| Reference Number | 316 |
| Title | Gun Fhois |
| Author | Watt, Eilidh |
| Editor | N/A |
| Date Of Edition | 1987 |
| Date Of Language | late 20c |
| Date Of Language Ed | 1950-1999 |
| DateMacro | Late 20th c. |
| Date Of Language Notes | |
| Publisher | Macdonald Publishers |
| Place Published | Edinburgh |
| Volume | N/A |
| Location | National, academic, and local libraries |
| Geographical Origins | Skye |
| Geographical Origins Ed | Skye |
| GeoMacro | Skye, Raasay and Small Isles |
| GeoX | -6.4981 |
| GeoY | 57.3626 |
| Geographical Origins Notes | |
| Register | Literature, Prose |
| Register Ed | Literature, Prose |
| Genre | Literature |
| Medium | Prose |
| Rating | B (TBC)
A selection of some of the best short story writers in Gaelic.
Eight short stories by the Skye author. |
| Alternative Author Name | N/A |
| Manuscript Or Edition | Ed. |
| Size And Condition | 21 cm |
| Short Title | Gun Fhois |
| Reference Details | GUL: JNF 491.638 WAT2 |
| Number Of Pages | 112 |
| Gaelic Text By | N/A |
| Illustrator | N/A |
| Social Context | Eilidh Watt née MacAskill (1908-1996) was born on 22 January 1908 in Skinidin, the Isle of Skye, to Malcolm MacAskill, blacksmith, and his wife, Christy MacLean. After Portree High School, she attended the University of Glasgow. She pursued a career as a teacher and taught English and Latin at Tarbert, Harris, and at Portree High School. After the disruption of the Second World War she rose to become head of Moss-side Secondary School, Cowdenbeath, Fife. After marriage to Robert Watt they moved to his native Dunfermline. Upon her retirement in 1969 she returned to the Isle of Skye, where she lived until she passed away in Inverness on 25 August 1996. She was survived by her son Robert Watt. Watt was a prolific Gaelic writer as well as a broadcaster and her metier was the short story, of which she published two collections, one of which is A’ Bhratach Dhealrach (see Text 40) She also published two books for children. |
| Contents | Gun Fhois is a work of 12 short stories whose leading motif is an awareness of the supernatural and in particular second sight, a faculty which the author professed to possess. |
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| Language | The stories contain a wide variety of terminology on different subjects, and contain good examples of Gaelic idiom. There is some terminology relating to the weather and to nature. |
| Orthography | The spelling conforms generally to the orthography of late twentieth century. Acute and grave accents are both retained. Accents appear on capital letters. There are some printing errors and inconsistencies in orthography. |
| Edition | First edition. |
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| Further Reading | Ewan, Elizabeth, Innes, Sue, Reynolds, Siân and Pipes, Rose (eds.), The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women: From the Earliest Times to 2014 (Edinburgh, 2007: Edinburgh University Press), p. 371.
Macdonald, Norman and Cailean Maclean, The Great Book of Skye, vol. 1 (Portree, 2014: Great Book Publishing), p. 519.
Watson, Moray, An Introduction to Gaelic Fiction (Edinburgh, 2011: Edinburgh University Press).
Watt, Eilidh, A’ Bhratach Dhealrach (Inverness, 1972: Club Leabhar).
Watt, Eilidh, Là a’ Choin Duibh (Inverness, 1972: Club Leabhar).
Watt, Eilidh, ‘Some Personal Experience of the Second Sight’, in Hilda R Ellis Davidson (ed.), The Seer in Celtic and Other Traditions (Edinburgh, c1989: John Donald), pp. 25-36. |
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| NumWords | 38833 |
