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Téipichean Inntinneach: Audios/Videos of Interest

Thanks to 1015thehawk.com for the following videos recently posted on their YouTube site:

Tribute Concert to Fr John Angus Rankin Glendale July 1996 Jerry Holland Solo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWd7Cdfebos Alex Francis MacKay Solo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E149m6EGljU

Festival of Cape Breton Fiddling August 1996 Official Opening Tribute to Fr John Angus Rankin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BF5cAhsFIg

Published on Jan 3, 2015 Festival of Cape Breton Fiddling is an annual event sponsored by

the Cape Breton Fiddler's Association...a tradition that began in 1973. This concert from

August 1996 at the Gaelic College St Anns, this is the opening and tribute to Father John

Angus Rankin one of the original members/founders of the Association. This features

members of the Cape Breton Fiddlers Association.

A’ Ghàidhlig ann a’ Gàradh Edein Gaelic in the Garden of Eden

Submitted by Ann Munro

It has been said that Gaelic was the language in the Garden of Eden. Here in Garden of Eden, Pictou County we are starting 2015 with a Gaelic Greeting for all who are travelling on the Sherbrooke Road. The board is located between Blair Church and the community hall. Many thanks to Boyd MacDonald.

Aithisg Iomairtean na Gàidhlig

Miar do Roinn nan Coimhearsnachdan,

a' Chultair agus an Dualchais

A publication of Gaelic Affairs A Division of Communities, Culture

and Heritage www.gov.ns.ca/oga Toll Free 1-842-3542

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nam Meadhannan

MEDIA MONITORING

REPORT 2015-01-09

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Seanchaidh/Neach-comhairle Catriona Chamshron air caochladh

Tradition Bearer/Mentor Catherine Cameron passes away http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Mary-Cameron&lc=3178&pid=173680819&mid=6258927

Mary Catherine Cameron January 3, 1923 - December 30, 2014

Sanas a’ Bhàis - Obituary

It is with heavy hearts that we the family announce the peaceful passing of our mother, Mary Catherine

(Beaton) Cameron on Tuesday, December 30, 2014, in Inverary Manor, Inverness at the age of 91. She

was born at home in Northeast Mabou to Angus Sandy Beaton and Margaret (MacDougall) Beaton.

Catherine worked tirelessly to make her house a welcoming home. She thoroughly enjoyed hosting

numerous visitors, sharing her Cape Breton hospitality through many cups of tea and Gaelic

conversation. Catherine was a dedicated member of St. Mary's Parish and CWL. Her strong Catholic

faith was an inspiration to her family and to all those who met her. As a young lady, Catherine worked in

Windsor, Ont., during the Second World War, Boston, Mass., and later worked at Mary's Hill Home in

Mabou. She is survived by her sister, Sr. Clare Beaton CND, Mabou; and her children, Lawrence

(Carmie), Fort McMurray, Alta.; Gerard (Marcella), Calgary, Alta.; Eugene (Evelyn), Mabou; Brian (Mary

Alice), Mississauga, Ont.; Claire (Cyril), Fall River; Bernadette (Dan), Kingsville, Ont.; Bernard (Nancy),

Mabou; Eleanor (Mark), Windsor, Ont.; Angela (David), Fort McMurray; her 21 grandchildren; six great-

grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Sandy; her infant

son, David; her parents; her brothers, Alexander and John; and her grandson in infancy.

Visitation will be held in St. Mary's Church Vestry on Friday, January 2 nd from 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral

mass will be Saturday, January 3 rd at 11a.m. with FR. Angus Morris officiating. Burial in the parish

cemetery at a later date.

Special thanks to her private caregivers, Anne Smith, Margaret MacIntyre, and Mary McNamara, and

the Palliative care team and staff at the Inverary Manor. Donations can be made to the Central

Inverness County Palliative Care Society or a charity of your choice.

On line condolences may be made to: www.invernessfuneralhome.com

Fois shìorruidh gu robh aig a h-anam.

