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Journal articles on the topic "Gaelic culture in Scotland"
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O'Hanlon, Fiona, and Lindsay Paterson. "Seeing is believing? Public exposure to Gaelic and language attitudes." Scottish Affairs 28, no. 1 (February 2019): 74–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2019.0266.
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In language planning for minority languages, policy often aims to positively influence attitudes towards the language by increasing its salience in key areas of public life such as broadcasting and signage. This is true for Gaelic in Scotland, where recent national initiatives have included the establishing of a Gaelic language television channel in 2008, and the launch, in the same year, of a bilingual brand identity for ScotRail (Rèile na h-Alba), resulting in Gaelic-English signage at railway stations across Scotland. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on the effects of such an increase in national visibility of Gaelic on public attitudes towards the language. The present paper explores this using a national survey of public attitudes conducted in Scotland in 2012. Exposure to Gaelic broadcasting was found to be positively associated with attitudes towards the status of the Gaelic language (as a language spoken in Scotland, and as an important element of cultural heritage), and with attitudes towards the greater use of Gaelic (in public services and in the future). However, exposure to Gaelic signage was often negatively associated with such broader attitudes to the language and culture. The implications of the results for Gaelic language planning, and for future academic studies of language attitudes in Scotland, are explored.The authors acknowledge the support of the funders of the research – the ESRC (Grant number ES/J003352/1), the Scottish Government, Bòrd na Gàidhlig, and Soillse.
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Turnock, David, and Charles W. Withers. "Gaelic Scotland: The Transformation of a Culture Region." Geographical Journal 155, no. 2 (July 1989): 251. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/635070.
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Mitchell, Robert D., and Charles W. J. Withers. "Gaelic Scotland: The Transformation of a Culture Region." Geographical Review 80, no. 3 (July 1990): 327. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/215314.
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Garrett, Ellidh M. "Gaelic Scotland: The Transformation of a Culture Region." Population Studies 43, no. 3 (November 1, 1989): 522–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0032472031000144346.
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Macinnes, John. "Gaelic Scotland: The transformation of a culture region." Journal of Historical Geography 16, no. 2 (April 1990): 234–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0305-7488(90)90095-s.
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Ellis, Steven G. "The collapse of the Gaelic world, 1450–1650." Irish Historical Studies 31, no. 124 (November 1999): 449–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021121400014358.
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This article offers some reflections on the processes of nation-making and state formation as they affected the oldest ethnic and cultural grouping in the British Isles, that of the Gaedhil, roughly in the period 1450–1650, and examines the ways in which these processes have been portrayed by historians. At the present day the Gaelic language remains the normal medium of communication in small areas of western Ireland and western Scotland; and in respect of political developments in both Scotland and Ireland, Gaelic customs and culture have exercised a much more substantial influence. Despite these similarities, there remain significant differences between British and Irish historians in the ways in which the Gaelic contribution to nation-making and state formation have been presented.A basic distinction advanced by historians both of Ireland and Scotland has been one between the Gaelic peoples inhabiting Ireland and those resident in Scotland. It can be argued that this may reflect the relative importance of the Gaelic contribution to the making of two separate kingdoms, and ultimately two separate states; but it also means that the wider process of interaction and assimilation between Gaedhil and Gaill is split into separate Irish and Scottish experiences. In theory, these two Gaelic experiences should provide material for a comparative study of a particularly illuminating kind, but in practice other historiographical influences have generally militated against this kind of comparative history. One such is the more marginal position of Gaelic studies within Scottish historiography than is the case in Ireland. Considering that half of Scotland was still Gaelic-speaking in 1700, for instance, it is remarkable how few Scottish historians seem able to make use of Gaelic sources. Another is the practice of establishing separate departments of history in the universities for the teaching of national history. This has meant, for instance, that students are usually taught that portion of the Gaedhil/Gaill interaction process which relates to the ‘nation’ by specialist teachers of national history. Yet, since these national surveys reflect modern nations and modern national boundaries, students are trained to study Irishmen and Scots in the making rather than to consider how the inhabitants of late medieval Gaeldom might have viewed developments in the wider Gaelic world. Arguably, behind these approaches lies the influence of the modern nation-state. Scotland and Northern Ireland remain part of a multi-national British state which is dominated by England.
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Cipriano, Salvatore. "“Students Who Have the Irish Tongue”: The Gaidhealtachd, Education, and State Formation in Covenanted Scotland, 1638–1651." Journal of British Studies 60, no. 1 (January 2021): 66–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2020.186.
