Research Catalog

Title

A land that lies westward : language and culture in Islay and Argyll / edited by J. Derrick McClure, John M. Kirk and Margaret Storrie.

Publication

Edinburgh : J.Donald, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• McClure, J. Derrick
• Kirk, John M. (John Monfries), 1952-
• Storrie, Margaret C. (Margaret Cochrane)

Description

xi, 243 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"This is a fascinating collection of new studies by leading scholars on central aspects of the languages, literatures, place-names, culture and history of the Isles of Islay and Jura and along the western seaboard of Argyll. It includes major re-assessments of the nineteenth-century Islay poet William Livingston, and an analysis of the Scots found in the poems of Tarbert poet George Campbell Hay. It describes the Gaelic of Jura and Islay as well as the patterns of place-names. In view of the proximity of these regions to Ulster, there are several fresh accounts of historical, cultural and genealogical exchange and crossover. The book ends with a new appreciation of Orwell's time on Jura."--Jacket

Subject

• Scottish Gaelic language > Dialects > Islay > Congresses
• Scottish Gaelic language > Dialects > Argyllshire > Congresses
• Islay (Scotland) > Civilization > Congresses
• Argyllshire (Scotland) > Civilization > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Revised and edited papers originally presented at a conference held at the Columba Centre on the Isle of Islay in July, 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / J. Derrick McClure, John M. Kirk and Margaret Storrie -- The Gaelic of South Argyll : Jura and Islay dialects / George Jones -- Settlement and naming in the southern Hebridan Isle of Islay / Margaret Storrie -- Close compound place-names in Ireland and Scotland / Peter Drummnd and Paul Tempan -- Close compound mountain toponyms in Islay and Jura / Peter Drummond -- Close compounds in Irish place-names / Paul Tempan -- Place-names and Scottish clan traditions in north-east County Antrim / Kay Muhr -- The emergence and early governance of Argyll / Angus MacMillan -- The wreck of the Exmouth on Islay, 1847 : a window on emigration from north-west Ulster during the Great Famine / Brian Lambkin -- The world of William Livingston / Donald E. Meek -- William Livingston's 'Na Lochlannaich an ile' / Christopher Whyte -- Making history : William Livingston and the creation of 'Blar Shunadail' / Donald E. Meek -- George Campbell Hay as a Scots Renaissance poet / J. Derrick McClure -- Orwell on Jura / Christopher Small.

ISBN

• 1906566100
• 9781906566104

OCLC

• 432587683
• SCSB-12420638

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library