Place names
Were the Highlands ever colonised? And other stupid questions
Author / Creator: Gemma Smith
Media type: Talk
Date published: 2026
Reflections about things like decolonisation, culture, borders, and the apparently terminal decline of The West.
Reading the Gaelic Landscape; Leughadh Aghaidh Na Tire
Author / Creator: John Murray
Media type: Book
Date published: 2016
How many people have looked at a map of the Highlands and been intrigued and yet, at the same time, felt excluded by the wealth and strangeness of the place names recorded?
Creag Ghuanach
Author / Creator: Gemma Smith
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
One in a series of explorations of Gaelic place names