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AbstractThis article examines the Scottish Covenanters’ initiatives to revamp educational provision in the Gaidhealtachd, the Gaelic-speaking portions of Scotland, from the beginning of the Scottish Revolution in 1638 to the Cromwellian conquest of Scotland in 1651. Scholars have explored in detail the range of educational schemes pursued by central governments in the seventeenth century to “civilize” the Gaidhealtachd, but few have engaged in an analysis of Covenanting schemes and how they differed from previous endeavors. While the Statutes of Iona are probably the best-known initiative to civilize the Gaidhealtachd and extirpate the Gaelic language, Covenanter schemes both adapted such policies and further innovated in order to serve the needs of a nascent confessional state. In particular, Covenanting schemes represented a unique and pragmatic way to address the Gaidhealtachd's educational deficiencies because they sought practical accommodation of the Gaelic language and preferred the matriculation of Gaelophone scholars into the universities. These measures not only represented a new strategy for integrating the Gaelic periphery into the Scottish state but were also notable for the ways in which they incorporated Gaelophone students into Scotland's higher education orbit—a stark departure from the educational situation in Ireland. By drawing on underutilized manuscript and printed sources, this article examines how the Covenanters refurbished education in the Gaidhealtachd and posits that the Covenanter schemes represented a key facet of the broader process of state formation in 1640s Scotland.
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Ellis, Steven G. "Nationalist historiography and the English and Gaelic worlds in the late middle ages." Irish Historical Studies 25, no. 97 (May 1986): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002112140002530x.
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Much more so than in modern times, sharp cultural and social differences distinguished the various peoples inhabiting the British Isles in the later middle ages. Not surprisingly these differences and the interaction between medieval forms of culture and society have attracted considerable attention by historians. By comparison with other fields of research, we know much about the impact of the Westminster government on the various regions of the English polity, about the interaction between highland and lowland Scotland and about the similarities and differences between English and Gaelic Ireland. Yet the historical coverage of these questions has been uneven, and what at first glance might appear obvious and promising lines of inquiry have been largely neglected — for example the relationship between Gaelic Ireland and Gaelic Scotland, or between Wales, the north of England and the lordship of Ireland as borderlands of the English polity. No doubt the nature and extent of the surviving evidence is an important factor in explaining this unevenness, but in fact studies of interaction between different cultures seem to reflect not so much their intrinsic importance for our understanding of different late medieval societies as their perceived significance for the future development of movements culminating in the present.
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Egan, Simon. "Richard II and the Wider Gaelic World: A Reassessment." Journal of British Studies 57, no. 2 (March 29, 2018): 221–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2017.237.
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AbstractAlthough Richard II's Irish expedition of 1394–95 has attracted considerable scholarly attention, the focus has largely been on Richard's relations with the colonial administration in Ireland, pointing mainly to the colonial government's plea for greater royal investment in the colony as the main factor underpinning Richard's decision to intervene in Ireland. Little attention, by comparison, has been devoted to exploring the king's relations with both the Gaelic Irish and Gaelic Scottish nobility. Using Richard's relations with the expanding Gaelic world as the main case study, this article reconsiders how developments in the Gaelic west influenced the king's decision to intervene in Ireland. Set against the backdrop of Anglo-Scottish relations and the Hundred Years’ War, the article draws on a broad range of Gaelic sources from Ireland and Scotland, English and Scottish governmental records, and material from the Avignon papacy. It uncovers and traces the development of the main Gaelic Irish and Gaelic Scottish dynasties during the late fourteenth century, their relationships with one another, and their unfolding connections with the English and Scottish crowns. By locating Richard's expeditions within the broader archipelagic context, this article argues that the wider Gaelic world, though on the geographic periphery of Ireland and Scotland, was capable of exerting a far greater degree of influence on the course of “British” politics than has previously been acknowledged.
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Dawson, Jane. "The Protestant Earl and Godly Gael: The Fifth Earl of Argyll [c. 1538-73] and the Scottish Reformation." Studies in Church History. Subsidia 12 (1999): 337–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0143045900002568.
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Above the entrance doorway at Carnasserie Castle in mid-Argyll there is a finely carved panel containing the coat of arms of Archibald Campbell, fifth Earl of Argyll, and his first wife, Lady Jean Stewart. Along the foot of the panel, in the script employed in Gaelic manuscripts, there is a motto which reads: ‘DIA LE UA NDUIBH[N]E’ or ‘God be with Ó Duibhne.’ The designation Ó Duibhne referred to the fifth Earl of Argyll as chief of Clan Campbell. The inscription and its setting provide a perfect illustration of the different cultures and traditions which the fifth Earl combined in his personal and public life and permitted him to be both a Protestant earl and a godly Gael. The short Gaelic phrase of the motto was the first post-Reformation inscription within the Gaidhealtachd or Gaelic-speaking area, which covered the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Gaelic culture in Scotland"
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Morét, Ulrike. "Gaelic history and culture in mediaeval and sixteenth-century Lowland Scottish historiography." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1993. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=124215.
