A land that lies westward : language and culture in Islay and Argyll
2009
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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 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.
Main title:
A land that lies westward : language and culture in Islay and Argyll / edited by J. Derrick McClure, John M. Kirk and Margaret Storrie
Imprint:
Edinburgh : John Donald, 2009
Collation:
xi, 243 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781906566104
Local class:
941.11
Language:
English
BRN:
1785278
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