'Fo ghrèin loisgich nan Innsean': na h-Innseachan an Ear tro shùilean Gàidhealach
- Submitting institution
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University of Glasgow
: B - 26B - Celtic and Gaelic
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics : B - 26B - Celtic and Gaelic
- Output identifier
- 26B-02171
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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- Title of journal
- Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 141
- Volume
- LXVI
- Issue
- -
- ISSN
- 0958-5451
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- -
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/104219/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- Numerous studies exist of Gaelic-speaking emigrants particularly those settling in North America. Less attention has been devoted to other emigrant destinations, such as those where emigration was of a temporary nature. This article addresses this, focusing on Gaelic speakers in the East Indies where many Gaels spent time in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the service of the East India Company and the army. It draws on Gaelic poetry, including verse composed about East India sojourners, as well as by emigrants themselves, to understand the place occupied by the East Indies in the lives and imaginations of Gaelic speakers.