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The subject of this study is attitudes towards Gaelic Scotland to be found in Lowland Scottish historiography of the late fourteenth to the late sixteenth century; the authors examined were John of Fordun, Andrew Wyntoun, Walter Bower, John Mair, Hector Boece, John Leslie and George Buchanan. In the first part of the thesis the historical works were examined with respect to the attitude of each individual author towards the Highlanders of his own time. It was found that the earlier authors - i.e. Fordun, Wyntoun, Bower and Mair - mirror anti-Highland feeling and prejudice that were widespread in their own Lowland surroundings. They further the image of the Highlander as a savage. The later authors, by contrast, look upon their Gaelic contemporaries from a humanistic, or rather, 'primitivistic', point of view: to them the Gaelic Scots with their simple way of life represent the virtuous and noble customs and traditions of the Scottish forefathers. The second part of the thesis was concerned with the historians' presentation of Gaelic kings and kingship. Special attention was paid to their understanding of the Gaelic succession law; here, a lack of comprehension could be noted among the authors, which led to a distorted presentation of the reigns and characters of a number of Gaelic kings of tenth- and eleventh-century Scotland. In this historical part, no substantial difference in presentation could be found between the earlier and the sixteenth-century authors, mainly because the latter did not carry out any historical research of their own. In the case of Fordun, Wyntoun, Bower and Mair, perceptions of Gaelic Scotland are rooted in the traditional negative attitudes of their own times and surroundings; this corresponds to a lack of understanding of aspects of the Gaelic element in Scottish history. The humanist historians, on the other hand, propose a view of Gaelic Scotland which is in opposition to the views of their own Lowland contemporaries, and which they do not back up in their presentations of Scottish history.
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Horsburgh, David Henry Robert. "Gaelic language and culture in north-east Scotland : a diachronic study." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.262925.
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The thesis outlines the history of the Gaelic language and culture in North-East Scotland which is defined as the old counties of Kincardine, Aberdeen, Banff, Moray and Nairn. After an introductory description of the North-East, the thesis explores the rise of Gaelic culture, the displacement of Pictish culture by Gaelic, and the dominant position of Gaelic in the North-East by the 12th century as indicated in contemporary sources such as the Book of Deer. The thesis also describes the emergence of a linguistic and cultural frontier which endured between the 12th and 19th centuries, the association of Gaelic culture with the concept of the 'wild Scot', and the perception of the Gaidhealtachd as a region distinguished by language, dress and customs. In exploring these themes, particular areas have been commented upon, including, the church, law and administration and the burghs. Changing attitudes to Gaelic language and culture since the Reformation period have been outlined. The effect of Reformation politics on the North-East Gaelic communities, against a background of wider Scottish events, have been charted with frequent resort to contemporary sources such as the Minutes of the SSPCK, the Statistical Accounts and the Decennial Census Reports. The decline of the Gaelic language and culture in the North-East parishes has been traced from the late 17th century down to the 20th century, including some description of the last communities. Finally, an analysis of the Gaelic-speaking community in the city of Aberdeen has been made, focusing on the Gaelic chapel, the Celtic Society and Department at the University, and the evidence of the census for numbers of speakers.
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Macdonald, S. "Social and linguistic identity in the Scottish Gaidhealtachd : A study of Staffin, Isle of Skye." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234301.
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McLeod, Wilson. "Divided Gaels : Gaelic Scotland and Gaelic Ireland, 1200-1650 - perceptions and connections /." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2000. http://webex.lib.ed.ac.uk/abstracts/mcleod01.pdf.
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Maclean, Coinneach. "The 'Tourist Gaze' on Gaelic Scotland." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5178/.
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The Scottish Gael is objectified in an un-modified ‘Tourist Gaze’; a condition that is best understood from a post-colonial perspective. John Urry showed that cultures are objectified by the gaze of a global tourist industry. The unequal power relations in that gaze can be mediated through resistance and the production of staged touristic events. The process leads to commoditisation and in-authenticity and this is the current discourse on Scottish tourism icons. An ethnographic study of tour guiding shows a pattern of (re)-presentation of a silenced and near invisible Gaeldom. By building upon Foucauldian theories of power, Said’s critique of Orientalism’s discourse and Spivak on agency, this unmodified gaze can be explained from a postcolonial perspective. Six related aspects of Gaeldom’s (re)-presentation are revealed ; the discourse of the Victorian invention of Scottish cultural icons, and, by metonymic extension, Gaelic culture; the commoditisation of Gaelic culture in the image of the Highland Warrior; the re-naming of landscape and invention of new place narratives; historical presence by invitation; elision with Irish culture; and, the mute Gael. Combined, the elements of (re)-presentation result in the distancing and the rendering opaque of Gaelic culture. The absence of informed mediators, either tourist authorities or individuals, the lack of an oppositional narrative and the pervasive discourse of invention reduces the Gael to a silenced subaltern ‘other’. Thus the unmediated tourist ‘gaze’ continues. This exceptionally singular condition of Scottish Gaeldom is comprehensible through analysis of Scottish tourism from a postcolonial perspective.
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Milligan, Lindsay. "The role of Gaelic (learners) education in reversing language shift for Gaelic in Scotland." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2010. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=158424.
