The volume includes papers on Scottish Gaelic history, language, literature and culture from early Christian times to the present. In addition to Scotland there is material relating to Ireland, Scandinavia, England and Canada.
This collection of essays, by some of the foremost scholars of Gaelic and Celtic studies, includes essays on aspects of Gaelic literature, language, material culture, oral tradition and history. The essays are based on papers and conversations held during the eighth Rannachadh na Gaidhlig conference, which took place at Edinburgh in July 2014.
'An excellent publication, Rannsachadh 8 covers a wide swathe of subjects pertinent to Gaelic studies: a worthy addition to the home or institutional bookshelf.'
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The editors all work at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Wilson McLeod is Professor of Gaelic, Director of Research, Celtic and Scottish Studies; Dr Anja Gunderloch is Lecturer in Celtic; and Professor Rob Dunbar is Chair of Celtic Languages, Literature, History and Antiquities.
Meg Bateman and John Purser: Uinneag dhan Aird an Iar: Leanailteachd Crutha ann an Duthchas nan Gaidheal; Ronald Black: The Gaelic Manuscripts at Inveraray Castle; Sara C. Brennan, Michael Danson and Bernadette O'Rourke: Selling a Language to Save It? The Business-Oriented Promotion of Gaelic and Irish; Hugh Cheape: A' suathadh ri iomadh rud: Comas is cothrom faclaireachd a leudachadh tro bhriathrachas a' chultair dhuthchasaich; Ross Crawford: The Massacre of Eigg in 1577; Stiubhart S. Dunmore: Gaidheil, Goill agus coimhearsnachd na Gaidhlig: Ideolasan canain am measg inbhich a fhuair FTMG; Jean S. Forward: Celtic Colours: Cultural Sustainability; Anne Macleod Hill: Dh'fhalbh na Gillean Grinn: Spiritual Perspectives in Women's Songs of The Great War; Grant Jarvie and Uisdean MacIllInnein: Camanachd - fada bharrachd na direach geam; Kyriakos Kalorkoti: Fuaran Sleibh: The Poet's Main Copy; Christopher Lewin: Syntactic innovation in Manx and Sutherland Gaelic; Coinneach MacLean: Haggis agus: Gaelic Scotland through the minibus window;Sandra Malley: The passion of George Campbell Hay for Gaelic and the Gaels; Ciorstaidh NicLeoid: Briathrachas an Iasgaich ann an Eilean Bharraigh: Faclan airson nan Sgothan; Sileas NicLeoid: Cuimseachadh air Cruth ann am Foghlam tro Mheadhan na Gaidhlig (FMG): A' leasachadh chomasan canain le ceartachadh iomchaidh;Priscilla Scott: Bean-Chomuinn nam Bard': Exploring common ground in the lives and perspectives of the Gaelic poets Mary MacPherson and Mary MacKellar; Richard Sharpe: Manuscript and Print in Gaelic Scotland and Ireland, 1689-1832; Moray Watson: The Gaelic Writer, Iain Crichton Smith.