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A Land That Lies Westward : Essay on the Language and Culture of Islay and Argyll

Kirk, John M.(Edited by)McClure, J. Derrick(Edited by)Storrie, Margaret C.(Edited by)
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This book 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 of these regions 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.

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John Donald Short Run Press
1906566100 / 9781906566104
Paperback / softback
09/07/2009
United Kingdom
256 pages, Illustrations, maps
156 x 234 mm, 412 grams
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