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Extensive literature has argued the important role that education plays in the process of language shift. Within this literature, it is widely acknowledged that education in which the target language is also the medium of instruction can make a positive contribution toward Reversing Language Shift. For users of minoritised languages in particular, having access to education in one’s own language has important status and educational consequences: helping to support the prestige of the target language and also reducing the kinds of educational inequalities that are often associated with minoritised languages. In keeping with the prime importance of language-as-medium education to language planning goals, there is a growing body of research which focuses upon Gaelic Medium Education in Scotland. The role that second or additional language education can play in Reversing Language Shift is acknowledged to a much lesser extent. This is especially true within the context of Scotland, where the relevant education provision within state secondary schools, Gaelic (Learners) Education, has only received passing recognition. This thesis aimed to address this gap in knowledge about the way in which education contributes to development goals for Gaelic in Scotland by questioning what, if any, role the Gaelic (Learners) Education programme has to play in the reversal of language shift. The first aim of the dissertation was to identify a theoretical foundation for the role that second or additional language education can play in Reversing Language Shift. Several prominent theoretical approaches were reviewed and a hypothesis posed that Gaelic (Learners) Education was beneficial to both Acquisition and Status development. Subsequent analyses of policies at the macro, meso, and micro levels confirmed the relevance of this hypothesis. However, it was also found that there was a lack of overt policy acknowledgement for Gaelic (Learners) Education in Scotland overall, suggesting that the stream was not regarded as being particularly relevant to Reversing Language Shift. The next aim of the thesis was to clarify the ways in which the stream could be used to help contribute to the reversal of language shift. This focused on identifying areas in which this educational programme could be improved. Using data elicited in semi-structured interviews with education professionals and gathered through surveys of pupils within GLE classes, several blockages for Gaelic (Learners) Education could be identified including aspects of capacity, opportunity and attitudes.
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MacDonald, Fiona Anne. "Ireland and Scotland : historical perspectives on the Gaelic dimension 1560-1760." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389677.
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This thesis provides a general overview of the links between the Scottish Gaels of the western seaboard of Scotland and the Gaelic-speaking peoples of Ireland, especially of Ulster, between 1560 and 1760. It covers a period of dramatic transformation in Gaelic society, from the age of Reformation to the collapse of Jacobitism and the decline of clanship. The focus of fresh interpretation is on religious, social and, to a lesser extent, economic links, but political, military and cultural connections are also considered, in order to reach an understanding of the encompassing historical perspective which governs the relationship between the Gaels. Most connections in 1560 were related to the trade in Highland mercenaries to Ulster and Connacht, and to the growing territorial aspirations of a small colony of MacDonald settlers in Antrim. The Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the coterminous completion of the Tudor conquest of Ireland had a number of consequences on pan-Gaelic relations. The mercenary trade came to an end, leading to the creation a pool of redundant swordsmen in both countries. Highlanders were officially excluded from the plantation of Ulster in 1610, which introduced more of an Englishspeaking dimension to Scoto-Irish relations. In physical terms, the presence of English and Lowland Scots settlers in the north of Ireland divided the Gaels. In order to survive in Ulster, the MacDonnells of Antrim were forced to conform to the government in Dublin. This rendered the split between them and the Clan Donald South in Scotland permanent, and further undermined Gaelic solidarity in Ulster. The pan-Gaelic military connection is traced from the mercenary trade through the political realignment of 1603, to the Royalism of the civil war period when the Gaels entered the national arena, and finally to the limited links of the first and last Jacobite rebellions. The contribution made by the Gaels to each other's religious heritage was substantial. The factors which rejuvenated and sustained Catholicism in the Highlands and Islands after the Reformation are examined, particularly the role of the first missionaries, who were almost exclusively Irish regulars. During the seventeenth century, Irish Franciscans, Vincentians, Dominicans, Barnabites, lay Capuchins and secular priests were present on the Highland mission who, by the end of the century, were all working together under the Scottish secular mission head. In the eighteenth century, the number of Irish dropped as native Highlanders assumed responsibility for the mission. Conversely, the role of Gaelic-speaking ministers in the Church of Ireland, and in the presbyterian church in Ulster from the late sixteenth century, is examined. The contribution of Gaelic-speaking, University-educated Scots to the embryonic Protestant Church in Ireland, when few Irish-speakers were conforming, was particularly significant. There was a considerable volume of commercial traffic across the North Channel, both legitimate trade and smuggling, in which the Gaelic elite played their part. The trade in military contraband iv and victuals during the Ulster rebellion (1594-1603), the grain trade, the Highland fishing industry in the late seventeenth century and their expeditions to Ireland, and the leasing of west coast forests by Irish tanning merchants in the eighteenth century, are all evaluated. There was also a substantial smuggling trade in salt, fish, grain, livestock, and various incidental items. The various factors between 1560 and 1760 which resulted in the permanent settlement of Highlanders in Ireland are elucidated, as well as the seasonal interchange of migrant workers and refugees from ecclesiastical and judicial discipline. Periods of war and the political realignment after them usually affected migration, and there was, thus, substantial Scottish settlement in Ireland in the Cromwellian period and after the 1690 Revolution, when land devastated by warfare was made available for settlement. On a more