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Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage Culture & Heritage Development Division Programs Workshop Date: Jan 13, 2015 Date: Jan 14, 2015 Time: 9:30am – 1:30pm Time: 9:30am – 1:30pm Location: Digby Municipal Chambers Location: Yarmouth County Museum Workshop description: Have you ever wanted to know more about funding for arts, culture, communities and heritage in Nova Scotia? Here’s an opportunity to explore the variety of provincial funding programs, grants and awards for individuals and organizations … AND speak one-on-one with people who manage these programs. Workshop facilitators: Marcel McKeough, Executive Director, Culture & Heritage Development Division Craig Beaton, Programs Director, Culture & Heritage Development Division Natasha Jackson, Communities Nova Scotia Director, Culture & Heritage Development Division Chris Shore , Director, Arts Nova Scotia, Culture & Heritage Development Division Timeline: 9:30 am – Opening remarks 10:00 am – Communities, Culture & Heritage programs overview with Marcel McKeough 10:30 am – coffee 10:45 am – Arts Nova Scotia programs with Chris Shore 11:10 am – Communities Nova Scotia programs with Natasha Jackson 11:35 am – Culture & Heritage programs with Craig Beaton 12:00 pm Q and A 12:30 pm – Workshop wrap-up - Lunch served and participants and have one on one discussions


Sgàil-riochd Pìobair- Piper’s Silhouette


From Inverness Oran, Dec. 24, 2014

Faclan Feumail Gàidhlig aig Poilìn: PAULINE’S HANDY GAELIC WORDS

Airgead-buidheachais

Literal Meaning: Gratuity, i.e. tip

Na bhios Muinntir an t-Saoghail a’ Bruidhinn ann a’ 2115 What the World Will Speak in 2115 http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-the-world-will-speak-in-2115-1420234648#livefyre-comment

From Wall Street Journal: John H. McWhorter Jan. 2, 2015

A century from now, expect fewer but simpler languages on every continent.

In 1880 a Bavarian priest created a language that he hoped the whole world could use. He mixed words from

French, German and English and gave his creation the name Volapük, which didn’t do it any favors. Worse,

Volapük was hard to use, sprinkled with odd sounds and case endings like Latin.

It made a splash for a few years but was soon pushed aside by another invented language, Esperanto, which

had a lyrical name and was much easier to master. A game learner could pick up its rules of usage in an

afternoon.

But it didn’t matter. By the time Esperanto got out of the gate, another language was already emerging as an

international medium: English. Two thousand years ago, English was the unwritten tongue of Iron Age tribes in

Denmark. A thousand years after that, it was living in the shadow of French-speaking overlords on a dampish

little island. No one then living could have dreamed that English would be spoken today, to some degree, by

almost two billion people, on its way to being spoken by every third person on the planet.

Science fiction often presents us with whole planets that speak a single language, but that fantasy seems

more menacing here in real life on this planet we call home—that is, in a world where some worry that English

might eradicate every other language. That humans can express themselves in several thousand languages is

a delight in countless ways; few would welcome the loss of this variety.

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You Heard ’Em Here First: Words of 2015 But the existence of so many languages can also create problems: It isn’t an accident that the Bible’s tale of

the Tower of Babel presents multilingualism as a divine curse meant to hinder our understanding. One might

even ask: If all humans had always spoken a single language, would anyone wish we were instead separated

now by thousands of different ones?

Thankfully, fears that English will become the world’s only language are premature. Few are so pessimistic as

to suppose that there will not continue to be a multiplicity of nations and cultures on our planet and, along with

them, various languages besides English. It is difficult, after all, to interrupt something as intimate and

spontaneous as what language people speak to their children. Who truly imagines a Japan with no Japanese

or a Greece with no Greek? The spread of English just means that earthlings will tend to use a local language

in their own orbit and English for communication beyond.

But the days when English shared the planet with thousands of other languages are numbered. A traveler to

the future, a century from now, is likely to notice two things about the language landscape of Earth. One, there

will be vastly fewer languages. Two, languages will often be less complicated than they are today—especially

in how they are spoken as opposed to how they are written.

Some may protest that it is not English but Mandarin Chinese that will eventually become the world’s

language, because of the size of the Chinese population and the increasing economic might of their nation.

But that’s unlikely. For one, English happens to have gotten there first. It is now so deeply entrenched in print,

education and media that switching to anything else would entail an enormous effort. We retain the QWERTY

keyboard and AC current for similar reasons.

Also, the tones of Chinese are extremely difficult to learn beyond childhood, and truly mastering the writing

system virtually requires having been born to it. In the past, of course, notoriously challenging languages such

as Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Arabic, Russian and even Chinese have been embraced by vast numbers of people.

