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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Gaelic"”.
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Gaelic in primary education: a study of the development of Gaelic bilingual education in urban contexts
In August 1985 two small-scale Gaelic Units were opened by Strathclyde and Highland Regional Councils, situated within urban primary schools in Glasgow and Inverness respectively. Their purpose was to develop the use of Gaelic as a medium of education for children to the majority of whom it is not …
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Popular Religion in Gaelic Ireland 1445 - 1645
Increased interest in the area o f ‘popular religion’ among historians is a relatively recent phenomenon. John Bossy traces its origins to the school o f ‘religious sociology’ which was inaugurated in France in 1931 by the canon law historian, Gabriel le Bras. 1 It is certainly true that historians …
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Scottish Gaelic women's poetry up to 1750
The intention of this work was not to provide a detailed study of all the poems composed by women up to 1750, but rather to find the threads which linked them to each other. These threads are mainly thematic, although others, such as the songs connected with a story, cross a thematic range while …
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The Gaelic dialect of Urris, Inishowen, Co. Donegal
While I was engaged in fieldwork in Fanad during the summer of I960, Professor Robert J. Gregg of the University of British Columbia, who was at that time in the area collecting material for his survey of the Scotch-Irish dialects of Ulster, invited me to accompany him on a working-trip to …
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Assassination of Michael Collins: A Revival in Gaelic Nationalism
… Army and then the National Army, and the rise in Gaelic Nationalism across Ireland after his death. Ireland struggled to gain independence from England throughout history because England controlled all aspects of Irish life. It was not until 1916, during the Easter Rising, that Collins started to …
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Phonetic variation, sound change, and identity in Scottish Gaelic
… concentrate on young fluent speakers of Scottish Gaelic, a minority language of Scotland that is currently undergoing revitalisation. Data from three groups of speakers are presented: older speakers in the Isle of Lewis, a Gaelic heartland area in north-west Scotland; adolescent Gaelic-speakers in …
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Why Donegal Slept: The Development of Gaelic Games in Donegal, 1884-1934
… through an assessment of the areas in which Gaelic games were played. The rivalry between organisers of Gaelic football and soccer will be addressed and the impact of the press on this will also be explored. The reasons for the failure of hurling within the county will also be outlined. How …
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Law, poetry and medicine: the literate professionals in autonomous Gaelic Ireland, c.1250 - c.1630
… as hereditary brehons, poets and doctors to the Gaelic aristocracy over a period from c.1250-c.1630. My investigation into these families brings together evidence from Gaelic and English sources to highlight the work these families did for their patrons, their status in society and their …
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Looking through the Cracked Looking Glass: Masculinity, Gaelic Sports and Revolutionary Thought in Ireland, 1884-1920
… that will be examined through this lens are the Gaelic Athletic Association, Patrick Pearse, St. Enda’s school, and Michael Collins. This thesis will monitor the use of institutions, masculinity, control of information, discipline, and most notably the epistemic shift, in an effort to better …
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The Resurgence of Gaelic power in Ireland and Scotland and its wider impact, c.1350-1513
… Isles fell under the control of a handful of Gaelic dynasties in Ireland and Scotland. The impact of this profound geopolitical recasting of much of the Atlantic Archipelago has however, received very little scholarly attention. Instead, historians have tended to view events within this …
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Language and culture as a societal asset: Strategic alignment of language policy to a sustainable socio-economic market for gaelic
… specifically for the extant<br/>Gàidhealtachd Gaelic-speaker group. The core of this doctoral work lies in<br/>understanding how these assets may be strategically aligned with national language<br/>policy to create the beneficial socio-economic market conditions required to develop<br/>a more …
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Sùilean Gàidhlig, Speuclairean Beurla - Dathan ann an Litreachas agus Dualchas Nitheil
… the depth and uniqueness of colour in the Gaelic language, which has additional values beyond the hue-based colour system of the English language, such as brilliance, saturation, and temperature. The Gaelic colour use is particularly used to convey light and dark, rather than hue alone. The …
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Filid, Fairies and Faith: The Effects of Gaelic Culture, Religious Conflict and the Dynamics of Dual Confessionalisation on the Suppression of Witchcraft Accusations and Witch-Hunts in Early Modern Ireland, 1533 – 1670
… conditions in Ireland were the persistence of Gaelic culture and the ongoing conditions of open, inter-religious conflict. In particular, two artifacts of Gaelic Irish culture had distinct impact upon Irish witchcraft beliefs. The office of the Poet, or fili (singular for filid), seems to have …
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Parental choice of minority language education in language shift situations in Brittany and Scotland
… of minority languages, specifically Breton and Gaelic. The thesis considers parental choice in terms of their socioeconomic profile, their language background and their patterns of language use. It is anticipated that this will contribute to explaining how educationally-based interventions work …
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Nuair a bha Gaidhlig aig na h-eoin : an investigation into the art and artifice of avifaunal mimesis as a mode of artistic expression in Gaelic oral culture from the seventeenth century to the present
… will interrogate the mimetic faculty of modern Gaelic oral culture, focussing particularly on mimesis as an artistic device. The imitation of nature in Gaelic is perhaps most frequently associated with the folk-song tradition, in which non-lexical vocable refrains are frequently deployed for the …
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Animals and the economy of medieval Ireland: a zooarchaeological analysis of the faunal remains from Caherconnell Cashel, Co. Clare
… is a significant gap of knowledge surrounding Gaelic sites of this period, which ultimately raises the question as to the influence of the former on the economy of those settlements. This research aims to gain a better understanding of the agricultural economy of Gaelic sites during these …
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Scandinavian place-names in Northern Britain as evidence for language contact and interaction
… work-order, these names were instead created by Gaelic-speakers who had shifted to the Scandinavian language. It is also argued that the more widespread distribution of names in ǽrgi in comparison with the inversion names is not due to the two groups of names by coined by different groups of …
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Ritual and myths between Ireland and Galicia. The Irish Milesian myth in the Leabhar Gabhála Éireann: Over the Ninth Wave. Origins, contacts and literary evidence.
… the possibility that Galicia may share a Gaelic/Celtic cultural identity with Ireland. This dissertation proposes to compare the Milesians pre-Christian myths in the Leabhar Gabhála Éireann and their rituals, with those of Galicia, for example, The Ninth Wave. Early traces of Gaelic/Celtic …
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