Proceedings of the First North American Congress of Celtic Studies Held at Ottawa from 26th-30th March, 1986

Edited by Gordon W. MacLennan. — Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 1988. — X, 624 p. — ISBN 0-9693260-0.Contents: The Celts in North America: Cyril Byrne: lrish Language in Newfoundland. An tUrramach Domhnall Mac Gill-Iosa: Ministeir Gàidhealach Ann An Canada. Donald E. Meek: Evangelicalism and Emigration: Aspects of the Rule of Dissenting Evangelicalism in Highland Emigration to Canada. Brian McKee and John Devries: Speakers of the Celtic Languages in North America: Clues from Demography. Kenneth Nilsen: Collecting Celtic Folklore in the United States. John Shaw: Observations on the Cape Breton Gàidhealtachd and its Relevance to Present-Day Celtic Studies. Computers as a Research Tool in Celtic Studies: K.J. George: The Use of a Mainframe Computer to Analyse Cornish Orthography. Andrew Hawke: The Computer as a Research Tool in Celtic Studies. Daniel F. Melia: A Computer-Assisted Index of the “Corpus Iuris Hibernici”. Ciarán Ó Duibhín: Some Computer Applications to the Lexis and Grammar of Ulster Irish. Early Celtic Linguistics: Leszek Bednarczuk: The ltalo-Celtic Hypothesis from the lndo-European Point of View. Javier de Hoz: Hispano-Celtic and Celtiberian. D. Ellis Evans: Celtic Origins. León Fleuriot: New Documents on Ancient Celtic and the Relationship Between Brittonic and Continental Celtic. Karl H. Schmidt, On the Reconstruction of Proto-Celtic. Irish: James Blake: Priest Against Poet: The Misfortunes of Irish Gaelic Literature During the Early Nineteenth Century. Doroty Bray: Heroic Tradition in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints: A Study in Hagio-Biographical Patterning. Noel Hamilton: Aboirtí Scoilte Dobhriothartha. Noel Hamilton: “Ancient” Irish Music. Alan Harrison: Tricksters and Entertainers in Irish Tradition. Mary A. Ludwig: Friendship and Kinship in Irish Society: Ancient and Modern Parallels. Proinsias Mac Cana: Placenames and Mythology in Irish Tradition: Places, Pilgrimages and Things. Uáitéar Mac Gearailt: On Textual Correspondences in Early Irish Heroic Tales. Breandán O hAichir: Foinse Bhréagach Miotais A Bhí Ag Yeats. William Sayers: The Bound and the Binding: The Lyre in Early Ireland. Gearóid Stockman: Linguistic Trends in the Terminal Stage of Q-Celtic Dialects. Scottish: Donald Macaulay: On the Order of Elements in Scottish Gaelic Clause Structure and Some Related Linguistic Problems. John MacInnes: Family Tradition in the Isle of Skye: Clann Aonghuis - The MacInneses. Dòmhnall E. Meek: Laoidhean Na Féinne Ann An Dualchas Nan Gàidheal. Damien Ó Muirí: Gender of the Noun in Scottish Gaelic. Welsh: Sioned Davies: “Pedeir Keinc Y Mabinogi” – A Case for Multiple Authorship. Geraint Gruffydd: Editing the “Gogynfeirdd”. Robert Owen Jones: Language Variation and Social Stratification: Linguistic Change in Progress. Kathryn A. Klar and Eve E. Sweetser: Remarks on the Development of Medieval Welsh Metrics. Ann Martin: “Enchanted Games”: Adventure and Game in the Middle Welsh Romances. Brendan O Hehir: Manuscript Sources of the Gododdin. Marie E. Surridge: Romance and Anglo-Saxon Elements in the Poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym. Breton: Claude L.Evans: Women’s Names in Early Brittany. Jean Le Du: Les Études Dialectales Bretonnes: Bilan et Perspectives. Modern Celtic: Birgit Bramsbäck: A Plea for Celtic Studies/Celtic Languages as a University Discipline. Lois Kuter: Pan-Celticism – Past and Future. Gearóid Mac Eoin: The Decline of the Celtic Languages. Abstracts. Acknowledgements. Members of the Congress.