Professor Sheila Kidd

  • Professor of Gaelic Literature and History (Celtic & Gaelic)

telephone: 01413305425
email: Sheila.Kidd@glasgow.ac.uk

R401 Level 4, Celtic & Gaelic, 3 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007

Research interests

Ùidhean Rannsachaidh | Research Interests

Gu ruige seo tha an rannsachadh agam air dèiligeadh ri litreachas Gàidhlig eadar an 18mh agus an 20mh linn agus ri cleachdadh cànain air a’ Ghàidhealtachd san 19mh linn. Tha an rannsachadh air litreachas air coimhead gu h-àraid air irisean Gàidhlig agus air colbhan Gàidhlig phàipearan-naidheachd bho dheireadh na 19mh linn le fòcas sònraichte air taobhan sòisealta agus eachdraidheil nan teascaichean a nochd annta. A bharrachd air sin, tha mi air obair a dhèanamh air litreachas nan eilthireach, an dà chùid ann an Alba agus ann an dùthchannan eile (Canada, Astràila, Sealann Nuadh, na h-Innseachan an Iar agus na h-Innseachan an Ear). Anns na beagan bhliadhnachan a dh’fhalbh tha mi air a bhith rannsachadh mar a chleachdadh Gàidhlig air a’ Ghàidhealtachd san 19mh linn, mar eisimpleir, a’ sgrùdadh sanasan-obrach a bha a’ sireadh dhaoine le Gàidhlig; a’ coimhead air àite na Gàidhlig ann an taighean-caothaich agus am measg an fheadhainn a bha ag obair leis na bochd; agus mar a chleachdadh Gàidhlig air beulaibh coimiseanan an riaghaltais anns na deicheadan mu dheireadh den an linn. Tha mi ag amas air dealbh nas coileanta a chruthachadh air cleachdadh na Gàidhlig agus seo mar adhbhar strì ann an cuid de shuidheachaidhean; agus tron a seo a bhith a’ soilleireachadh mar a bha cleachdadh cànain a’ buntainn ri dàimhean sòisealta agus ri cumhachd ann an Gàidhealtachd na 19mh linn.

Pròiseactan rannsachaidh air a bheil mi ag obair:

  • litreachas Gàidhlig ann am pàipearan-naidheachd bhon 19mh linn
  • òrain agus bàrdachd le boireannaich ann am pàipearan-naidheachd na 19mh linn
  • cleachdadh cànain air a’ Ghàidhealtachd san 19mh linn

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My research to date has dealt with Gaelic literature from the 18th to the 20th century and with the linguistic landscape of the 19th-century Highlands. My work on Gaelic literature has focused on the Gaelic periodical press and on the Gaelic columns of later 19th-century newspapers with a particular focus on the socio-historical dimensions of the texts which appeared in these. I have also worked on literature of the Highland diaspora within Scotland and abroad (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies and the East Indies). More recently I have been working on language use in the 19th-century Highlands, for example, examining job advertisements seeking Gaelic speakers; considering the use of Gaelic in lunatic asylums and in interactions with those in receipt of support from parochial boards; and the use of Gaelic in evidence given to government inquiries in the later 19th century. In studying this often-contested ground of the language of communication I aim to produce a more nuanced picture of language contact and provide a deeper understanding of social relations and dynamics of power in the nineteenth-century Highlands.

Current research projects include:

  • Gaelic literature in 19th-century Highland newspapers
  • the songs and poetry of women in the later nineteenth-century press
  • language use in the nineteenth-century Highlands

Publications

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2025

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2025) ‘You seem a very intelligent man, and can speak English’: Gaels and government inquiries in the later nineteenth century. Scottish Historical Review, 104(1), pp. 71-100. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2024.0699)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2025) ‘Cumha do Mhuinntir a’ Bharra-Bhric’: an eye-witness account of evictions in 1840s Argyll. Scottish Studies, 41, pp. 85-102. (doi: 10.2218/wbqzxe58)

2024

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) Black, Donald. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) Campbell, Daniel. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) Connell, Duncan. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) MacDonell, Farquhar Dougall. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) MacDougall, Robert. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) MacGregor, Alexander. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) MacGregor, Robert. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) MacLachlan, John. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) MacLeod, Norman. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) MacPhail, Malcolm Campbell. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) MacRury, John. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) Munro, Donald. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

2023

Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2023) Revisiting ‘Aoir air Pàdraig Sellar’ (‘A Satire on Patrick Sellar’) by Dòmhnall Bàillidh. Aiste, 6, pp. 109-128.

