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  Best of Scotland

  Hardback | Pub: 25 Jul 2019

  £14.99

  In this imaginative, informative and amusing miscellany, award-winning journalist John MacLeod explores some of the well-known symbols of Scottish culture (as well some of the quirkier ones) and looks beneath the surface to shatter some long-held...

• Calum’s Road

  Paperback | Pub: 27 May 2008

  £8.99

  ‘An incredible testament to one man’s determination’ – The Sunday Herald Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago, until...

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  Duanaire na Sracaire: Songbook of the Pillagers

  Paperback | Pub: 10 Oct 2019

  £25.00

  Duanaire na Sracaire is the first anthology to bring together Scotland’s Gaelic poetry from the millenium c.600-1600 AD, when Scotland shared its rich culture with Ireland. It includes a huge range of diverse poetry: prayers and hymns of Iona,...

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  The Essential Gaelic-English / English-Gaelic Dictionary

  Paperback | Pub: 15 Jul 2021

  £20.00

  Angus Watson’s Essential Gaelic-English and English-Gaelic dictionaries are well-established as one of the leading dictionaries of the Gaelic language. This combined dictionary is ideal for learners of Gaelic at all levels, and its generous...

• Everyday Gaelic

  Paperback | Pub: 01 Feb 2024

  £14.99

  This is an invaluable learning resource for anyone interested in Scottish Gaelic. In addition to basic words and phrases, it also includes more complex and idiomatic material, all arranged thematically and covering topics such as meeting and...

• Gaelic in Scotland 1698-1981

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Dec 2021

  £25.00

  Surprisingly little is known of the geographical history of Gaelic: where and when it was spoken in the past, and how and why the Gaelic-speaking area of Scotland – the Gaidhealtachd – has retreated and the language declined. A hundred years ago...

• The Gaelic Otherworld

  Paperback | Pub: 23 May 2019

  £30.00

  John Gregorson Campbell (1834–91) was one of the most outstanding folklorists working in Scotland during the nineteenth century. Based on materials which he had gathered in the 1850s and 1860s, his Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of...

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  Glasgow’s Gaelic Place-names

  Paperback | Pub: 21 Sep 2023

  £12.99

  It is time to bin – once and for all – the nonsense that Gaelic was never spoken in Glasgow. In fact, Glasgow’s place-names tell us that Gaelic has been spoken in Glasgow for around a thousand years. Showcasing new research from the...

• Islands of the Evening

  Paperback | Pub: 06 Oct 2022

  £10.99

  ‘[an] exploration of Scotland’s past through the eyes of a scholarly hiker … Magnificent’ – New Statesman, Books of the Year Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints journeyed to the Hebrides and Scotland’s Atlantic...

• Kinship, Church and Culture

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Jan 2016

  £30.00

  John Bannerman (1932-2008) saw the history of Scotland from a Gaelic perspective, and his outstanding scholarship made that perspective impossible to ignore. As a historian, his natural home was the era between the Romans and the twelfth century...

• Pedigrees, Power and Clanship

  Hardback | Pub: 16 Nov 2023

  £60.00

  This book brings together the major writings of David Sellar (1941–2019) on the genealogies (pedigrees) claimed by some of the major clans of medieval Highland and Island Scotland, especially the descendants of their twelfth-century king Somerled....

• The Placenames of Scotland

  Paperback | Pub: 04 Aug 2022

  £12.99

  Placenames are a constant source of debate. Who was Edwin, whose name is said to live on in that of Scotland’s capital city? Are the ‘drum’ and ‘chapel’ still to be found in Drumchapel? And which ‘king’ had...

• A School in South Uist

  Paperback | Pub: 18 Aug 2022

  £9.99

  In 1889 Frederick Rea arrived from the Midlands to teach in South Uist, at that time one of the poorest places in the Outer Hebrides. Roads were often no more than rough tracks across the mountain moorland or over the storm-swept machair, and his...

• Scottish Gaelic in Twelve Weeks

  Paperback | Pub: 02 Feb 2023

  £14.99

  This new 2023 edition includes an audio download link. Scottish Gaelic in Twelve Weeks has been written both as a self-tuition course for beginners and also for use within the classroom. You may want to learn Gaelic because of a general interest in...