Research projects:
We are involved in various co-operative projects of both academic and public varieties, including Corpas na Gàidhlig.
- Ainmeannan-àite Mhuile & Ulbha | The Place-names of Mull & Ulva
- Iona’s Namescape: Place-names and their dynamics in Iona and its environs
- Eòlas nan Naomh: Early Christianity in Uist
- Comasan Labhairt ann an Gàidhlig
- Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic
- The Expansion and Contraction of Gaelic in Medieval Scotland: the onomastic evidence
- Dachaigh airson Stòras na Gàidhlig / Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic
- Corpas na Gàidhlig
- Scottish Toponymy in Transition
- Commemorations of Saints in Scottish Place-Names
- Soillse: we contribute to the inter-institutional project Soillse, devoted to increasing research capacity on Scottish Gaelic maintenance and revitalization, through a Strategic Research Development / Horizon Grant from SFC, and also supported by Bòrd na Gàidhlig, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, and the universities involved.
- Glasgow Iona Research Group
Research strengths:
Early medieval literature and history
- the early history and poetry of the monastery of Iona
- an anthology in translation of the poetry of Scotland, 550–1350
- place-names in the poetry of the Northern Britons
- the history of Scotland AD 400–1100
- Christianity in early medieval Scotland
- early Gaelic women poets
- fools in early Irish texts
- medieval Irish voyage tales
- early Irish narrative poetry
- the social setting of the Ulster Cycle
- an introductory reader of Medieval Welsh
- Pictish language and culture
- early Christian inscribed stones of Munster
- place-names as a historical resource
Scottish Gaelic and Modern Irish literature
- an edition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish poems
- the prose writings of the Rev. Alexander MacGregor
- the work of John MacCormick
- the dialogue in Gaelic literary tradition
- the Gaelic proverb
- Gaelic journalism
- Gaelic heroic ballads
- Oral tradition of Gaelic Scotland
- Oral transmission of Gaelic prose and verse texts
- twentieth-century Scottish Gaelic poetry
- George Campbell Hay
- early modern Gaelic literature
Language, teaching, and linguistics
- on-line dictionaries for modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic
- the Linguistic Survey of Scottish Gaelic
- a Welsh spell-checker
- Gaelic and Irish dialectology
- Scottish Gaelic grammar
- aspects of IT and Gaelic teaching
- history of Gaelic lexicography