Obh, obh... cus uisge-beatha dhan t-sluagh? Taighean-staile à thall-thairis a-nis a' fàs nas motha. Agus Brexit, Ukraine, Trump uile a' dèanamh cuisean nas miosa.

Sorry to see the Isle of Harris Distillery in difficulties. Is the whisky bubble about to burst? Too many distillers and bottlers? Challenging conditions internationally too.

#whisky #Hebrides #BBCAlba #Alba #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #scotch #Trump #Brexit #IsleOfHarris

https://www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan/sgeulachdan/cgegjvqp28go

An cadal fada.

Taigh-bathar Gleann Ghoill.

#Russia #Scotland #Gaelic #AI #disinformation #propaganda

"For more than a decade, Kremlin agencies and their proxies have been pushing stories they believe will help undermine western democracies and promote the talking points of the Putin regime, especially on Ukraine. However, it is new to see this kind of content aimed at Scottish audiences in a minority language. So what is happening? Why do Russian propagandists have Gaelic speakers in their sights?"

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/russia-putin-gaelic-website-misinformation-xhbxvgnxw

“Bealltain (Beltane) is the first day of May. On May Day all the fires of the district were extinguished & ‘tein eigin’, need-fire, produced on the knoll.”

—“Am Beannachadh Bealltain” (“The Beltane Blessing”)
from Carmina Gadelica (Alexander Carmichael, 1900), online via the National Library of Scotland

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https://digital.nls.uk/early-gaelic-book-collections/archive/78420254

Tha Màiri Anna eòlach air deagh bhangair - mar sin, 's beag an t-iongnadh gun do chluich i Èirigh agamsa air Mire, fhad 's a bha i sa chathair thall ann an Àird Ghobhair.

Ceist agam dhuibh, ge-tà: robh i dèanamh a' MAKarena aig an àm? Èistibh ris air BBC Sounds!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002bjc1

Drochaid a' Chlachain, Eilean Saoil.

Bridging the Atlantic at Seil.

Finally arrived, my hardback copy of The Hobbit translated into Scottish Gaelic. Looks superb, and includes Tolkien’s original full page illustrations. #Books #Tolkien #Gaelic

Stobaichean.

Loch Laomainn.

Death by office block.

Seann taigh-seinnse Ryries aig Margadh an Fheòir na sheasamh ri biastan mòra uinneagach.

The auld howff of Ryries stands in the foot of two new glass monsters at Haymarket, Edinbugh.

#Edinburgh #Scotland #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #StreetPhotography #photography
@photography

[18:36] Integration the latest example of GAA's evolution

Between the split season, the new football rules and integration of the three organisations which oversee Gaelic games, the GAA is evolving at a pace that few would have expected decades and generations ago.

https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0305/1500423-gaa-integration/

#three #Gaelic #GAA #decades

Creag na h-Abaid is crogan-deathaich.

The lums of Wallace.

#Scotland #Stirling #WilliamWallace #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #ScottishIndependence
@photography

The bean-nighe (Scottish Gaelic for "washerwoman") or "Washer at the Ford" is a Scottish fairy and omen of death. She appears as an old woman at some desolate stream or pool, where she is washing the blood from the grave clothes of someone who will soon die.
Katherine Soutar

[19:51] Lee Costello: Why GAA ripping up the All-Ireland group stages feels knee-jerk and makes zero sense

Gaelic football is in a really funny position right now as it continues to go through changes at a rapid pace, while still taking backward steps in the process.

https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/lee-costello-why-gaa-ripping-up-the-all-ireland-group-stages-feels-knee-jerk-and-makes-zero-sense/a1900102458.html

#Gaelic

“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands. Most are known only to the fishermen. […] A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”

—Alastair Cole: How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas

https://theconversation.com/how-scottish-gaelic-is-helping-protect-scotlands-seas-155660

Scottish place names are full of ghosts. They describe fields that are no longer there, forests long felled. Gaelic carries the memory of people, land, and place. When languages disappear, so does a part of our history and the ways of thinking they represent.

I wrote about it here:

https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/scottish-gaelic-the-language-of-the-land/

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All #linguists must immediately watch #Kneecap

and so must everyone else.

(currently available on Netflix in the US at least)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27367464/

@linguistics #Gaelic #LanguageRevitalization #movies

Copach

I wrote this article in 2015. This week a storm in Great Britain named Eowyn stirred a lot of online searches that led to a brief boost in traffic to this article.

Meanwhile, over in Great Britain itself, some Irish and Scottish news sites (who shall go unnamed) appear to have used some of my text (maybe with slight editing) to explain to their readers the etymology of the name.

After years of having my articles raped by YouTubers I guess I'm getting used to it, but it would have been nice if these media sites had provided links.

#lotr #middleearth #fantasy #jrrtolkien #welsh #oldenglish #greatbritain #gaelic #news #weather #journalism

https://middle-earth.xenite.org/did-j-r-r-tolkien-invent-the-name-eowyn/

Happy Second New Year’s Eve to those who celebrate…

After the 1750 Calendar Act changed the date of New Year’s Day, some Gaels – to make sure they didn’t miss it – chose to celebrate both. Dr Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart discusses the once ubiquitous Highland tradition of Oidhche Challain:

https://www.whfp.com/2020/01/08/oidhche-challain-no-admission-without-a-rhyme/