occasional basis, evidence indicates that Highlanders most often fled to Ulster to escape sanction, whereas the Irish were most attracted by the better provision made for poor relief in Scotland, particularly in Argyll and the southern Isles. Cultural links between the Gaels, which have proved most enduring in the long term, were marked in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries by the movement of Scots to Ireland to be educated in the traditional schools of learning, particularly in the medical and bardic disciplines, but also to study with virtuoso musicians. With the decline in Gaelic institutions in both countries, cultural ties between the Gaels became less formal. Those pursuing a medical career either became apprentice apothecaries or enrolled at universities, though musicians continued to travel in the Gaidhealtachds without attention to national boundary. Many more from the Gaelic learned class redeployed into the ranks of the Established Church in Scotland or the Catholic Church in Ireland. Throughout the thesis there are undertones of the antipathy which existed between the Campbells of Argyll, and the MacDonalds of Kintyre and Islay, their offshoot the MacDonnells of Antrim, and various clans previously associated with the Lordship of the Isles, who tended to take opposing sides in any conflict because of their antagonistic stance towards each other. Attitudes among clans on the western seaboard to the role of the Campbells as agents of the government was an important factor in the polarisation of the Highland clans in the 1640s civil war and during the Jacobite rebellions, into Stewart and government camps. Included in the traditionalist stance was a concept of a pan-Gaelic unity connecting the Gaels of Ireland and Scotland. Though, by the end of the seventeenth century, this had little basis in reality, the idea was fostered and developed, almost exclusively by the MacDonald bards, probably as part of an anachronistic identification with the role of the Lordship and the MacDonalds' own long-term relationship with Ireland. Nonetheless, it is worthy of note that it is the MacDonald viewpoint which significantly colours surviving concepts of Scottish Gaelic history.
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Pollock, Irene. "The acquisition of literacy in Gaelic-medium primary classrooms in Scotland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29326.
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This thesis analyses the factors affecting the acquisition of literacy in Gaelic medium primary classrooms, including teaching techniques, availability of resources, and support for language development. In order to investigate this issue thoroughly, the background for the study includes an overview of the sociolinguistic situation of Scottish Gaelic, comparison to other minority language revitalisation efforts, discussion of the theories and practice of bilingualism and bilingual education, and an in-depth look at literacy acquisition, from perceptions of literacy and its value to the mechanics of reading in both a first and a second language. The core of the thesis involves extended observational data from seven case-study classrooms. The targeted population is Primary 1 to 3 pupils as this is the intensive period of reading instruction; the research focus is on literacy in Gaelic as the amount of English at this stage is negligible. Interviews and questionnaires involving education authorities, teachers, and parents supplement this data and emphasise the qualitative, ethnographic approach. The specific results are placed in the broader context of the Scottish education system and the Gaelic revitalisation movement. The analysis assesses the effectiveness of literacy acquisition in Gaelic-medium education and addresses some of the challenges related to further development. This thesis concludes that while significant progress has been made in the teaching of literacy in Gaelic medium education, there are several points that are cause for concern, including the nature of teacher training, the provision of sufficient and appropriate resources, and the amount of extra-curricular reading taking place. Examples of best practice from the case-study classrooms are provided as possible solutions to these problems.
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Oliver, James. "Young people and Gaelic in Scotland : identity dynamics in a European region." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269365.
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Chalmers, Douglas. "The economic impact of Gaelic arts and culture." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404680.
Full textBooks on the topic "Gaelic culture in Scotland"
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Withers, Charles W. J. Gaelic Scotland: The transformation of a culture region. London: Croom Helm, 1988.
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Gaelic Scotland: The transformation of a culture region. London: Routledge, 1988.
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Bradley, Joseph M. The Gaelic Athletic Association and Irishness in Scotland: History, ethnicity, politics, culture & identity. Glendaruel, Argyll, Scotland: Argyll Pub., 2007.
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Urban Highlanders: Highland-Lowland migration and urban Gaelic culture, 1700-1900. East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 1998.
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Parliament, Scotland. Gaelic language (Scotland) Act 2005: Asp 5. Edinburgh: The Stationery Office, 2005.
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GREAT BRITAIN. Office of population censuses and surveys. Topic statistics ; Gaelic language in Scotland: Prospectus. [s.l.]: Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, 1992.
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John, Marsden. Somerled and the emergence of Gaelic Scotland. East Linton, East Lothian: Tuckwel Press, 2000.
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Fiannaí, Seán Ó. The Gaelic League in Scotland 1895-1995. Glasgow: Conradh na Gaeilge (Gaelic League), 1995.
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Newton, Michael Steven. Gaelic in Scottish history and culture. Belfast, Ireland: An Clochán, 1997.
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A pocket history of Gaelic culture. Dublin: O'Brien Press, 2000.
Find full textBook chapters on the topic "Gaelic culture in Scotland"
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Chalmers, Douglas. "The Promotion of Arts and Culture as a Tool of Economic Regeneration: An Opportunity or a Threat to Minority Language Development? — The Case of Gaelic in Scotland." In Rights, Promotion and Integration Issues for Minority Languages in Europe, 141–64. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-23375-1_9.