But now that English has settled in, its approachability as compared with Chinese will discourage its

replacement. Many a world power has ruled without spreading its language, and just as the Mongols and

Manchus once ruled China while leaving Chinese intact, if the Chinese rule the world, they will likely do so in

English.

A Chinese teacher gives an English lesson to students in the Gansu province of northwest China in July 2013. Some

have predicted that Mandarin Chinese will eventually become the world’s language, but its elaborate tones are too

difficult to learn beyond childhood. IMAGINECHINA/CORBIS

Yet more to the point, by 2115, it’s possible that only about 600 languages will be left on the planet as opposed

to today’s 6,000. Japanese will be fine, but languages spoken by smaller groups will have a hard time of it. Too

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often, colonialization has led to the disappearance of languages: Native speakers have been exterminated or

punished for using their languages. This has rendered extinct or moribund, for example, most of the languages

of Native Americans in North America and Aboriginal peoples of Australia. Urbanization has only furthered the

destruction, by bringing people away from their homelands to cities where a single lingua franca reigns.

Even literacy, despite its benefits, can threaten linguistic diversity. To the modern mind, languages used in

writing, with its permanence and formality, seem legitimate and “real,” while those that are only spoken—that

is, all but a couple hundred of them today—can seem evanescent and parochial. Few illusions are harder to

shed than the idea that only writing makes something “a language.” Consider that Yiddish is often described as

a “dying” language at a time when hundreds of thousands of people are living and raising children in it—just

not writing it much—every day in the U.S. and Israel.

It is easy for speakers to associate larger languages with opportunity and smaller ones with backwardness,

and therefore to stop speaking smaller ones to their children. But unless the language is written, once a single

generation no longer passes it on to children whose minds are maximally plastic, it is all but lost. We all know

how much harder it is to learn a language well as adults.

In a community where only older people now speak a language fluently, the task is vastly more difficult than

just passing on some expressions, words and word endings. The Navajo language made news recently when

a politician named Chris Deschene was barred from leading the Navajo nation because his Navajo isn’t fluent.

One wishes Mr. Deschene well in improving his Navajo, but he has a mountain to climb. In Navajo there is no

such thing as a regular verb: You have to learn by heart each variation of every verb. Plus it has tones.

That’s what indigenous languages tend to be like in one way or another. Languages “grow” in complexity the

way that people pick up habits and cars pick up rust. One minute the way you mark a verb in the future tense

is to use will: I will buy it. The next minute, an idiom kicks in where people say I am going to buy it, because if

you are going with the purpose of doing something, it follows that you will. Pretty soon that gels into a new way

of putting a verb in the future tense with what a Martian would hear as a new “word,” gonna.

In any language that kind of thing is happening all the time in countless ways, far past what is necessary even

for nuanced communication. A distinction between he and she is a frill that most languages do without, and

English would be fine without gonna alongside will, irregular verbs and much else.

These features, like he versus she, certainly don’t hurt anything. A language isn’t something that can be

trimmed like a bush, and children have no trouble picking up even the weirdest of linguistic frills. A “click”

language of southern Africa typically has not just two or three but as many as dozens of different clicks to

master (native speakers have a bump on their larynx from producing them 24/7). For English speakers, it

seems hard enough that Mandarin Chinese requires you to distinguish four tones to get meaning across, but in

the Hmong languages of Southeast Asia, any syllable means different things according to as many as eight

tones.


Faigh Eòlas air Dualchas Gàidhlig Antaiginis

Experience Gaelic Antigonish by Lewis MacKinnon, Executive Director, Gaelic Affairs, Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage Jan. 1, 2015

http://www.thehighlandheart.ca/experience-gaelic-antigonish-67/

Tuineachadh Na bu Tràithe nan Gàidheal

ann a’ Siorramachd Antaiginis

Earrann air eadartheangachadh o’n a’ Bheurla dhan a’