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2023) 'Jabbering continuously in Gaelic': Language and care of the insane in the nineteenth-century Highlands. Scottish Gaelic Studies, 32, pp. 1-22.

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2023) ‘Drochaid eadar mis’ agus mo dhùthaich’ [‘A bridge between me and my country’]: transatlantic networks and the nineteenth-century Gaelic periodical press. In: Kehoe, S. Karly, Dalglish, Chris and Tindley, Annie (eds.) Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World: Social Networks and Identities. Series: Histories of the Scottish Atlantic. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 71-90. ISBN 9781474494304

2022

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007, McCracken-Flesher, Caroline and McNeil, Kenneth (Eds.) (2022) The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature. Association for Scottish Literature: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908980359

Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2022) Gaelic literature of the diaspora. In: Kidd, Sheila M., McCracken-Flesher, Caroline and McNeil, Kenneth (eds.) The International Companion to nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature. Association for Scottish Literature: Glasgow, pp. 115-124. ISBN 9781908980359

2020

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2020) ‘Gaelic a recommendation’: language and employment in the nineteenth-century Highlands. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 40(2), pp. 77-102. (doi: 10.3366/jshs.2020.0298)

Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007, Clancy, Thomas O. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5976-4580 and Ó Maolalaigh, Roibeard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1154-134X (Eds.) (2020) Litreachas, Eachdraidh & Cànan: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 7. Celtic & Gaelic, University of Glasgow: Glasgow. ISBN 9780903204262

Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2020) Gaelic Writing from the Bible to the Stage: The Role of the Còmhradh. Scottish Gaelic Texts Society: Glasgow. ISBN 9780903586122

Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2020) The Scottish Gaelic Press. In: Finkelstein, David (ed.) The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 337-356. ISBN 9781474424882

2019

Byrne, Michel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9926-8725 and Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (Eds.) (2019) Lìontan Lìonmhor: Local, National and Global Gaelic Networks from the 18th to the 20th Century. Celtic & Gaelic, University of Glasgow: Glasgow. ISBN 9780903204255

Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 and Byrne, Michel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9926-8725 (2019) Vintners and criminal officers: two nineteenth-century poetry collections and their subscribers. In: Byrne, Michel and Kidd, Sheila M. (eds.) Lìontan Lìonmhor: Local, National and Global Gaelic Networks from the 18th to the 20th Century. Celtic & Gaelic, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, pp. 85-107. ISBN 9780903204255

2018

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2018) Electioneering in Gaelic in Perthshire. [Website]

2017

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2017) Kangaroos and Cockatoos: Gaelic literature in the nineteenth-century Antipodes. Scottish Literary Review, 9(2), pp. 1-18.

2016

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (Ed.) (2016) Còmhraidhean nan Cnoc: the Nineteenth-Century Gaelic Prose Dialogue. Scottish Gaelic Texts Society: Glasgow. ISBN 9780903586085

2015

Duncan, Ian and Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2015) The Nineteenth Century. In: Sassi, Carla (ed.) The International Companion to Scottish Literature. Series: International companions to Scottish literature. Scottish Literature International: Glasgow, pp. 64-73. ISBN 9781908980151

Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2015) Gaelic periodicals in the Lowlands: negotiating change. In: MacLachlan, Christopher and Renton, Ronal W. (eds.) Gael and Lowlander in Scottish Literature: Cross-currents in Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century. Series: Occasional papers (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) (20). Scottish Literature International: Glasgow, pp. 143-158. ISBN 97819089980106

2014

Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2014) 'Fo ghrèin loisgich nan Innsean': na h-Innseachan an Ear tro shùilean Gàidhealach. Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, LXVI, pp. 141-173.

2013

Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2013) Early Gaelic periodicals: knowledge transfer and impact. In: O Baoill, C. and McGuire, N. (eds.) Rannsachadh na Gaidhlig 6. An Clo Gaidhealach, University of Aberdeen: Aberdeen, UK, pp. 177-206. ISBN 9780952391180

Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2013) Gaelic books as cultural icons: the maintenance of cultural links between the Highlands and the West Indies. In: Sassi, C. and van Heijnsbergen, T. (eds.) Within and Without Empire: Scotland Across the (Post)colonial Borderline. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 46-60. ISBN 9781443849227

2011

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2011) ‘Thoir n’fhairre air na ha mi dol a scriobh’: Political Machinations and Code-Switching in James Macpherson’s Gaelic Letters. International Congress of Celtic Studies, Maynooth, Maynooth, July 2011.

