storytelling in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland c.1850-c.1980
• Victoria McCormack (2022) An interdisciplinary study of the ecclesiastical centre of Abernethy before the early thirteenth century 
• David Mandic (2021) Glottalisation in Scottish Gaelic
• Erin Burrows (2021) Subjective constructions: Medieval and modern perceptions of women and women warriors in Early and Middle Irish legal and literary texts
• Zhi-En Loo (2020) Faireachadh is Fèin-sgrìobhadh: Late 20th century and early 21st century Scottish Gaelic autobiographies as loci of emotional practices