Ghàidhlig ás an aithisg: Gaelic in Nova Scotia: An

Economic, Cultural and Social Impact Study

https://gaelic.novascotia.ca/sites/default/files/files/Gael

ic-Report.pdf

Bhuannaich Siorramachd Antaiginis tuineachadh

Gàidhealach na bu thràithe cuideachd. Bha tuineachadh

gu ìre bheag air tòiseachadh leis na h-aona réisimeidean

a chaidh a leigeil fo sgaoil is a thug an àirde bronntunais-

fhearainn ann a’ Siorramachd Phictou tràth ’sna 1780

an. Thòisich àireamhan móra de Ghàidheil air ruigsinn

gu neo-uaireasbhaidheach, bu thrice taobh Phictou,

bho’n bhliadhna 1790 air adhart. Ged a bha

riochdachadh bu thràithe bho sgìrean mar Bharraidh is

Uidhist a’ Chinn a Deas, thigeadh Siorramachd

Antaiginis, coltach ri Siorramachd Phictou gu bhith ’na h-

àite de thuineachaidhean á tìr-mór na h-Albann. B’eu-

choltaiche tuinichean na Siorramachd Phictou. Thàinig

na tuinichean seo á Srath-ghlais, Loch Abar, Mùideart,

agus Mórar, ann a’ Siorrachd Inbhir Nis, gu buadhach,

ceàrnaidhean Caitligeach na Gàidhealtachd. Air a’ char

as mionaidiche, tha seo ’g innseadh carson a ghluais iad

cho luath gu an ear do sgìre-thuineachaidh air leth ann

an àite a’ fearann math a thaghadh a bha fhathast ann

ann a’ Siorramachd Phictou anamoch ’san 18 amh is 19

amh linn. ’S ann bu dhualaiche a bha e airson

tuineachadh Gàidhealach air feadh na h-Albann Nuaidh,

a’ fiachainn ri tuineachadh a dhèanadh ann an sgìrean

iomallach le feadhainn ás an aon chreidimh agus ás an

ao’ sgìre ann an Albainn (bu thrice leis na h-aona

cheanglaichean de fhineachan) Gus tuilleadh

fhiosrachaidh ’fhaighinn air na Gàidheil is cànan agus

cultar nan Gàidheal an Albainn Nuaidh carson nach chuir

sibh post-dealain gu [email protected]

Early Settlement of Gaels in Antigonish

County

An Excerpt translated from English to Gaelic from the

report: Gaelic in Nova Scotia: An Economic, Cultural

and Social Impact Study

https://gaelic.novascotia.ca/sites/default/files/files/Ga

elic-Report.pdf

Antigonish County also enjoyed early Gaelic

settlement. Small-scale settlement had begun with

the same disbanding regiments that took up land

grants in Pictou County in the early 1780s. Large

numbers of Highland settlers began arriving

independently, often via Pictou, from 1790 onward.

Although there was early representation from areas

such as Barra and South Uist, Antigonish, like Pictou

County, would become an area of largely mainland

Scottish settlement. Unlike the Pictou settlers, these

immigrants came mainly from Strathglas, Lochaber,

Moidart, and Morar, in Invernesshire, predominantly

Catholic regions of the Highlands. This, in part,

explains why they so quickly moved east to a

separate settlement district rather than choosing

the good land that was still readily available in

Pictou County in the late 18th and early 19th

century.

Attempting to settle in discrete districts with others

of the same religion and from the same district of

Scotland (often with the same clan affiliations) was

also typical of Highland settlement throughout Nova

Scotia.

To obtain further information on Gaels and Gaelic

language and culture in Nova Scotia, please e-mail

[email protected]

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Laoidhean Ùra Gàidhlig: An toradh a’

dol gu Bursaraidh Nèill Mhic’Illeathain

Tha Mòrag Burke ás a’ Phon Mhór, Ceap

Breatainn, air a bheil deagh eòlas aig Gàidheil na

h-Albann Nuaidhe mar neach-teagaisg na Gàidhlig

agus mar sheinneadair nan òran Gàidhlig, air sia

laoidhean ùra anns a’ Ghàidhlig ’fhoillseachadh.

’S e tiotal an laoidheadair Dia nan Gràsan:

Laoidhean Ùra Gàidhlig. Théid an toradh gu léir

bho reic an laoidheadair gu Bursaraidh Nèill

Mhic’Illeathain, a bheir cuideachadh do

sgoilearan ag obair air Ceum Foghlaim aig Oilthigh

NFX agus a tha an dùil a’ Ghàidhlig a theagasg ann

an Albainn Nuaidh.

Gheobhar lethbhreac aig a’ bhùth ‘5₵ to S1’ ann

an Antaiginis, prìs $7.98.