2010

Byrne, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9926-8725 and Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2010) 'Vintners & Criminal Officers': Fo-sgrìobhaichean dà leabhair Earra-ghàidhealach ann am meadhan na 19mh linn. In: McLeod, W., Burnyeat, A., Stiùbhart, D.U., Clancy, T. and Ó Maolalaigh, R. (eds.) Bile ós Chrannaibh: a Festschrift for William Gillies. Clann Tuirc, pp. 29-44. ISBN 978-0954973391

Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2010) A thaghdairean Gaedhealach: early Gaelic electioneering. In: Nilsen, K.E. (ed.) Rannsachadh na Gaidhlig 5: Fifth Scottish Gaelic Research Conference. Cape Breton University Press: Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp. 116-133. ISBN 9781897009468

Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2010) Turtaran is faclairean: Ceanglaichean eadar Gàidheil na h-Alba agus Gàidheil nan Innseachan an Iar. Aiste, 3, pp. 19-48.

2008

Kidd, S.M. (2008) Burning issues: reactions to the Highland Press during the 1885 election campaign. Scottish Gaelic Studies, 24, pp. 285-307.

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2008) Burning issues: the Highland press the Gaels and the 1885 election campaign. Scottish Gaelic Studies, 24, pp. 285-307.

2007

Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (Ed.) (2007) Glasgow: Baile Mòr nan Gàidheal / City of the Gaels. Roinn Na Ceiltis Oilthigh Ghlaschu: Glasgow. ISBN 9780903204231

Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2007) Tormod MacLeòid: Àrd-Chonsal nan Gàidheal? [Norman MacLeod Consul to the Gaels?]. In: Kidd, S. M. (ed.) Glasgow: Baile Mòr nan Gàidheal = City of the Gaels. Department of Celtic, University of Glasgow, pp. 107-129. ISBN 9780903204231

Kidd, S. (2007) Tormod MacLeòid: àrd-chonsal nan Gàidheal. In: Glasgow : baile mòr nan Gàidheal. University of Glasgow, pp. 107-129. ISBN 9780903204231

Ó Maolalaigh, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1154-134X (2007) Mac bàillidh hirt, the son of the bailiff of St Kilda on his first visit to Glasgow: an eighteenth-century Gaelic satirical narrative tale from Islay in Gaelic-Scots orthography. In: Kidd, S.M. (ed.) Glasgow: Baile mòr nan Gàidheal = City of the Gaels. Department of Celtic, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, pp. 89-106. ISBN 9780903204231

2006

Byrne, M., Clancy, T.O. and Kidd, S.M. (Eds.) (2006) Litreachas and eachdraidh: rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 2, Glaschu 2002. Roinnna Ceiltis Oilthigh Ghlaschu: Glasgow. ISBN 9780903204224

Kidd, S.M ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2006) Displacing clearance? A nineteenth-century essay on slavery. In: Munro, G. and Cox, R.A.V. (eds.) Cànan & Cultar / Language & Culture. Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 4. Dunedin Academic Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9781903765869

Kidd, S.M. (2006) Carswell, John. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2006) The forgotten first: John MacCormick's 'Dùn-Àluinn'. Scottish Gaelic Studies, 22, pp. 197-219.

Kidd, S.M. (2006) Màiri mhòr nan Òran. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2006) Mac-Dhun-lèibhe, Uilleam. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2006) MacCormaic, Iain. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2006) MacEacharn, Dòmhnall. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2006) MacLachlainn, Eòghan. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2006) MacLeod, Norman. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2006) Scottish Gaelic prose, modern. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2006) Scottish Gaelic studies. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 66,

Kidd, S.M. (2006) Stuart, Revd. John. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

2004

Kidd, S.M. (2004) MacGregor, Alexander (1806-1881) Church of Scotland minister and writer of Scottish Gaelic prose. In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B. (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198614111

2003

Kidd, S.M. (2003) The Rev. Alexander MacGregor: the writer behind the pen-names. Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, LXI, pp. 1-24.

