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May 24, 2025
Piping treasure on display in ‘The Piper’s Whim’ Exhibition TAGS: bagpipes | Gaelic | music | New College Library | nineteenth-century | rare books | Scotland Currently on display at St Cecilia’s Hall, Cowgate, Edinburgh is an instruction book on the bagpipe (in Gaelic Pibroch, or, Ceol mor, or, literally, Big music) from New College Library’s Gaelic Collection. …Continue reading →
Bagpipe music of the Isles TAGS: bagpipes | Gaelic | music | New College Library | nineteenth-century | rare books | Scotland I’m delighted to announce that just over 400 items which together form the Gaelic Collections at New College Library have now been catalogued online and their details can now be browsed …Continue reading →
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