Gaelic
The Challenges of Publishing in Gaelic
Lews Castle College -- celebrating 60 years of Gaelic Education Publishing is a hard enough business. It's even harder when the potential audience is quite...
Support for Gaelic?
A survey of public attitudes to Gaelic suggests that there is public support for the Scottish government's decision to spend £24m a year on...
Beltane 2013
Beltane is the Celtic May Day festival. It marks the midway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice Its traditions date back...
Useful Gaelic word: sùil
sùil – eye Listen to the pronunciation guide Short and simple, and a very common word. Sùil is eye and the plural is sùilean. In addition,...Useful Gaelic word: clò
clò – cloth/material/print Listen to the pronunciation guide Clò means cloth, in particular heavy kinds of cloth such as tweed. The standard Gaelic for Harris Tweed...Useful Gaelic word: cian
cian – age/distance Listen to the pronunciation guide Cian is one of these words hardly ever used in modern Gaelic on its own with its original...Useful Gaelic word: seann
seann – old Listen to the pronunciation guide Sometimes spelt sean, it is one of two words for "old" in Gaelic. The other one is aosta,...Useful Gaelic word: fèin
fèin – self Listen to the pronunciation guide The word is often spelt féin in older books and the resemblance to the Irish word féin –...Useful Gaelic word: cothrom
cothrom – opportunity/balance/weight Listen to the pronunciation guide The th-sound is silent and the word is pronounced corrom. The word is worth knowing about because it...