Kidd, S.M. (2003) Scottish Gaelic studies. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 65,

2002

Kidd, S.M. (2002) Caraid nan Gaidheal and 'Friend of Emigration': Gaelic emigration literature of the 1840s. Scottish Historical Review, 81(1), pp. 52-69. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2002.81.1.52)

Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2002) Scottish Gaelic studies. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 62,

2001

Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2001) Scottish Gaelic studies. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 63,

2000

Kidd, S.M. (2000) Social Control and Social Criticism: the nineteenth-century còmhradh. Scottish Gaelic Studies, 20, pp. 67-87.

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Articles

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2025) ‘You seem a very intelligent man, and can speak English’: Gaels and government inquiries in the later nineteenth century. Scottish Historical Review, 104(1), pp. 71-100. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2024.0699)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2025) ‘Cumha do Mhuinntir a’ Bharra-Bhric’: an eye-witness account of evictions in 1840s Argyll. Scottish Studies, 41, pp. 85-102. (doi: 10.2218/wbqzxe58)

Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2023) Revisiting ‘Aoir air Pàdraig Sellar’ (‘A Satire on Patrick Sellar’) by Dòmhnall Bàillidh. Aiste, 6, pp. 109-128.

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2023) 'Jabbering continuously in Gaelic': Language and care of the insane in the nineteenth-century Highlands. Scottish Gaelic Studies, 32, pp. 1-22.

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2020) ‘Gaelic a recommendation’: language and employment in the nineteenth-century Highlands. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 40(2), pp. 77-102. (doi: 10.3366/jshs.2020.0298)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2017) Kangaroos and Cockatoos: Gaelic literature in the nineteenth-century Antipodes. Scottish Literary Review, 9(2), pp. 1-18.

Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2014) 'Fo ghrèin loisgich nan Innsean': na h-Innseachan an Ear tro shùilean Gàidhealach. Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, LXVI, pp. 141-173.

Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2010) Turtaran is faclairean: Ceanglaichean eadar Gàidheil na h-Alba agus Gàidheil nan Innseachan an Iar. Aiste, 3, pp. 19-48.

Kidd, S.M. (2008) Burning issues: reactions to the Highland Press during the 1885 election campaign. Scottish Gaelic Studies, 24, pp. 285-307.

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2008) Burning issues: the Highland press the Gaels and the 1885 election campaign. Scottish Gaelic Studies, 24, pp. 285-307.

Kidd, S.M. (2006) The forgotten first: John MacCormick's 'Dùn-Àluinn'. Scottish Gaelic Studies, 22, pp. 197-219.

Kidd, S.M. (2006) Scottish Gaelic studies. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 66,

Kidd, S.M. (2003) The Rev. Alexander MacGregor: the writer behind the pen-names. Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, LXI, pp. 1-24.

Kidd, S.M. (2003) Scottish Gaelic studies. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 65,

Kidd, S.M. (2002) Caraid nan Gaidheal and 'Friend of Emigration': Gaelic emigration literature of the 1840s. Scottish Historical Review, 81(1), pp. 52-69. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2002.81.1.52)

Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2002) Scottish Gaelic studies. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 62,

Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2001) Scottish Gaelic studies. Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, 63,

Kidd, S.M. (2000) Social Control and Social Criticism: the nineteenth-century còmhradh. Scottish Gaelic Studies, 20, pp. 67-87.

Books

Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2020) Gaelic Writing from the Bible to the Stage: The Role of the Còmhradh. Scottish Gaelic Texts Society: Glasgow. ISBN 9780903586122

Book Sections

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) Black, Donald. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) Campbell, Daniel. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) Connell, Duncan. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) MacDonell, Farquhar Dougall. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) MacDougall, Robert. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) MacGregor, Alexander. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) MacGregor, Robert. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) MacLachlan, John. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) MacLeod, Norman. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) MacPhail, Malcolm Campbell. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) MacRury, John. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2024) Munro, Donald. In: Black, R., McCracken-Flesher, C. and Riach, A. (eds.) The Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. (In Press)

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2023) ‘Drochaid eadar mis’ agus mo dhùthaich’ [‘A bridge between me and my country’]: transatlantic networks and the nineteenth-century Gaelic periodical press. In: Kehoe, S. Karly, Dalglish, Chris and Tindley, Annie (eds.) Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World: Social Networks and Identities. Series: Histories of the Scottish Atlantic. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 71-90. ISBN 9781474494304

Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2022) Gaelic literature of the diaspora. In: Kidd, Sheila M., McCracken-Flesher, Caroline and McNeil, Kenneth (eds.) The International Companion to nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature. Association for Scottish Literature: Glasgow, pp. 115-124. ISBN 9781908980359

Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2020) The Scottish Gaelic Press. In: Finkelstein, David (ed.) The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 337-356. ISBN 9781474424882

Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 and Byrne, Michel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9926-8725 (2019) Vintners and criminal officers: two nineteenth-century poetry collections and their subscribers. In: Byrne, Michel and Kidd, Sheila M. (eds.) Lìontan Lìonmhor: Local, National and Global Gaelic Networks from the 18th to the 20th Century. Celtic & Gaelic, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, pp. 85-107. ISBN 9780903204255

Duncan, Ian and Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2015) The Nineteenth Century. In: Sassi, Carla (ed.) The International Companion to Scottish Literature. Series: International companions to Scottish literature. Scottish Literature International: Glasgow, pp. 64-73. ISBN 9781908980151

Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2015) Gaelic periodicals in the Lowlands: negotiating change. In: MacLachlan, Christopher and Renton, Ronal W. (eds.) Gael and Lowlander in Scottish Literature: Cross-currents in Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century. Series: Occasional papers (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) (20). Scottish Literature International: Glasgow, pp. 143-158. ISBN 97819089980106

Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2013) Early Gaelic periodicals: knowledge transfer and impact. In: O Baoill, C. and McGuire, N. (eds.) Rannsachadh na Gaidhlig 6. An Clo Gaidhealach, University of Aberdeen: Aberdeen, UK, pp. 177-206. ISBN 9780952391180

Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2013) Gaelic books as cultural icons: the maintenance of cultural links between the Highlands and the West Indies. In: Sassi, C. and van Heijnsbergen, T. (eds.) Within and Without Empire: Scotland Across the (Post)colonial Borderline. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 46-60. ISBN 9781443849227

Byrne, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9926-8725 and Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2010) 'Vintners & Criminal Officers': Fo-sgrìobhaichean dà leabhair Earra-ghàidhealach ann am meadhan na 19mh linn. In: McLeod, W., Burnyeat, A., Stiùbhart, D.U., Clancy, T. and Ó Maolalaigh, R. (eds.) Bile ós Chrannaibh: a Festschrift for William Gillies. Clann Tuirc, pp. 29-44. ISBN 978-0954973391

Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2010) A thaghdairean Gaedhealach: early Gaelic electioneering. In: Nilsen, K.E. (ed.) Rannsachadh na Gaidhlig 5: Fifth Scottish Gaelic Research Conference. Cape Breton University Press: Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp. 116-133. ISBN 9781897009468

Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2007) Tormod MacLeòid: Àrd-Chonsal nan Gàidheal? [Norman MacLeod Consul to the Gaels?]. In: Kidd, S. M. (ed.) Glasgow: Baile Mòr nan Gàidheal = City of the Gaels. Department of Celtic, University of Glasgow, pp. 107-129. ISBN 9780903204231

Kidd, S. (2007) Tormod MacLeòid: àrd-chonsal nan Gàidheal. In: Glasgow : baile mòr nan Gàidheal. University of Glasgow, pp. 107-129. ISBN 9780903204231

Ó Maolalaigh, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1154-134X (2007) Mac bàillidh hirt, the son of the bailiff of St Kilda on his first visit to Glasgow: an eighteenth-century Gaelic satirical narrative tale from Islay in Gaelic-Scots orthography. In: Kidd, S.M. (ed.) Glasgow: Baile mòr nan Gàidheal = City of the Gaels. Department of Celtic, University of Glasgow: Glasgow, pp. 89-106. ISBN 9780903204231

Kidd, S.M ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2006) Displacing clearance? A nineteenth-century essay on slavery. In: Munro, G. and Cox, R.A.V. (eds.) Cànan & Cultar / Language & Culture. Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 4. Dunedin Academic Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9781903765869

Kidd, S.M. (2006) Carswell, John. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2006) Màiri mhòr nan Òran. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2006) Mac-Dhun-lèibhe, Uilleam. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2006) MacCormaic, Iain. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2006) MacEacharn, Dòmhnall. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2006) MacLachlainn, Eòghan. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2006) MacLeod, Norman. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2006) Scottish Gaelic prose, modern. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2006) Stuart, Revd. John. In: Koch, J.T. (ed.) Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara. ISBN 1851094407

