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Colloquial Scottish Gaelic
Colloquial Scottish Gaelic provides a step-by-step course in Scottish Gaelic as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Scottish Gaelic in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Key features include: progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios useful vocabulary lists throughout the text...
Colloquial Scottish Gaelic
Utilizing native speakers, this guide offers a quintessential course in Scottish Gaelic.
Gaelic Names of Pipe Tunes
A bilingual edition, reproducing the German verse & colored illustrations of the definitive 1861 edition of Der Struwwelpeter by Henrich Hoffmann. These new translations (a few are from Struwwelpeter Tales of Hoffmann, above) try to follow Hoffmann's verses word by word, line by line, as closely as is possible in natural straightforward English that flows & scans & rhymes. Above all else they try to capture the spirit & lift & sound of Hoffmann's lines. Some of the stories are softened: in the stories of Pauline & Suppenkaspar it is explained that Hoffmann's eyewitness reports must be mistaken & the "real" stories, leaving the children unscathed, are then told. These follow-ups are kept with...
Brigh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song
Few published collections of Gaelic song place the songs or their singers and communities in context. Brìgh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song corrects this, showing how the inherited art of a fourth-generation Canadian Gael fits within biographical, social, and historical contexts. It is the first major study of its kind to be undertaken for a Scottish Gaelic singer. The forty-eight songs and nine folktales in the collection are transcribed from field recordings and presented as the singer performed them, with an English translation provided. All the songs are accompanied by musical transcriptions. The book also includes a brief autobiography in Lauchie MacLellan's entertaining narrative style. John Shaw has added extensive notes and references, as well as photos and maps. In an era of growing appreciation of Celtic cultures, Brìgh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song makes an important Gaelic tradition available to the general reader. The materials also serve as a unique, adaptable resource for those with more specialized research or teaching interests in ethnology/folklore, Canadian studies, Gaelic language, ethnomusicology, Celtic studies, anthropology, and social history.
The Highland Monthly
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The Politics of Language in Ireland 1366-1922
For almost a thousand years language has been an important and contentious issue in Ireland but above all it reflects the great themes of Irish history: colonial, invasion, native resistance, religious and cultural difference. Collected here for the first time are texts on language from the date of the first legislation against the Irish: the Statute of Kilkenny, 1366, to the constitution of the Free State in 1922. Crowley's introduction connects these texts to current debates, giving The Belfast Agreement as a textual example and illustrating that the language debates continue today. Divided into six historical sections with detailed editor's introductions, this unique sourcebook includes familiar cultural texts such as essays and letters by Yeats along side less familiar writings including the Preface to the New Testament in Irish. (1602) Providing direct access to original texts, this is an historical resource book which can be used as a case study in the relations between language and cultural identity.
