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In 1942, dyestuff and chemical merchant James Crawford died, leaving a portion of his estate to the university to found a chair in Celtic language and literature. The chair was established in 1956 using these funds as well as contributions from the university's Ossianic Society and the Ross Trust.
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between 1972 and 1983. He worked outside academia from 1984 to 1995 in Dublin and North Wales, before taking over the chair in Glasgow in 1995. Ó Dochartaigh was succeeded in 2005 by American academic
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was a disciple. He argued that the confusion is due to an eighth century scribal spelling error, for which the similarities of "u" and "n" in the Insular script of the period were responsible.
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by the university in 2007. When Thomson retired in 1991, he was succeeded by a fellow Aberdeen academic, Donald MacAulay, who had succeeded Thomson as editor of
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The Chair of Celtic is based within the Department of Celtic and Gaelic, part of the School of Humanities in the College of Arts.
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in 1978. MacAulay took over the chair in 1991, remaining at the university until 1995.
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literature. In 2001, he put forward a theory that St Ninian, an eighth century
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Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities Parliamentary constituency
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was appointed to the chair. Thomson, also known under his
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Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute
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University of Glasgow Department of Celtic and Gaelic
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Chair of Celtic, Glasgow
University of Glasgow

Thomas Clancy
Angus Matheson
www.gla.ac.uk/celtic
University of Glasgow
Angus Matheson
Derick Thomson
Gaelic name
University of Aberdeen
Doctor of Letters
Cathair Ó Dochartaigh
Queen's University Belfast
PhD
University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen
Thomas Owen Clancy
New York University
University of Edinburgh
Dark Age
Celtic
missionary
Pictish peoples
Scotland
St Finnian
St Columba
Angus Matheson
Derick Thomson
Thomas Clancy

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