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Explore the Library’s books, journals and online resources
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The Society was founded in
1830 as An Comunn na Gaelic or Gaelic Society. The library, deposited since
1973, contains c.700 volumes, mainly on the history of Scotland and Scottish
Gaelic literature, with very small collections on other Gaelic languages
and peoples. About twenty books are pre-1851, and there is a collection
of c.200 tracts of 1649-1776 in nineteen volumes purchased by the Society
c.1835 from an unnamed literary gentleman. They mainly concern the Jacobite
rebellions of 1715 and 1745, with Sir George MacKenzie's Jus
Regium,
1684. The collection also includes interesting ephemera (music and song-sheets)
and some archive and manuscript material.
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Last modified 25 January 2005
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