Bibliography

A Chronological Bibliography of the printed works of Alexander Carmichael published during his lifetime

Carmina Gadelica is Alexander Carmichael's masterwork, the culmination of decades of collecting throughout the Highlands. But there is much more of Carmichael in print than Carmina alone. By clicking on the links, you can read Carmichael the newspaper correspondent, the columnist, the essayist, the antiquarian, the ethnographer - and the polemicist. His printed work allows us to examine his changing interests, trace his networks of correspondents, and investigate how his ideas for a folklore collection came together as Carmina Gadelica.

Abbreviations:

CG
Carmina Gadelica
PSAS
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
TGSG
Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Glasgow
TGSI
Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness

1862

1870

1871

1872

also:

1873

1874

also:

  • Nether-Lochaber, 'Nether-Lochaber column', Inverness Courier, lv, no.2960 (6 August 1874), 2-3: contribution by Alexander Carmichael.

1875

1876

1880

1884

1885

also:

  • Nether-Lochaber, 'Nether-Lochaber column', Inverness Courier, lxviii, no.4048 (6 August 1885), 2: mostly Alexander Carmichael - dance traditions.

1886

1887

also:

  • Nether-Lochaber, 'Nether-Lochaber column', Inverness Courier, lxx, no.4289 (16 September 1887), 3: Lismore, tradition concerning St. Fillan, not necessarily, but possibly by Carmichael?
  • Nether-Lochaber, 'Nether-Lochaber column', Inverness Courier, lxx, no.4293 (30 September 1887), 3: Lismore traditions, not necessarily, but possibly by Carmichael?

1888

1889

also:

  • Map of Iona, ground plan, and 2 views of the Abbey (Iona: J. McCormick & W. Muir, 1889): with Carmichael's help?

1891

1893

also:

1894

1895

1900

1905

reprinted in 1914:

1907

  • 'The Ruskins', Celtic Review, iii (1907), 343-51.

1908

1909

1910

1911

1912

also:

1926

  • J.G. Mackay (ed.), 'Gruagach an Eilein Uaine', Scottish Gaelic Studies i (1926), 156-87.