Eighth International Conference on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster

The Columba Centre
Islay Ionad Chaluim Chille, Íle
£100 (£80 for students, unwaged and members of The Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster)

The conference programme includes:

• Plenary papers on the Gaelic of South Argyll (George Jones)
• The place-names of Islay (Margaret Storrie)
• The language of radical poets in the 1790s (Andrew Noble)
• The Islay poet William Livingstone (Donald Meek and Christopher Whyte)
• Orwell and Jura (Christopher Small)

Shorter presentations will also be given; the full list is to be confirmed but suggested topics include:

• Scottish clan history and place-names in Ulster
• George Campbell Hay as a Scots Renaissance poet
• John Jamieson, father of Scottish lexicography
• Shetlanders speak, Orcadians sing
• A universalist perspective on the Scottish varieties of English
• Bilingualism and Modern Scottish Poetry
• The Seanchas Íle project

Contact: J. Derric McClure, Chairman, FRLSU