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Melin, Mats, and Jennifer Schoonover. "Gaelic references and continental European connections." In Dance Legacies of Scotland, 55–66. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003043607-4.
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Collinson, Francis. "The Gaelic Labour Songs." In The Traditional and National Music of Scotland, 67–118. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003205845-4.
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Collinson, Francis. "Gaelic and Lowland Scots Song." In The Traditional and National Music of Scotland, 32–66. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003205845-3.
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Chapman, Malcolm. "Modern Gaelic Poetry." In The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture, 139–80. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003205012-6.
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Collinson, Francis. "The Gaelic Long Tunes for the Psalms." In The Traditional and National Music of Scotland, 261–64. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003205845-11.
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MacDonald, Iain G. "The Church in Gaelic Scotland before the Reformation." In Christianities in the Early Modern Celtic World, 17–28. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137306357_2.
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Gillanders, Farquhar. "The Economic Life of Gaelic Scotland Today 1." In The Future of the Highlands, 93–150. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003205081-4.
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Smith, John A. "The Position of Gaelic and Gaelic Culture in Scottish Education." In The Future of the Highlands, 57–92. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003205081-3.
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Judge, Anne. "The Regional Languages of Scotland: Scottish Gaelic and Scots." In Linguistic Policies and the Survival of Regional Languages in France and Britain, 187–209. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230286177_11.
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Salzano, Rachel, Hazel Hall, and Gemma Webster. "The relationship between culture and public library use: non-Western students in Scotland." In ISIC: the Information Behaviour Conference. University of Borås, Borås, Sweden, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47989/irisic2035.
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Introduction: Individuals’ cultural backgrounds influence their use of societal resources, including those offered in public libraries. Well-established in library research are explorations of the benefits of public library use to new-comer communities, including migrant workers, immigrants, forced migrants, and international students. However, to date no research has been completed on why these communities use particular resources. Methods: The project outlined in this poster concerns international students from non-Western countries in Scotland. Using a mixed methods approach, the study presented will explore why international students from non-Western countries use specific public library resources, and the cultural factors that influence this use. Analyses: Findings will derive from thematic analysis of participant responses in interview and questionnaire data. Conclusion: An understanding of the perceived value of certain resources can assist in the effective tailoring of resources to serve new community members.
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Andries, Valentina, and Sabina Savadova. "Understanding the Role of Digital Technology in the Transitions of Refugee Families with Young Children into A New Culture: A Case Study of Scotland." In IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3459990.3465185.
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Montà, Chiara Carla, and Catrin Jeans. "CHILD-LED POLICY AS A PEDAGOGICAL 'AGORA' SUPPORTING A RIGHTS-BASED SCHOOL CULTURE. AS DEMONSTRATED BY A COLLABORATION BETWEEN CHILDREN’S PARLIAMENT, SCOTLAND AND MANOR PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL, ABERDEEN." In 13th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. IATED, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2020.0960.
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Dryjski, Jacek, Maciej Dryjski, Charles Demuylder, and Th Janssens. "THROMBOGENISITY OF ENDOTHELIAL SEEDED VASCULAR GRAFT." In XIth International Congress on Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Schattauer GmbH, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1644803.
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It has recently been suggested that endothelial cell (EC) seeding of vascular grafts surfaces may lead to a less thrombo-genic surface. The present investigation was designed to study the capacity of aortic endothelium and neointima developing on seeded grafts to inactivate thrombin. In order to obtain an optimal surface for EC attachment the lyophylized porcine skin (Zenoderm®, Ethicon, Scotland) were used to form tubular grafts. Grafts seeded with enzymatically derived EC from the jugular vein was compared with control grafts that were shamed seeded with culture medium and blood. Animals with seeded grafts were divided into two groups, one group received dipyridamole treatment, theother one remained untreated. The prosthesis were implanted in the abdominal aorta in 21 dogs. Six dogs died due to different complications after surgery. The remaining 15 were sacrified 2 monthsafter graft implantations. The aorta and the grafts were excised divided into two parts, one was fixed for light and scanning electron microscopy, the otherone was analyzed for capacity to inactivate thrombin which enzymatic activity was assayed by an amiodolytic method. The grafts and aortic segments were exposed for 12 U/ml of thrombin solution. After 10 min incubation the enzyme activity decreased in the supernatant and were found in similar amounts on the grafts and aortic surfaces. Thrombin bound to endothelium was rapidly inhibited after exposure to plasma for 30 sec. In contrast, thrombin retained on the neointima of both seeded and shame seeded grafts were only minor inhibited by plasma. The morphological analyses shown that both seeded and shame seeded grafts developed a thin cellular lining covering up to 100% of the specimens’ surface area. The subcellular layer was equal in all groups. No statistical difference in morphology nor in thrombin inhibiting capacity was noted between dipyridamole treated and untreated animals. It is concluded that both the aorticendothelium and graft neointima can take up thrombin but only aortic endothelium can efficiently inactivate it. Seeding of the grafts with endothelial cellsdid not signifcantly improve its capacity to inhibit activated coagulation enzymes.