Kidd, S.M. (2004) MacGregor, Alexander (1806-1881) Church of Scotland minister and writer of Scottish Gaelic prose. In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B. (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198614111

Edited Books

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007, McCracken-Flesher, Caroline and McNeil, Kenneth (Eds.) (2022) The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature. Association for Scottish Literature: Glasgow. ISBN 9781908980359

Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007, Clancy, Thomas O. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5976-4580 and Ó Maolalaigh, Roibeard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1154-134X (Eds.) (2020) Litreachas, Eachdraidh & Cànan: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 7. Celtic & Gaelic, University of Glasgow: Glasgow. ISBN 9780903204262

Byrne, Michel ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9926-8725 and Kidd, Sheila M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (Eds.) (2019) Lìontan Lìonmhor: Local, National and Global Gaelic Networks from the 18th to the 20th Century. Celtic & Gaelic, University of Glasgow: Glasgow. ISBN 9780903204255

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (Ed.) (2016) Còmhraidhean nan Cnoc: the Nineteenth-Century Gaelic Prose Dialogue. Scottish Gaelic Texts Society: Glasgow. ISBN 9780903586085

Kidd, S.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (Ed.) (2007) Glasgow: Baile Mòr nan Gàidheal / City of the Gaels. Roinn Na Ceiltis Oilthigh Ghlaschu: Glasgow. ISBN 9780903204231

Byrne, M., Clancy, T.O. and Kidd, S.M. (Eds.) (2006) Litreachas and eachdraidh: rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 2, Glaschu 2002. Roinnna Ceiltis Oilthigh Ghlaschu: Glasgow. ISBN 9780903204224

Conference or Workshop Item

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2011) ‘Thoir n’fhairre air na ha mi dol a scriobh’: Political Machinations and Code-Switching in James Macpherson’s Gaelic Letters. International Congress of Celtic Studies, Maynooth, Maynooth, July 2011.

Website

Kidd, Sheila ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0306-2007 (2018) Electioneering in Gaelic in Perthshire. [Website]

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Grants

  • Wellcome Trust, Humanities and Social Science Small Grant: The Gaelic language and medical provision in the 19th-century Scottish Highlands, 2016.

Supervision

Chuirinn fàilte air ceistean bho dhaoine aig a bheil ùidh ann an ceum rannsachaidh a dhèanamh air litreachas, cultar agus eachdraidh nan Gàidheal bhon 18mh linn chun an 20mh linn, neo air coimhearsnachdan Gàidhlig air a’ Ghalltachd agus thall thairis.

I would welcome enquiries from prospective students interested in Gaelic literature and culture from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries and in the social history of the Highlands or Gaelic communities in the Lowlands and abroad.

Na h-iar-cheumnaich a tha mi a’ stiùireadh | Current postgraduate supervision:

  • Olivia Klee, (University of Aberdeen), ‘“A chlanna’ nan Gaidheal nach tig sibh a nall?”: Emigration propaganda in 19th-century periodicals aimed at Scottish Gaels’, co-supervisor with Professor Marjory Harper.
  • Eleanor Thomson, ‘Malcolm MacFarlane (Calum MacPhàrlain, 1853−1931). New perspectives on the Gaelic language movement at the turn of the twentieth century’, second supervisor with Dr Sìm Innes.
  • Wright, Grace
    Positioning Women’s Agency in Land Agitation and Protest in the Scottish Highlands and Islands 1847-1897

Iar-cheumnaich a tha deiseil | Completed theses

Teaching

’S e na prìomh dhleastanasan-teagaisg agam | My main teaching responsibilities:

  • Gaelic 1 Beginners – prìomh òraidiche | main tutor
  • Gaelic 1 Advanced – òrain ’s bàrdachd | song and poetry
  • Gaelic 2 Advanced – rosg | prose texts
  • An 19mh Linn ro Shùilean nan Gàidheal – Cùrsa urramach | Honours course
  • Guth nan Eilthireach: Litreachas Gàidhlig san t-Saoghal Ùr – Cùrsa urramach | Honours course
  • Co-òrdanaiche Chùrsaichean Urramach ann an Ceiltis is Gaidhlig |Honours Convenor in Celtic and Gaelic

Additional information


Dr Sheila Kidd