Margaret A Mackay

Biographic Data

ID808182
NAMEMargaret A Mackay
GIVEN NAMESMargaret A
FAMILY NAMEMackay
SIGNATUREMACKAY M A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Toronto
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1964
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Peter Rich Cooke (1930–2020)

    Margaret A MackayARTICLEFolklore2021

  • Stewart Forson Sanderson, 1924–2016

    Margaret A MackayARTICLEFolklore2017

  • The Carrying Stream Flows On: Celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of the School of Scottish Studies

    Open AccessJohn Randall, Margaret A Mackay et al.BOOKThe Carrying Stream Flows On:…2013

    The School of Scottish Studies came into being at the University of Edinburgh in 1951 as a research unit dedicated to ‘the study and conservation of the folk culture of Scotland’ when Professor Angus McIntosh was enabled to turn a vision which he and others had long held into reality. In that year Calum Iain Maclean was seconded from the Irish Folklore Commission to continue his collecting in Scotland, while other pioneers such as Hamish Henderso…

  • The First Sixty Years of the School of Scottish Studies

    Open AccessMargaret A MackayCHAPTERThe Carrying Stream Flows On:…2013

    The School of Scottish Studies came into being at the University of Edinburgh in 1951 as a research unit dedicated to ‘the study and conservation of the folk culture of Scotland’ when Professor Angus McIntosh was enabled to turn a vision which he and others had long held into reality. In that year Calum Iain Maclean was seconded from the Irish Folklore Commission to continue his collecting in Scotland, while other pioneers such as Hamish Henderso…

  • Perspectives on the Older Scottish Tongue

    Christian Kay, Margaret A Mackay et al.BOOKPERSPECTIVES ON THE OLDER…2005

    This book celebrates the rich diversity of the Scots language and the culture it embodies. It marks two important events in language scholarship: the completion of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) in 2001 and the publication of its final volumes in 2002.

  • Hamish Henderson (1919-2002)

    W F H Nicolaisen, Margaret A MackayARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2004

    Hamish Henderson (1919-2002) W. F. H. Nicolaisen and Margaret A. Mackay Perhaps it was something of an omen that James Scott (Hamish) Henderson's birthday, November 11, 1919, coincided with Armistice Day, the day on which the first of the two great wars of the twentieth century came de facto to an end and the weapons were silenced; for only twenty-six years later, toward the end of another six years of large-scale and devastating hostilities, Ham…

  • Folk Religion in a Calvinist Context: Hungarian Models and Scottish Examples

    Margaret A MackayARTICLEFolklore2002

    Introduction President, members of The Folklore Society, and friends: I am deeply conscious of the honour which the Society has bestowed on me by its invitation to deliver the Katharine Briggs Memorial Lecture for 2001. This annual lecture was instituted in order to commemorate the life and work of a scholar who made a lasting contribution to our subject, to its wider understanding and its extending horizons. She worked tirelessly to ensure respe…

  • Hamish Scott Henderson, 1919-2002

    Margaret A MackayARTICLEFolklore2002

    Folklorists around the world have been saddened by the death of Hamish Henderson in Edinburgh on 8 March 2002. Those who had the privilege of spending time with him will recall encounters at 27 George Square, or in Sandy Bell's down the road, Padstow on a May morning, at a ceilidh, a folk festival, or in the field. He was equally at home in the lecture hall and in the travellers' gelly. Others will remember how good he was at answering queries th…

  • Angry Island: The Story of Tristan da Cunha 1506-1963

    R W Le Maitre, Margaret A Mackay et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1964Cited by: 3