Sguel Gaidhlig | the Gaelic Story at the University of Glasgow
Published: 5 September 2023
Professor Roibeard O Maolalaigh, Dr. Kathering Forsyth, and Dr. Aonghas MacCoinnich
An ongoing project led by Professor Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh, Dr Katherine Forsyth and with Dr Aonghas MacCoinnich as main researcher, explores the history of Gaelic and Gaels at the University of Glasgow. Gaels have been present at the University since its foundation in 1451 both as students and as members of staff. Gaelic however, was not taught at the University as a subject which contributed to an MA degree until session 1906-1907. This project examines aspects of the story of Gaels and Gaelic connected to the University over the longer period as well as Gaelic as a subject, under the auspices of Celtic, at the University
A variety of pages on this website aims not only to explore the process by which Celtic and Gaelic came to be taught at the University of Glasgow in the century since the first Celtic lecture in 1901 and the establishment of Celtic as a subject of study in 1906 but also to investigate the largely forgotten experience of Gaelic speakers at the University over the first four and a half centuries, 1451-1901.
First published: 5 September 2023
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