Contributed Chapters in Standard Textbooks:

1983‘Gaelic speaking in Scotland, demographic history’ (with Charles Withers), pp 109 – 114;‘Gaelic-speaking in Scotland, sociology’ pp. 114 – 115, in Derick Thomon (ed.) 1983 The Companion to Gaelic Scotland, Oxford: Blackwell ISBN 0-631-12502-7.

1983‘Scottish Gaelic and English in the Highlands’, Ch. 29 in: Trudgill, P. (ed.) 1984 Language in the British Isles, Cambridge: University Press, ISBN 0 521 24057 3 (hbk) 0 521 28409 0 (pbk) pp. 499 – 516.

1991‘The Gaelic speech-community’, Ch 3 in Alladina, S., and Edwards, V. (eds.) 1991 Multilingualism in the British Isles: Vol 1: The Older Mother Tongues and Europe, Harlow: Longmans ISBN 0-582-01965-8 CSD/ 0-582-01963-X PPR , pp ??.

1991‘Scottish Gaelic today: Social history and contemporary status’, Ch 11 in: Martin Ball (ed.) The Celtic Languages. London: Routledge ISBN 0-415-01035-7 pp. 491 – 535.

1998‘Gaelic in Scotland’, in Ailbhe Ó Corráin and Séamus Mac Mathúna, 1998 Minority Languages in Scandinavia, Britain and Ireland. Uppsala: University Press ISBN 91-554-4111-4; ISSN 1104-5515 pp.175 – 198.

2000(a) ‘Scottish Gaelic’ (with Cathlin Macaulay) in: Wirrer, J. (ed.) Minderheiten- und Regional-sprachen in Europa, Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, ISBN 3-531-13131-1 pp.46 – 63.

2000(b) ‘Scottish Gaelic’ (with Cathlin Macaulay), in: Price, G. (ed.) Languages in Britain and Ireland, Oxford: Blackwell, ISBN 0-631-21580-8 (pbk) 0-631-21581-6 (pbk) pp. 44 –5. Forthcoming ‘Gaelic in Scotland’, Ch. 12 in Britain, D. (ed.) Language in the British Isles, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Authored Books, Commissioned Reports and Monographs:

1972 Lion’s Tongue, Inverness: Club Leabhar, ISBN 902706 22 5 (pbk) 902706 29 2 (hbk).

1977 Language, Education and Social Processes in a Gaelic Community (with introduction by Basil Bernstein) London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 0 7100 8466 8.

1977 Gaelic in Scotland 1971: some sociological and demographic considerations of the 1971 Census Report for Gaelic. Hatfield Polytechnic Social Science Reports Series No SSR 11,Hatfield: Hertis Publications. ISBN 900458 08 9.

1980 Ethnic Communites: the Transmission of Language and Culture in Harris and Barra. Report to Social Science Research Council. March 1980 (with Morag MacDonald) Hatfield Polytechnic Social Sciences Reports Series No. SSR 12. Hatfield: Hertis Publications ISBN 90045818 6.

1980 Scottish Opinion on Gaelic: a report on a national attitude survey undertaken in 1981 for An Comunn Gaidhealach, Inverness. Hatfield Polytechnic Social Sciences Reports Series No SSR 14. Hatfield: Hertis Publications ISBN 90045817.

1983 Gaelic in Highland Region: the 1981 Census, report to An Comunn Gaidhealach, Inverness. (No ISBN)

1983 Gaelic Language Regeneration amongst Young People in Scotland 1971-1981 from Census Data (paper to The Future of the Celtic Nations in the EEC conference, Institute français d’Écosse / Heriot Watt University, 23 Nov 1984) Hatfield Polytechnic Social Science Reports Series No 15, ISBN 0-900458-29-1.

1983 (a) The Present Position of Gaelic in Scottish Primary Education, report to European Minority Languages in Primary Education Project, Frisian Academy, Leeuwarden, Netherlands EMU Report 39 / Hatfield Polytechnic Business and Social Sciences Series No SSR 16, Hatfield: Hertis Publications ISBN 0-90045835-60).

1987(b) ‘Occupation, Migration, and Language-maintenance in Gaelic Communities – Some Social and Demographic Aspects’, paper to Ninth International Seminar on Marginal Regions,

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye 5 – 11 July 1987. Published Hatfield Polytechnic Business and Social Sciences Occasional Papers Series no. BSS 15, Hatfield: Hertis Publications. ISBN 0-90045834-8.
1983 Gaelic language-maintenance and Viability in the Isle of Skye, report to Economic and Social Research Council. Published Hatfield Polytechnic Business and Social Sciences Reports Series No BSSR 17, Hatfield: Hertis Publications ISBN 0 90045836 4.

1991(a) Gaelic – a Past and Future Prospect. Edinburgh: Saltire Society ISBN 085411047 X.

1991(b) Forfhais agus Sgrùdaidhean mu Gnàthachadh na Gàidhlig – Research and Studies into the Maintenance of Gaelic. Conference Proceedings FASGNAG I Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, I. of Skye 11 – 13 April 1991.(No ISBN) Volume Editor.

1992 An Aghaidh nan Creag: Despite Adversity – Gaeldom’s Twentieth Century Survival and Potential, report to Comunn na Gàidhlig, Inverness (Sept 1992, No ISBN)

1993 Forfhais agus Sgrùdaidhean mu Gnàthachadh na Gàidhlig – Research and Studies into the Maintenance of Gaelic. Proceedings of Second Conference Proceedings FASGNAG II Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, I. of Skye 24 – 26 March 1993.(No ISBN) Volume Editor.

1994(a) 1991 Census: Gaelic Speakers – Monitors and Local Base Statistics: Regions, Islands Areas and Districts, report to Highlands and Islands Enterprise, and Comunn na Gàidhlig, Inverness, 21 Jan 1994.

1994(b) Gaelic in 1994 – report to E.U. Euromosaic Project, University of Wales, Bangor. (Support: EU Task Force Resources Humaines, Brussels). No ISBN.

1998 COMPASS – Proceedings of the Colloquium On Minority-language Population-censuses and Social Surveys, University of Hertfordshire 1 – 4 September 1993. ISBN 1 898543 31 3 (Support: EU Task Force Resources Humaines) Volume Editor.

2000 An Independent Academic Study on Cornish, report to Government Office for the South West. On line at: www.gosw.gov.uk/gosw , also in Ogmios No. 2.3 Autumn (31 October) 2000 ISSN 1471 – 0382 pp. 7 – 9.

2001 Gaelic – Prospects for Survival (Text and PowerPoint Presentation to CNAG Comhdhail

2001 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Inverness: CNAG (No ISBN).

Kenneth MacKinnon

Professor Kenneth MacKinnon 23rd. August 2002