Books, Niall O'Gallagher

Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul - An Oidhche Mus Do Sheòl Sinn (2003)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

The title of Aonghas Pàdraig’s first full-length novel means ‘The Night Before We Sailed’. Few novels have been published in Scottish Gaelic and many of those that have are aimed at children and school pupils. This makes the author’s achievement in this…

Matthew Fitt - But n Ben A-Go-Go (2000)

Who would have thought that the third millennium would blast off with a sci-fi novel written in Scots? Matthew Fitt’s debut leaves granny’s hieland hame behind and claims the Scots language for writing that is out of this world. Fitt is one of the…

William Laughton Lorimer (trans.) - The New Testament in Scots (1983)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

When the Scots Reformers adopted an English translation of the Bible, a serious blow was dealt to the status of the Scots language which was increasingly banished from the realms of learning and official culture it had occupied since the Middle Ages.

Catherine Carswell - Open the Door! (1920)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

In Alasdair Gray's Lanark, Duncan Thaw claims that 'imaginatively, Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels. That's all we've given to the world outside. It's all we've given to ourselves.' Open the Door!, whose author is probably best…