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Reference Accession
P34/ NHA/P34
An Comunn Gaidhealach (Wick
Branch).
Gaelic Society founded with the aim of "...reviving and fostering interest
in the Language, Literature and Traditions of the Highlands generally".
Society founded in 1925.
Meetings held quarterly at the Carnegie Public Library and occasionally at
the Pulteneytown Academy, Wick.
Minute Books.
P34/1. 1925 - 6 June 1938.
Includes minutes of the inaugural meeting and constitution of the Society.
Also includes insertions of the syllabus of events for each year
(printed), annual typescript, statement of accounts and printed newspaper
articles on events organised by the Society.
1 item.
P34/2 . 16 October 1938 - 16
October 1953.
Includes minutes of the final meeting of the Society which was wound up
due to the "...poor attendance at the meetings during the last two or
three sessions...", 16 October 1953.
Also includes insertions.
1 item.
Miscellaneous.
P34/3 October 1935.
Newspaper cuttings on Gaelic issues from an unnoted newspaper.
2pp.
P34/ 4 [1944].
MS. notes on the death of Mr Robert MacKenzie, 49 Argyle Square, Wick,
committee member of the Society, and his family who died during an air
raid on Wick by a German bomber.
1p.
P34/5 Printed details of the
Standard Rules for Provincial Mods.
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