Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G402566
The Book of Clanranald
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Alexander Cameron Alexander Macbain John Kennedy Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber, Martha Meeks
Proof corrections by Hilary Lavelle, Beatrix Färber, Janet Crawford
Funded by The HEA via the LDT Project and
School of History, University College, Cork
1. First draft, revised and corrected.
Extent of text: 37415 words
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Text ID Number: G402566
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Sources
Manuscript source(s)- Red Book of Clanranald, Royal Museum of Scotland.
- Black Book of Clanranald, Royal Museum of Scotland.
Editions- A new edition is in preparation by Prof. em. Willie Gillies with the Scottish Gaelic Texts Society. At http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-languages-cultures/celtic-scottish-studies/research-publications/research/internal-projects/clanranald an article by him about the subject is available online.
Literature- Malcolm Laing, A History of Scotland, (Edinburgh 1802) [with a dissertation on the supposed authenticity of Ossian's Poems'].
- Malcolm Laing, The Poems of Ossian (...) with notes, Vol. 1, (Edinburgh 1805).
- Derick S. Thomson, 'The MacMhuirich bardic family', Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness 43 (1960–63) 276–304.
- Ronald Black, 'The genius of Cathal MacMhuirich', Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness 50 (1976–78) 327–66.
- Ronald Black, 'In search of the Red Book of Clanranald', Clan Donald Magazine 8 (1979) 43–51.
- William Gillies, 'The Books of Clanranald', in: Charles W. J. Withers (ed), The Companion to Gaelic Scotland (Oxford 1983).
- John Bannerman, The Beatons: a medical kindred in the classical Gaelic tradition (Edinburgh 1986).
- William Gillies, 'The Classical Tradition', in: R. D. S. Jack, (ed), The History of Scottish Literature, volume 1: Origins to 1600 (Mediaeval and Renaissance) (Aberdeen 1988) 245–262.
- William Gillies, Sources of the Books of Clanranald, Etudes Celtiques 29 (1992) 459–460.
- Anja Gunderloch, 'Eighteenth Century Literary Fraud and Oral Tradition: the 'Real' Ossian' in: Dietrich Scheunemann (ed.): Orality, Literacy and Modern Media, (Columbia 1996); 44–61.
- William Gillies, 'Alexander Carmichael and Clann Mhuirich', Scottish Gaelic Studies 20 (2000) 1–66.
- William Gillies, 'The Clanranald Histories: authorship and purpose', in: G. Evans, B. Martin and J. Wooding (eds), Origins and Revivals: Proceedings of the First Australian Conference of Celtic Studies (Sydney 2001) 315–340.
- John Shaw, 'What Alexander Carmichael did not print: The Cliar Sheanchain, Clanranald's Fool and related Traditions', Béaloideas: The Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society 70 (2002) 99–126.
- Benjamin Hazard, 'At O'Neill's right hand: Flaithrí Ó Maoil Chonaire and the Red Hand of Ulster', History Ireland 18/1 (January to February 2010) 18–21 (available on JSTOR).
The edition used in the digital edition- Alexander Cameron, Alexander Macbain , John Kennedy , The Book of Clanranald in Reliquiae Celticae, Ed. Alexander Macbain, M. A. and Rev. John Kennedy. , Inverness, The Northern Counties Newspaper and Printing and Publishing Company, Limited (1894) volume 2page 148–309
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This edition covers pp 148–309. The English translation is available in a separate file on CELT, and is also available in.pdf format at archive.org.
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Profile Description
Created: The original was compiled in the 17th to 18th century; the Red Book by Niall MacMhuirich; the Black Book by various scribes, the main scribe being Christopher Beaton.
Date range: c. 1600–1800.
Use of language
Language: [SGA] The text is in Scottish Gaelic of the 17th to 18th century.
Language: [EN] The Introduction is in English, so are a small number of words in the main text.
Language: [FR] An occasional word in French occurs in the Introduction.
Language: [LA] An occasional word in Latin occurs in the Introduction.
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