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Bibliography

William
Gillies
s. xx–xxi

21 publications between 1981 and 2014 indexed
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Works edited

Harding, D. W., and William Gillies (eds), Celtic connections: proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Celtic Studies, vol. 2: Archaeology, numismatics and historical linguistics, East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2005.
Black, Ronald, William Gillies, and Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (eds), Celtic connections: proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Celtic Studies, vol. 1: Language, literature, history, culture, East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1999.
Gillies, William (ed.), Gaelic and Scotland / Alba agus a’ Gàidhlig, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1989.

Contributions to journals

Gillies, William, “Music and Gaelic strict-metre poetry”, Studia Celtica 44 (2010): 111–134.
Gillies, William, “Varia II. Early Irish lía, Scottish Gaelic liutha”, Ériu 54 (2004): 253–256.
Gillies, William, “The ‘British’ genealogy of the Campbells”, Celtica 23 (1999): 82–95.
Gillies, William, “Forms and meanings of Scottish Gaelic leugh ‘read’”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 49–50 (1997): 243–249.
Gillies, William, “A death-bed poem ascribed to Muireadhach Albanach”, Celtica 21 (1990): 156–172.
Gillies, William, “Arthur in Gaelic tradition. Part II: romances and learned lore”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 3 (Summer, 1982): 41–75.
Gillies, William, “Arthur in Gaelic tradition. Part I: folktales and ballads”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 2 (Winter, 1981): 47–72.

Contributions to edited collections or authored works

Gillies, William, “From milk-cow blues to hardheaded women: decoding the Bard Macintyre”, in: Georgia Henley, Paul Russell, and Joseph F. Eska (eds), Rhetoric and reality in medieval Celtic literature: studies in honor of Daniel F. Melia, 11-12, Hamilton, NY: Colgate University Press, 2014. 47–62.
Gillies, William, “‘A well of wine in her stern’”, in: Pamela OʼNeill (ed.), The land beneath the sea: essays in honour of Anders Ahlqvist’s contribution to Celtic studies in Australia, 14, Sydney: Celtic Studies Foundation, University of Sydney, 2013. 75–86.
Gillies, William, “Scottish Gaelic”, in: Martin J. Ball, and Nicole Müller (eds), The Celtic languages, 2nd ed., London, New York: Routledge, 2009. 230–304.
Gillies, William, “The lion’s tongues: languages in Scotland to 1314”, in: Thomas Owen Clancy, and Murray Pittock (eds), The Edinburgh history of Scottish literature, 3 vols, vol. 1: From Columba to the Union (until 1707), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 52–62.
Gillies, William, “Gaelic literature in the later middle ages: The Book of the Dean and beyond”, in: Thomas Owen Clancy, and Murray Pittock (eds), The Edinburgh history of Scottish literature, 3 vols, vol. 1: From Columba to the Union (until 1707), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 219–225.
Gillies, William, “A poem on the land of the Little People”, in: Sharon Arbuthnot, and Kaarina Hollo (eds), ‘Fil súil nglais: a grey eye looks back’: a festschrift in honour of Colm Ó Baoill, Ceann Drochaid, Perthshire: Clann Tuirc, 2007. 33–52.  
Edition and English translation of a poem (18 qq) in the Book of the Dean of Lismore beg. ‘Enyt machtyr / is ma er nyilt ra milezow’, normalised in Gaelic orthography to Iongnadh m’eachtra, 's mé ar ndeaghailt ré m’fhileadhaibh.
Edition and English translation of a poem (18 qq) in the Book of the Dean of Lismore beg. ‘Enyt machtyr / is ma er nyilt ra milezow’, normalised in Gaelic orthography to Iongnadh m’eachtra, 's mé ar ndeaghailt ré m’fhileadhaibh.
Gillies, William, “Anders Ahlqvist: scholar, gentleman and teacher”, in: Bernadette Smelik, Rijcklof Hofman, Camiel Hamans, and David Cram (eds), A companion in linguistics: a Festschrift for Anders Ahlqvist on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Nijmegen: Stichting Uitgeverij de Keltische Draak, 2005. 13–17.
Gillies, William, “A seventeenth-century linguistic and metrical tract”, in: Bernadette Smelik, Rijcklof Hofman, Camiel Hamans, and David Cram (eds), A companion in linguistics: a Festschrift for Anders Ahlqvist on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Nijmegen: Stichting Uitgeverij de Keltische Draak, 2005. 66–79.
Gillies, William, “The Clanranald histories: authorship and purpose”, in: Geraint Evans, Bernard Martin, and Jonathan M. Wooding (eds), Origins and revivals: proceedings of the First Australian Conference of Celtic Studies, 3, Sydney: Centre for Celtic Studies, University of Sydney, 2000. 315–340.
Gillies, William, “Ffigur Alexander: tystiolaeth o brydyddiaeth farddol Aeleg”, in: Morfydd E. Owen, and Brynley F. Roberts (eds), Beirdd a thywysogion: barddoniaeth llys yng Nghymru, Iwerddon a’r Alban: cyflwynedig i R. Geraint Gruffydd, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1996. 219–236.
Gillies, William, “Heroes and ancestors”, in: Bo Almqvist, Séamas Ó Catháin, and Pádraig Ó Héalaí (eds), Fiannaíocht: essays on the Fenian tradition of Ireland and Scotland — The heroic process: form, function and fantasy in folk epic, 54, 55, Dublin and Dun Laoghaire: An Cumann le Béaloideas Éireann, 1987. 57–73.

As honouree

McLeod, Wilson, Abigail Burnyeat, Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart, Thomas Owen Clancy, and Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (eds), Bile ós chrannaibh: a Festschrift for William Gillies, Tigh a' Mhaide, Brig o' Turk, Perthshire: Clann Tuirc, 2010. xxv + 494 pp.

As honouree

McLeod, Wilson, Abigail Burnyeat, Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart, Thomas Owen Clancy, and Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (eds), Bile ós chrannaibh: a Festschrift for William Gillies, Tigh a' Mhaide, Brig o' Turk, Perthshire: Clann Tuirc, 2010. xxv + 494 pp..