This guide provides a general introduction to Library resources relating to Celtic and Scottish Studies.
The University holds a wealth of valuable Gaelic material. This page points you to some key collections / items.
There are some 1,000 items (books, journals, DVDs, etc.) in Scottish Gaelic via DiscoverEd. To retrieve such a list:
1) use 'Gaelic' as search term for 'all items' that contains the term 'anywhere in the record':
2) filter the search results by language for 'Scottish Gaelic':
Gaelic history and culture is strongly represented in the archive / manuscript collections in the Centre for Research Collections. Keyword search for 'Gaelic' in Archives Online retrieves 3,194 results. Notable collections are:
Other Manuscripts - Làmh-sgrìobhainnean eile
For detailed information about these collections, see CRC website Gàidhlig / Gaelic Resources.
New College Library's collections contain over 400 Gaelic monographs and pamphlets dating from the 18th to 20th centuries. They can be identified on DiscoverEd using Advanced Search for shelfmark Gaelic Coll:
Manuscript material includes James Kirkwood's late 17th- / early 18th-century correspondence relating to the providing of Irish (Gaelic) Bibles to the Highlands and Islands. Enquiries should be directed to new.college.library@ed.ac.uk or you can visit the library in person.
The University's media and streaming service Media Hopper Create has a Gaelic channel which contains 116 media - films, documentaries and childrens programs recorded in Gaelic. These items are NOT yet catalogued in DiscoverEd.
The School of Scottish Studies Archives, embracing 16,000 hours of sound and video recordings, a major photographic collection, and a rich variety of manuscript material, are a vital repository of Scottish culture and ethnography, and an internationally significant hub for teaching and research in folklore, material culture, and the traditional arts. Gaelic related items include:
Full information about the collections can be found on the archives' webpages.
The University has made many of the recordings in the School of Scottish Studies available for use in the Kist O Riches / Tobar an Dualchais project - these are now digitised on their website. This website contains over 40,000 oral recordings made in Scotland and further afield, from the 1930s onwards. The items you can listen to include stories, songs, music, poetry and factual information.
The Library subscribes to Music and Dance Online which gives access to 10 million audio tracks, 3,600+ videos, 1.3 million pages of scores and 124,000+ pages of reference material on world music and dance. It contains 313 collections of music and songs in Gaelic.
Examples:
