CLOG (Univ. of Glasgow)

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Byrne, Michel

English

‘Chan e chleachd bhith an cabhsair chlach’: Am Bàrd Gàidhlig ’s am Baile Mòr bhon 17mh Linn chun an 20mh

Kidd, Sheila M.

Tormod MacLeòid: Àrd-Chonsal nan Gàidheal?

MacDonald, Kenneth D.

Glasgow and Gaelic Writing

Gillies, William

Uilleam MacGillÌosa

On the Study of Gaelic Literature

Grant, William

Alexander Cameron and Reliquiae Celticae

Taylor, Simon

StronPatnaHachalas or the Oxterhill: Place-names and language-contact in the Beauly area, Inverness-shire

Bibliography for 2014

The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 11, 2017, 116‒17
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Professor Thomas Owen Clancy holds the Chair of Celtic at the University of 
Glasgow, where he has taught since 1995. He has been Principal Investigator for
a number of recent place-name projects, including most recently the AHRC-
funded ‘Scottish Toponymy in Transition’ (2011‒2014) and the Leverhulme-
funded ‘Commemorations of Saints in Scottish Place-Names’ (2010‒2013). He is 
a former editor of The Innes Review and is joint series editor of The International 
Companions to Scottish Literature.
Professor Richard A. V. Cox’s interests include Gaelic language and literature, 
including modern poetry and prose writing, publishing, lexicography, linguistics, 
onomastics and Norse-Gaelic contact. Formerly at the Departments of Celtic at 
Glasgow and then Aberdeen, he is currently Professor in Gaelic language and
literature at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, University of the Highlands and Islands.
Dr Leonie Dunlop is currently in the final year of the MLA in Landscape 
Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art. In 2016, she completed her PhD entitled 
‘Breaking old and new ground: a comparative study of coastal and inland naming 
in Berwickshire’ in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her 
poetry has been published in the Dangerous Women Project, Gutter, Raum, and 
Dactyl, and she won the Alastair Buchan Prize in 2015.
Dr Richard Lathe is at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Edinburgh. A 
graduate of the university, he has held professorial appointments in Strasbourg, 
Edinburgh and Moscow. In addition to biomedicine, he has interests in the origin 
of life as well as in the music and early history of Scotland, with a special interest 
in the evolution of sea levels and their impact on migration and place-names.
Dr Coinneach Maclean is by training an archaeologist and for eight years was 
Deputy Chief Executive of the National Trust for Scotland. Since 2008 he has 
worked as a Gaelic-speaking Scottish Tour Guide Association Blue Badge guide, 
specialising in Gaelic and Highland Scotland. Since 2008 he has also been a 
trading partner in Iùl. His broad interests include archaeology, architecture, art, 
history, heritage and environment conservation, and all aspects of Gaelic culture. 
In 2014 he completed a doctoral research thesis: ‘The “Tourist Gaze” on Gaelic 
Scotland’ at the University of Glasgow.
Dr Peadar Morgan graduated in History and International Relations from the 
University of Aberdeen in 1982 and returned to part-time study to obtain a PhD 
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on ‘Ethnonyms in the Place-Names of Scotland and the Border Counties of 
England’ from the School of History, University of St Andrews, in 2013. He has 
worked since 2005 with the statutory Gaelic body Bòrd na Gàidhlig, latterly in 
research management, data processing and corpus planning. Current interests 
include topographic generics and geo-genealogy.
For William (Bill) Patterson place-names are the point of intersection for 
interests in language, history, archaeology, mythology and folklore, and the use 
and administration of land resources.  From 1969 to 2012 he worked in town 
and country planning, from 1989 as a Reporter handling appeals and similar 
matters for the Scottish Office/Executive/Government. This involved making 
acquaintance with places and place-names around Scotland from Unst to 
Kirkmadrine, Carloway to Foulden. An early childhood living on Tyneside but 
with frequent visits to relatives in Edinburgh, Peebles and mining settlements in 
Lanarkshire, usually combined with exploration of historic places and hearing 
their stories, no doubt fostered the group of inter-related interests; as did the 
resulting exposure to many registers and varieties of speech, from parental 
Scottish Standard English enlivened by Scotticisms to rural Northumberland 
and retired Shotts coal miner. At the same time interest in the more exotic was 
encouraged by occasional sorties as far as the Firth of Clyde, the East Neuk of 
Fife, or west Cumberland.
Dr Norval Smith studied Latin and Ancient Greek at the University of Glasgow, 
and General Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. 
Following a working career at the Linguistics department of the University 
of Amsterdam, he is still affiliated there as a (retired) Guest Researcher. His 
specialities are phonology, creole studies and revitalising older linguistic 
documentation. His most recent publication was a large edited report for the 
Netherlands Foundation for Research (NWO), Surviving the Middle Passage: 
the West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund (2015), produced together with co-lead 
investigator Pieter Muysken of  the Radboud University Nijmegen. He has had a 
life-long interest in the place-names of Strathearn, Perthshire, and did fieldwork 
with the last speaker of the Scots dialect of Fowlis (Strathearn).
Dr Simon Taylor has been working in various aspects of Scottish place-name 
studies since the early 1990s, including the production of detailed surveys of Fife 
(5 volumes, 2006‒2012), Kinross-shire (1 volume, 2017) and Clackmannanshire 
(1 volume, forthcoming). He is employed half-time as a reader in Scottish Name 
Studies at the University of Glasgow. Editor of JSNS since its inception in 2007, he 
is now co-editor with Richard Cox.


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