Reports on the topic "Gaelic culture in Scotland"
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Hunter, Fraser, and Martin Carruthers. Iron Age Scotland. Society for Antiquaries of Scotland, September 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.09.2012.193.
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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under five key headings: Building blocks: The ultimate aim should be to build rich, detailed and testable narratives situated within a European context, and addressing phenomena from the longue durée to the short-term over international to local scales. Chronological control is essential to this and effective dating strategies are required to enable generation-level analysis. The ‘serendipity factor’ of archaeological work must be enhanced by recognising and getting the most out of information-rich sites as they appear. o There is a pressing need to revisit the archives of excavated sites to extract more information from existing resources, notably through dating programmes targeted at regional sequences – the Western Isles Atlantic roundhouse sequence is an obvious target. o Many areas still lack anything beyond the baldest of settlement sequences, with little understanding of the relations between key site types. There is a need to get at least basic sequences from many more areas, either from sustained regional programmes or targeted sampling exercises. o Much of the methodologically innovative work and new insights have come from long-running research excavations. Such large-scale research projects are an important element in developing new approaches to the Iron Age. Daily life and practice: There remains great potential to improve the understanding of people’s lives in the Iron Age through fresh approaches to, and integration of, existing and newly-excavated data. o House use. Rigorous analysis and innovative approaches, including experimental archaeology, should be employed to get the most out of the understanding of daily life through the strengths of the Scottish record, such as deposits within buildings, organic preservation and waterlogging. o Material culture. Artefact studies have the potential to be far more integral to understandings of Iron Age societies, both from the rich assemblages of the Atlantic area and less-rich lowland finds. Key areas of concern are basic studies of material groups (including the function of everyday items such as stone and bone tools, and the nature of craft processes – iron, copper alloy, bone/antler and shale offer particularly good evidence). Other key topics are: the role of ‘art’ and other forms of decoration and comparative approaches to assemblages to obtain synthetic views of the uses of material culture. o Field to feast. Subsistence practices are a core area of research essential to understanding past society, but different strands of evidence need to be more fully integrated, with a ‘field to feast’ approach, from production to consumption. The working of agricultural systems is poorly understood, from agricultural processes to cooking practices and cuisine: integrated work between different specialisms would assist greatly. There is a need for conceptual as well as practical perspectives – e.g. how were wild resources conceived? o Ritual practice. There has been valuable work in identifying depositional practices, such as deposition of animals or querns, which are thought to relate to house-based ritual practices, but there is great potential for further pattern-spotting, synthesis and interpretation. Iron Age Scotland: ScARF Panel Report v Landscapes and regions: Concepts of ‘region’ or ‘province’, and how they changed over time, need to be critically explored, because they are contentious, poorly defined and highly variable. What did Iron Age people see as their geographical horizons, and how did this change? Attempts to understand the Iron Age landscape require improved, integrated survey methodologies, as existing approaches are inevitably partial. Aspects of the landscape’s physical form and cover should be investigated more fully, in terms of vegetation (known only in outline over most of the country) and sea level change in key areas such as the firths of Moray and Forth. Landscapes beyond settlement merit further work, e.g. the use of the landscape for deposition of objects or people, and what this tells us of contemporary perceptions and beliefs. Concepts of inherited landscapes (how Iron Age communities saw and used this longlived land) and socal resilience to issues such as climate change should be explored more fully. Reconstructing Iron Age societies. The changing structure of society over space and time in this period remains poorly understood. Researchers should interrogate the data for better and more explicitly-expressed understandings of social structures and relations between people. The wider context: Researchers need to engage with the big questions of change on a European level (and beyond). Relationships with neighbouring areas (e.g. England, Ireland) and analogies from other areas (e.g. Scandinavia and the Low Countries) can help inform Scottish studies. Key big topics are: o The nature and effect of the introduction of iron. o The social processes lying behind evidence for movement and contact. o Parallels and differences in social processes and developments. o The changing nature of houses and households over this period, including the role of ‘substantial houses’, from crannogs to brochs, the development and role of complex architecture, and the shift away from roundhouses. o The chronology, nature and meaning of hillforts and other enclosed settlements. o Relationships with the Roman world
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Brophy, Kenny, and Alison Sheridan, eds. Neolithic Scotland: ScARF Panel Report. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, June 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.06.2012.196.
