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Professor William Gillies,
Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He
has extensive research interests, including the Gaelic of the
Middle Ages, the Book of the Dean of Lismore, and the Books of
Clanranald, of which he is completing a major edition. His contribution
to Gaelic dialectology is most evident in his role in the successful
completion and publication of the Survey of the Gaelic Dialects
of Scotland (1994-7). As Project Manager from 1994-2001, he led
the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue project to its successful
conclusion. |
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Dr Anthony Harvey, Editor
of the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Medieval Latin
from Celtic Sources (DMLCS). He has been part of the DMLCS project since 1985 and
Editor since 1990. He holds a PhD in early medieval Gaelic and
British linguistics and literacy from Cambridge University’s
Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, where he had previously
gained his MA, and has lectured and published widely on these
subjects. He teaches conversational Welsh informally in Dublin,
and is currently Chairman of the Classical Association of
Ireland. |
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Colm Ó Baoill, Emeritus Professor of
Celtic, University of Aberdeen. He has research interests in
both Irish and Scottish Gaelic language and literature, including
Scottish Gaelic verse of the period 1600-1730, 17th-19th century
Irish verse, Scottish Gaelic manuscripts, the Scots-Gaelic interface
and comparative study of Irish and Scottish Gaelic. |
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Professor Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh, Professor
of Gaelic at the University of Glasgow. His
research interests include
linguistic variation in the Gaelic-speaking world (synchronic
and diachronic); Gaelic dialectology and Gaelic historical linguistics,
particularly the divergence between Irish and Scottish Gaelic,
and the emergence of Scottish Gaelic; Gaelic lexicology; Gaelic
place-names; linguistic contact between Gaelic and other languages;
and early Scottish Gaelic grammars. He is Director of the Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic (DASG) project under whose auspices the Faclair na Gàidhlig corpus is being compiled. |
