Gaelic Words and Expressions from South Uist and Eriskay-Collected by Allan McDonald
Author: Allan McDonald
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 303
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Author: Allan McDonald
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 303
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 317
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allan McDonald
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 317
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allan McDonald
Publisher: [Dublin] : Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allan McDonald
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 301
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allan MacDonald
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 301
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 301
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Angus MacLellan
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0857902717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an extraordinary collection of tales from one of the very greatest Gaelic storytellers, Angus MacLellan, and translated by one of Scotland's finest Celtic Scholars, John Lorne Campbell. The stories in the book include every type of tale found on South Uist, from Fingalian heroes and ghost stories to international folktales and humorous and historical local anecdotes. These tales of ancient kings, thrilling escapes, jealous stepmothers and magic spells are fascinating not only for their narrative power, but also their links with myths and legends from Ireland, Scandinavia, France and Greece. The Hebrideaen island of South Uist was one of the last places in Western Europe where the ancient art of Storytelling was still honoured and practised, and the style of these translations is at once original and hypnotic, reflecting the oral tradition at their source.
Author: Roger Hutchinson
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0857909584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly on a Sunday morning in October 1905, in Eriskay, one of the smallest and most isolated of Hebridean islands, a forty-five year old Catholic parish priest died of pleurisy. It was a disease which had claimed many of his parishioners, and Father Allan McDonald undoubtedly contracted it while ministering to his flock. He was mourned all over Scotland. Now, over a century later, his name is still remembered with reverence throughout Catholic Scotland and beyond. Father Allan – Maighstir Ailein to his Gaelic-speaking people – was a witty, accomplished, intellectual and dedicated man; one of the most renowned of Hebridean personalities and probably the most celebrated Hebridean priest since St Columba. An exceptionally effective and articulate local politician in the southern Outer Hebrides, which at the turn of the twentieth century was amongst the poorest and most neglected in Europe, he was also an accomplished Gaelic poet and writer and one of Scotland's greatest collectors of folklore. His achievements attracted attention and visitors came to his lonely parish from the United States, England and elsewhere. The compelling tale of his remarkable life is also implicitly the story of the north-west Highlands in the late nineteenth century and the Catholic Hebrides in their transcendent prime, where culture overflows with myth and adventure, colour, character and extraordinary unspoilt beauty.
Author: John Lorne Campbell
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 48
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