New Gaelic Hymns: Proceeds to Benefit Neil

MacLean Bursary

Mòrag Burke of Big Pond, Cape Breton, well-

known to Nova Scotia Gaels as Gaelic tutor and

performer of Gaelic songs, has just published six

new hymns in Scottish Gaelic. The title of the hymnbook is Dia nan Gràsan: Laoidhean Ùra Gàidhlig (God

of the Graces: New Gaelic Hymns). All moneys from the sale of the hymnbook will go to the Neil

MacLean Bursary for Prospective Gaelic Teachers, which will benefit students working on an Education

degree at St. FXU and intending to teach Gaelic in Nova Scotia.

Copies may be purchased locally from the 5₵ to $1 Store, 245 Main Street, Antigonish, N.S. B2G 2L8; Tel.

902-863-2571. The price is $7.98.


A Chàirdean, An Comunn Gàidhealach Ameireaganach, The American Scottish Gaelic Society (ACGA), in association with Hard To Port Internet Radio in Baltimore, is thrilled to announce our latest project, by our members for our members.

Rèidio Guth nan Gàidheal / Voice of the Gael Radio (GnG), is a block of Scottish Gaelic and English Internet Radio programming that will run once every two weeks, focusing on the Scottish Gaelic language in North America and the culture associated with it.

Guth nan Gàidheal was conceived as a volunteer-led project, with ACGA members and other individuals from outside the organization who are interested in Gaelic and making programs for everyone to enjoy - those who are fluent in Gaelic, learners of the language, and those who have a general interest in the music and culture. We plan to encourage and assist ACGA members and others from outside the organization who want to produce their own Gaelic-themed programs and features for broadcast on Guth nan Gàidheal.

Please visit our website at http://gng.acgamerica.org/ for the latest news about our launch date, our programming, and for broadcast schedules. You can also like our Facebook page at http://facebook.com/GuthNanGaidheal, and follow our Twitter feed at @GuthNanGaidheal.

Clàrachas Dhualchainntean Gàidhlig na h-Albann - Scottish Gaelic Dialect Survey

Cartographic illustration of some of the varying pronunciations of words in Scots Gaelic

Author: Douglas M Fraser 2014 http://doug5181.wix.com/sgdsmaps

The following maps have been constructed using data recorded in the “Survey of the Gaelic Dialects of Scotland” (SGDS). This work, in four volumes of data and a fifth of detailed explanations of methods employed in their assembly, was published by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in 1997 (ISBN 1 85500 165 9), with William Gillies as Editor-in-chief. The material was collected in the Highlands of Scotland, mainly in the period 1950-1963 at a time when there were still at least a few native Gaelic speakers to be found in most parts of the area. A total of 207 carefully selected local Gaelic speakers were asked for their pronunciations of 895 Gaelic words or expressions and the results were recorded using an augmented version of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The map shows that forms of the language were recorded from native Gaelic speakers from St Kilda in the west to Braemar in the east and from Melness in the north to the southern tip of Arran. It is indeed fortunate that this work was done, as Gaelic, in its local form, is now extinct in many of these areas. The Survey is a treasure-trove for research into Scottish Gaelic dialects and the following maps represent a tiny fraction of what is possible.

The maps have been constructed by putting the Ordnance Survey grid co-ordinates of the interviewees into a spread sheet and using this to plot a scatter graph of the 207 locations. These scatter graphs, with precisely defined northings and eastings, have been overlaid onto blank maps of Scotland, having the same northings and eastings, with the two layers then being merged to form the various maps. Further details of this are in the Appendix.

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TACHARTASAN – EVENTS For further info on Gaelic Events in NS

see http://gaelic.novascotia.ca/events

Jan. 10 Halifax

6 – 9 pm

Cape Breton All Ages Dance and Ceilidh

St Agnes Church Hall ,6093 Mumford Road, Halifax

Featuring music by BRAD REID and LEANNE AUCOIN, also guest youth fiddler:

MEGAN SAMS

Admission: $7.00 per person; $20 per family of 3 or more and children under 5 are

free. Canteen and 50/50 draw

Instructional square sets, Alcohol Free and Smoke Free, Wheelchair accessible

Adult accompaniment required for children under 16 years of age

Invite your family, friends and neighbors for a lively family event.

