GAELIC CHAIR
ESTABLISHMENT AT GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. Glasgow University, which was established close on 500 years ago, is still without a Gaelic Chair. Gaelic is the national language of Scotland, and the tongue which was spoken on the banks of Clyde at least down to the age oi Malcolm Canmore, and though that is more than 800 years ago, it is not by any means a long period in the history of a language. There’ are Celtic Chairs in universities even on the Continent of Europe, but that honour has not, as yet, extended to Glasgow University, the city which by far has the largest population of Gaels and their descendants in the whole world. There has been a Chair of Celtic in Edinburgh alone for more than half a century. Gaelic is taught in Glasgow, as it is taught in Aberdeen University, but the one who is teaching it has no higher status than a “lecturer.” The Ossianic Club in Glasgow is determined to collect £25,000 for a Chair.. It has £l,OOO already, and is appealing to Gaels throughout the world for the remainder.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1938, Page 2
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