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Margaret Bennett (Scotland)
Singer, folklorist, broadcaster and prize-winning author, voted "Woman of the Year 2003"
by Celtic Women International for “lifelong services to Scottish culture at home and
abroad”.
"One of the major figures of the modern Scottish revival" — Hamish Henderson
Featured singer on Martyn Bennett’s acclaimed CD "Glen Lyon" —
Dirty Linen : "Glen Lyon — one of the most significant, interesting
and powerful releases that either Bennett has been involved with in their many
combined years of music making." September…2002
www.margaretbennett.co.uk
PUBLICATIONS
Books
THE LAST STRONGHOLD: Scottish Gaelic Traditions of Newfoundland,
(200 pp.), co-published by Breakwater Books, St. John's, Newfoundland and Canongate
Publishers, Edinburgh, l989. (Winner of the Michaelis Ratcliffe Prize for Folklore)
Scottish Customs from the Cradle to the Grave, (300 pages + 16 pp.
photographs), Polygon, Edinburgh, 1992. Reprinted 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000,
2001. (On Scottish Best Sellers List, 1992) Second edition [updated], 2004
(Edinburgh: Birlinn)
Oatmeal and the Catechism: Scottish Gaelic Settlers in Quebec,
(325 pp) John Donald, Edinburgh and McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 1998.
Second edition, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2004. Winner of the Canadian Historical Society’s
Cleo Award for History.
Then Another Thing…. Remembered in Perthshire, (60 pp), with Doris Rougvie,
Perth & Kinross Council, Museums Dept., Perth, 2000.
Edited work: "Recollections of an Argyllshire Drover" & Other West Highland
Chronicles by Eric R. Cregeen, Birlinn: 2004
"See When You Look Back…." Clydeside Reminiscences of the Home Front, 1939—45, Glasgow,
2005.
Chapters in / Contributions to Books
"Folkways and Religion of the Quebec Hebrideans" (100 pp.) in Cultural Retention
and Demographic Change: Studies of the Hebridean Scots in the Eastern
Townships of Quebec, ed. Laurel Doucette, the National Museum of Man Mercury
Series, no. 34, published by the National Museums of Canada, Ottowa, l980.
Two contributions, 'Scottish Folksong’ and 'Hebridean Foodways’ in For What Time
I am in this World: Stories from Mariposa, ed. Bill Usher & Linda
Page-Harper, published by Peter Martin Associates Ltd., Toronto, l977.
"A Codroy Valley Milling Frolic" in Folklore Studies in Honour of Herbert Halpert:
A Festschrift, ed. K.S. Goldstein and N.V. Roseneberg, Memorial University of
Newfoundland Folklore and Language Publication Series, St. John's, Newfoundland,
l980. pp. 99-110.
Eight items, including "First Impressions of a New World"; "Learning the Language";
"Novel Situations"; "Life Among Strangers"; "Tales of Lying"; and several other
short contributions from my collection of oral tradition recorded from
Hebridean-Quebecers, published in chapters 2,3,7,8,9 in Nothing But Stars: Leaves
from the Immigrant Saga, edited by Magnus Einarson, National Museum of Man
Mercury Series, no. 5l published by the National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, l984.
pp. 19, 38, 47, 56, 59, 81, 93, 113.
"Plant Lore in Gaelic Scotland", a chapter of Flora of the Outer Hebrides by R.
Pankhurst, published by British Museum of Natural History, London, May l991, pp 56-60.
"1690-1990: Balquhidder Revisited", a chapter in The Good People: New Fairylore
Essays, ed. by Peter Narvaez, published by Garland Publishing, U.S.A., Oct. l991.
"Local Dimensions in Oral Tradition" in Scottish Culture: The Local Dimension,
Proceedings at a Meeting of the Library Association Local Studies Group held on
March 21, l990 in Glasgow. Editor Don Martin, Motherwell, l991. [pp. 11-19]
"The Folklore of Plants in Scotland", in Plants and People: Economic Botany in Northern Europe, 800—1800, edited by J.H. Dickson and R.R. Mill, (Procedings from the1993 Symposium of the Royal Botanical Society of Scotland, Plants and People), Edinburgh University Press, 1994.
"The Pot of Gold" in Legends Told in Canada, compiled by Edith Fowke, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1994.
Contributions to the Dictionary of the Folklore of Plants in Britain and Ireland, edited by Roy Vickery, British Museum of Natural History, London, 1996.
