title: Reading the Gaelic Landscape: Leughadh Aghaidh na Tire
author:  John Murray 
description: <span><span style="font-weight:bold;">John Murray</span><span> is Director of Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK.</span></span>
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  Reading the Gaelic Landscape
  
  Leughadh Aghaidh na Tìre
  
  John Murray / Iain Moireach
  
  Whittles Publishing
  
  Published by
  
   **Whittles Publishing Ltd.** ,
  
  Dunbeath,
  
  Caithness, KW6 6EG,
  
  Scotland, UK
  
   **www.whittlespublishing.com**
  
  © 2014 John Murray/ Iain Moireach
  
  reprinted 2014
  
  _All rights reserved._
  
  _No part of this publication may be reproduced,_ _stored in a retrieval
  system, or transmitted,_ _in any form or by any means, electronic,_
  
  _mechanical, recording or otherwise_
  
  _without prior permission of the publishers._
  
  ISBN 978-184995-100-5
  
  Printed by D S Smith
  
  CONTENTS
  
  Acknowledgements
  ......................................................................... v
  Preface
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  vii 1: Introduction
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  2: A Brief History of Gaelic in Scotland ............