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The main recommendations of the Panel report can be summarised as follows: The Overall Picture: more needs to be understood about the process of acculturation of indigenous communities; about the Atlantic, Breton strand of Neolithisation; about the ‘how and why’ of the spread of Grooved Ware use and its associated practices and traditions; and about reactions to Continental Beaker novelties which appeared from the 25th century. The Detailed Picture: Our understanding of developments in different parts of Scotland is very uneven, with Shetland and the north-west mainland being in particular need of targeted research. Also, here and elsewhere in Scotland, the chronology of developments needs to be clarified, especially as regards developments in the Hebrides. Lifeways and Lifestyles: Research needs to be directed towards filling the substantial gaps in our understanding of: i) subsistence strategies; ii) landscape use (including issues of population size and distribution); iii) environmental change and its consequences – and in particular issues of sea level rise, peat formation and woodland regeneration; and iv) the nature and organisation of the places where people lived; and to track changes over time in all of these. Material Culture and Use of Resources: In addition to fine-tuning our characterisation of material culture and resource use (and its changes over the course of the Neolithic), we need to apply a wider range of analytical approaches in order to discover more about manufacture and use.Some basic questions still need to be addressed (e.g. the chronology of felsite use in Shetland; what kind of pottery was in use, c 3000–2500, in areas where Grooved Ware was not used, etc.) and are outlined in the relevant section of the document. Our knowledge of organic artefacts is very limited, so research in waterlogged contexts is desirable. Identity, Society, Belief Systems: Basic questions about the organisation of society need to be addressed: are we dealing with communities that started out as egalitarian, but (in some regions) became socially differentiated? Can we identify acculturated indigenous people? How much mobility, and what kind of mobility, was there at different times during the Neolithic? And our chronology of certain monument types and key sites (including the Ring of Brodgar, despite its recent excavation) requires to be clarified, especially since we now know that certain types of monument (including Clava cairns) were not built during the Neolithic. The way in which certain types of site (e.g. large palisaded enclosures) were used remains to be clarified. Research and methodological issues: There is still much ignorance of the results of past and current research, so more effective means of dissemination are required. Basic inventory information (e.g. the Scottish Human Remains Database) needs to be compiled, and Canmore and museum database information needs to be updated and expanded – and, where not already available online, placed online, preferably with a Scottish Neolithic e-hub that directs the enquirer to all the available sources of information. The Historic Scotland on-line radiocarbon date inventory needs to be resurrected and kept up to date. Under-used resources, including the rich aerial photography archive in the NMRS, need to have their potential fully exploited. Multi-disciplinary, collaborative research (and the application of GIS modelling to spatial data in order to process the results) is vital if we are to escape from the current ‘silo’ approach and address key research questions from a range of perspectives; and awareness of relevant research outside Scotland is essential if we are to avoid reinventing the wheel. Our perspective needs to encompass multi-scale approaches, so that ScARF Neolithic Panel Report iv developments within Scotland can be understood at a local, regional and wider level. Most importantly, the right questions need to be framed, and the right research strategies need to be developed, in order to extract the maximum amount of information about the Scottish Neolithic.
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Hall, Mark, and Neil Price. Medieval Scotland: A Future for its Past. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, September 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.09.2012.165.
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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under five key headings. Underpinning all five areas is the recognition that human narratives remain crucial for ensuring the widest access to our shared past. There is no wish to see political and economic narratives abandoned but the need is recognised for there to be an expansion to more social narratives to fully explore the potential of the diverse evidence base. The questions that can be asked are here framed in a national context but they need to be supported and improved a) by the development of regional research frameworks, and b) by an enhanced study of Scotland’s international context through time. 1. From North Britain to the Idea of Scotland: Understanding why, where and how ‘Scotland’ emerges provides a focal point of research. Investigating state formation requires work from Medieval Scotland: a future for its past ii a variety of sources, exploring the relationships between centres of consumption - royal, ecclesiastical and urban - and their hinterlands. Working from site-specific work to regional analysis, researchers can explore how what would become ‘Scotland’ came to be, and whence sprang its inspiration. 2. Lifestyles and Living Spaces: Holistic approaches to exploring medieval settlement should be promoted, combining landscape studies with artefactual, environmental, and documentary work. Understanding the role of individual sites within wider local, regional and national settlement systems should be promoted, and chronological frameworks developed to chart the changing nature of Medieval settlement. 3. Mentalities: The holistic understanding of medieval belief (particularly, but not exclusively, in its early medieval or early historic phase) needs to broaden its contextual understanding with reference to prehistoric or inherited belief systems and frames of reference. Collaborative approaches should draw on international parallels and analogues in pursuit of defining and contrasting local or regional belief systems through integrated studies of portable material culture, monumentality and landscape. 4. Empowerment: Revisiting museum collections and renewing the study of newly retrieved artefacts is vital to a broader understanding of the dynamics of writing within society. Text needs to be seen less as a metaphor and more as a technological and social innovation in material culture which will help the understanding of it as an experienced, imaginatively rich reality of life. In archaeological terms, the study of the relatively neglected cultural areas of sensory perception, memory, learning and play needs to be promoted to enrich the understanding of past social behaviours. 5. Parameters: Multi-disciplinary, collaborative, and cross-sector approaches should be encouraged in order to release the research potential of all sectors of archaeology. Creative solutions should be sought to the challenges of transmitting the importance of archaeological work and conserving the resource for current and future research.