"Waters of Life and Health: Well-Worshipping in Scotland", [translated into Russian, summary in English],Proceedings of the International Conference on Ethnic Traditional Culture and Folk Knowledge, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1995.
"Introduction" to The Nineties Collection, T.M.S.A. and Canongate, Edinburgh, 1995.
'Hebridean Childhood' and 3 other contributions in Hebridean Odyssey, compiled and
edited by M. Sinclair & M. Newton, Polygon, Edinburgh, 1996.
'Canntaireachd’, in Companion to Irish Traditional Music, edited by Fintan
Valleley, Dublin, 1999.
‘Clarsach’, in Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Dublin, 1999.
‘Ossianic ballads’, in Companion to Irish Traditional Music Dublin, 1999.
‘Panygeric’, in Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Dublin, 1999.
‘Psalms’, in Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Dublin, 1999.
‘Puirt-a-beul’, in Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Dublin, 1999.
‘Scottish Gaelic lyrical songs’, in Companion to Irish Traditional M usic Dublin, 1999.
‘The Ireland-Scotland link’, in Companion to Irish Traditional Music Dublin, 1999.
‘Waulking songs’, in Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Dublin, 1999.
“From Kennedy Fraser to the Jimmy Shandrix Experience in Five Generations” in
Crosbhealach an Cheoil: The Crossroads Conference: Tradition and
Change, Dublin, 1999.
Foreword to Lewis, by Christina MacDonald, Acair, Stornoway, 1998.
Foreword to Ainmean Gaidhlig Lusan [The Gaelic Names of Plants] by
Joan Clark and Iain MacDonald, Belfast 1999.
“Céilidh", definition in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,
London, 2000.
‘Calendar Customs in Scotland’, in The Oxford Companion to Scottish History,
2001. ‘Courtship and Marriage in Scotland’ in The Oxford Companion to Scottish
History, 2001.
‘Childbirth and Infancy in Scotland’ in The Oxford Companion to Scottish
History, 2001. ‘Stories of the Supernatural: From Local Memorate to Scottish
Legend’ in “Fantasticall Ymaginatiounis”: The Supernatural in Scottish
Culture, ed. Lizanne Henderson, forthcoming, 2001.
‘So Many Steamers Ago: Memories of an English Nurse in Newfoundland in the 1930s’ in
A Festschrift for John Widdowson, ed. Malcolm Jones, Sheffield, 2003.
‘Being Scottish’, in Being Scottish, ed. by Tom Divine & Paddy Logue, Edinburgh
University Press, Edinburgh, 2002.
‘Traditional Song and Music in Scotland’ in SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL:
APPALACHIA, MALI, SCOTLAND, published for the 37th Annual Smithsonian Folklife
Festival, Washington, DC, 2003 [pp 77—80, ISBN1056—6805]
‘From the Quebec-Hebrideans to ‘les Écossais-Québecois’: Tracing the Evolution of
a Scottish Cultural Identity in the Eastern Townships’, in C. Ray Hyphenated Scots,
Univ. of Alabama Press, 2004.
Entries in forthcoming Scottish Dictionary of Biography: Kitty MacLeod and
Norah Montgomerie
Articles (selected)
“Scottish Gaelic, English, and French: Some Aspects of the Macaronic Traditions of
the Codroy Valley, Newfoundland” in Regional Languages Studies ... Newfoundland
, St. John's, Newfoundland, May l972, pp. 25-30.
“Gaelic Song Traditions in Newfoundland”, By Word of Mouth, Journal of the
Scottish Oral History Group, Edinburgh, l987. Scottish Gaelic Emigrant Traditions’
in Tocher, No. 42, a periodical of the School of Scottish Studies, 1990.(37 of 80
pages) Tocher, No 44, 1992. Based on fieldwork; 26 of the 64 pages are from my
fieldwork; the rest from the work of colleagues. Tocher, No 45, 1993. Based on my
fieldwork and that of Dr. William Montgomerie, and including a short article about
his work with Scottish ballads; 19 of the 64 pages are from my work; the rest from
the work of colleagues. Tocher, No 47, 1994. “Weather sayings from
Bannfshire”, pp. 310—312.
“Ghosts and Apparitions” (Review article) in Cencrastus, No. 38, Edinburgh,
l990.
“The Pipers' Curiosity” in The Piping Times, Vol. 43, July l991, pp. 25—32.
