Prof. Colm Ó Baoill

Colm Ó Baoill

Telephone:

+44 (0)1224 272638

Email:

c.oboyle@abdn.ac.uk

Address:

C02, Taylor Building

Research Interests

Starting in Belfast, where his Professor was Heinrich H. Wagner (1923-1988), he studied Ulster Irish and Scottish Gaelic in his theses for the MA (1962) and PhD (1966) degrees, and between 1961 and 1965 he collected Scottish material for vol. IV (1969) of Wagner's Linguistic Atlas. In Aberdeen his interest soon turned to Gaelic verse of the period 1600-1730 and several volumes have been published (1972, 1979, 1994, 1995 and 1997), including an anthology with English translations by Meg Bateman (1994).

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Recent Publications

In reverse chronological order.

  • 2010.   ‘A History of Gaelic to 1800’. The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language (ed. Moray Watson and Michelle MacLeod), Edinburgh; 1-21.
  • 2009.   ‘Hugh Cameron Gillies (c.1856-1925): a biographical sketch’. SGS (Scottish Gaelic Studies) XXV 263-301.
  • 2009.   Mairghread nighean Lachlainn: Song-maker of Mull, Edinburgh.
  • 2007.   Gaelic is Fun-tastic! Edinburgh.
  • 2007.   ‘Scríobhaithe agus Saothrú an Léinn i dtuaisceart na hÉireann ó 1300’. Belfast: Léann I 77-91.
  • 2007.   ‘Robert Campbell, Forsair Choire an t-Sìth’. SGS XXIII 57-84.
  • 2006.   [with Cathair Ó Dochartaigh] Trí Rainn agus Amhrán, CD, Brig o Turk, with Scottish Gaelic text; also available on the internet at  www.clanntuirc.co.uk/TRAA/TRAAbaile.html
  • 2005    [with Cathair Ó Dochartaigh] Trí Rainn agus Amhrán. as above (in Irish only).
  • 2004. ‘Neither Out Nor In: Scottish Gaelic Women Poets, 1650-1750’. Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing (eds Sarah Dunnigan, C. Marie Harker and Evelyns S. Newlyn), Palgrave; 136-152.
  • 2002. with Nancy R McGuire (eds.). Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 2000. Aberdeen.

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Recent Conference Papers

  • The oldest songs of the Gael. Irish Scottish Academic Initiative conference, Queen’s University, Belfast, 2002.
  • Banfhilí Gaeilge in Albain roimh 1750. Comhdháil: 2000: Litríocht agus Cultúr na Gaeilge. Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh. Deireadh Fómhair 2000.
  • Women Poets of Gaelic Scotland 1650-1750. Women, Manuscript and the Four Nations. Nottingham Trent University. February 2000. 

 

 

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