“Parlez Moi de Bretagne, d'Ireland, d'Ecosse” in C.B.C. Journal, Montreal,
1991, pp. 58-59 [in French].
“Gaelic Song in Eastern Canada: Twentieth Century Reflections”, in Folksongs:
Chansons, a special edition of Canadian Folklore Canadien, Vol. 14, 2, Ottawa,
Canada, 1992.
“Brose and Bannock Day” (pp. 131—132), and with Emily Lyle “Carryanchor Night”, pp.
132—134 in Scottish Studies, No. 31, 1994
“Musical Traditons of the Scots in Newfoundland”, The London Journal of Canadian
Studies 1993.
“Stepdancing: why we must learn from past mistakes”, in The West Highland Free
Press, Oct. 14, 1994.
‘Traditions of the Ceilidh’, in Celtic Heritage, Halifax, NS, Canada, 1999.
‘Gaelic Through and Through: the Poetry of Donand John MacDonald’ (review article),
Cencrastus, Nov. 1999.
‘One and Two Percent: Scottish Gaelic Folklore Studies in Newfoundland and Quebec’,
Proceedings from the conference FOLKLORE 150 at The University of Sheffield
(July, 1996) in Lore and Language, Vol. 15, No. 1—2, Sheffield, pp. 128—140.
‘Scottish Customs of Christmas and New Year’ (The University of Edinburgh
Journal, 1994)
‘The authentic voices of Cape Breton’s tradition-bearers’, West Highland Free
Press, March 6, 1998
‘Questions of Taste and Aesthetics: The Gaels’ Perspective versus a
World View of Gaelic Singing’, the Canadian folk Music Bulletin de musique
folklorique canadienne, Vol. 32, No. 2, June 1998, (pp. 25 – 28).
‘John Francis Campbell of Islay: Iain Og Ile’ in Journal of the
Clan Campbell Society (U.K.), No. 29, 2002. Tradition and Change: Reflections
on Childhood Celebration of Hallowe’en, (forthcoming Carole Carpenter edn,
Canadian Folklore Canadien, Toronto)
‘Beyond the Border: Sir Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy’, The Journal of The Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott Club, Edinburgh, 2004
‘Putting Muirkirk back on the Map: A little lotus in the middle of mud’, (re. the
work of sculptor and artist Kirti Mandir), The Scots Magazine, June 2005.
‘Cardinal Points: Images of Emigration in the work of Scottish Artist Will MacLean,
exhibition catalogue, 2000 tour of USA & Canada (forthcoming in UK).
On-line publication
‘Tartan Jam’ — Teachers’ notes and class ‘Activity Sheets’ for Scottish musical
traditions commissioned by Channel 4 (Schools).
Introduction to Scottish Traditional Music (with a glossary of key vocabulary)
A Feeling the pulse
Feeling the rhythm
Language Work
The Scottish bagpipes
Accordion and fiddle facts
The clarsach
Music and Language
Singing a round
Come to the Dance!
Tone, texture and mood
Images in Composition and Arrangement
Prizes and awards for books and teaching
Joint first prize winner of the Michaelis-Jena Ratcliff Folklore Prize,
Centennial celebration of the International Folklore Congress in London, in June
l991 for “a major contribution to the study of folklore in England, Scotland, Ireland
and Wales.” (for the book The Last Stronghold: Scottish Gaelic Traditions of
Newfoundland)
Second runner-up to the Katherine Briggs Prize for Folklore, 1993 (for Scottish
Customs from the Cradle to the Grave).
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society award in January 1994 “for notable service...rendered
to the people of Scotland”.
First prize-winner of the College of Cape Breton Prof. Donald Fergusson Essay
Prize ‘for a topic relating to the study of Gaelic traditions’ (for the
article, “Gaelic Song in Eastern Canada: Twentieth Century Reflections”) 1995.
Master Music Maker Award ‘in celebration of a lifetime of
musicianship and teaching, North Carolina, USA, 1998.
The Clio Award for Quebec, Canadian Historical Association/Société
historique du Canada, 1999 prize, for the book Oatmeal and the Catechism:
Scottish Gaelic Settlers in Quebec
Katherine Briggs Prize for Folklore, runner-up 1999, for Oatmeal and the Catechism:
Celtic Women International, Toronto, 2003, “Exceptional Celtic Woman” Award, for “Lifelong service to Scottish and Celtic Culture”
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