For info call 902-434-9237 Anthony Mac Isaac [email protected]

Jan. 13

to

Feb. 17

Halifax

7:30 – 9:00

pm

Cape Breton Step Dance Session - 6 week session Citadel Community Centre (Citadel High School)

1955 Trollope Street, Halifax

7:30 - 8:00 - Beginner Class - for anyone who has never step danced or who may

want to brush up on the basic steps

8:00 - 9:00 - All Levels Class (including beginners) - will work on various levels of

steps and dance square sets

Cost:: $80 per person

$100 - Beginners (taking 90 minute class)

Instructor: Leanne Aucoin

For further info: Sgoil Ghàidhlig [email protected]

Jan. 18 Mabou 2 pm

Tales of Old: Moonshiners and Bootleggers

on Sunday, 18th January 2pm

at An Drochaid Museum in Mabou.

Tea will be served.

March 3

to

March 31

Little Narrows

See ad for

times

5 Week Group Music Lessons (All Ages – 5 and up) on Tuesday Evenings (March 3

rd – 31

st)

The Little Narrows Community Centre

134 Highway 223, Little Narrows, Vict. Co., Nova Scotia B2C 1A8

5-6: Fiddle (Instructor Anita MacDonald)

6-7: Dance (Instructor Anita MacDonald)

7-8: Guitar (Instructor Darlene Ellis)

8-9: *Piping (Instructor Ben Miller)

$10 per lesson/per discipline

$50 for all 5 weeks/per one discipline

http://gaelic.novascotia.ca/eventsmailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


We have a DEAL just for you!

$80 for all 5 weeks/per two disciplines (save $20)

$130 for all 5 weeks/per three disciplines (save $20)

* Piping classes will run from March 3rd

– March 24th

(4 weeks) at $10/per lesson or

$40 for all 4 weeks. If you are looking to take this with other disciplines, the deals

still apply.

Register now! Send us an email at [email protected] - include

your name along with the number and name of discipline(s) you would like to take.

Are you interested but don’t have an instrument? Don’t fret! Please indicate this to

us and we will assist you in getting an instrument.

May 8-13

Mabou

2015 3rd Annual Nova Scotia Gaels Jam

Save the Dates! May 8 - 13th 2015 St. Joseph's Renewal Centre Mabou, NS

The NS Gaels Jam will bring together approxmately 30 people of all ages

from across the province for five days of interactive learning. Stay tuned for

more information!

To watch and read testimonials from past participants click here and scroll

down. We ask that those interested in attending keep this time frame open

and for those planning other Gaelic events during this time we thought it

would be helpful to know our schedule in your planning

Contact: Amber Buchanan [email protected]

Sgoil Ghàidhlig an Àrd-bhaile Winter Courses Beginner (10 weeks)

Tuesdays – Jan.13, 20, 27, Feb. 3, 10, 17, 24, Mar. 3, 10, 17

Tutor: Laura Stirling, Rockingham

6:30 - 9:00 pm

Early Bird Special - $110 - After January 2 - $125

Advanced Beginner (10 weeks)

Wednesdays – Jan. 14, 21, 28, Feb. 4,11, 18, 25, Mar. 4, 11, 18

Tutor: Laura Stirling, Rockingham

6:30 - 9:00 pm

Early Bird Special - $110 - After January 2- $125

Intermediate (10 weeks)

Wednesdays – Jan. 14, 21, 28, Feb. 4,11, 18, 25, Mar. 4, 11, 25

Tutor: Beth Anne MacEachen, Citadel High School

6:00 - 8:30 pm

Early Bird Special - $110 - After January 2- $125

mailto:[email protected]://novascotiagaelsjam.com/mailto:[email protected]


Rùn: ’S e rùn OIG a bhith ag obair le muinntir na h-Albann Nuaidh ann a’ leasachadh is brosnachadh na Gàidhlig, cànain ’s cultar, ’s a’ Mhòir-roinn.

Àicheadh: Tha Iomairtean na Gàidhlig ag ullachadh na h-aithisg seo an aon ghnothach fiosrachadh a sgaoileadh. Chan eil am fiosrachadh ’s na

ceanglaichean ri’m faighinn ’s an aithisg seo ach ’nan goireasan; ’s chan eil Riaghaltas na h-Albann Nuaidh a’ cur aonta ris na tha innte, ris na

poileasaidhean, no ris na bathair, no ri ceanglaichean do làraichean-lìn air an taobh a-muigh. Chan eil ceannas aig Oifis Iomairtean na Gàidhlig air an

fhiosrachadh seo no air na ceanglaichean do làraichean-lìn air an taobh a-muigh; agus chan eil an Oifis an urra ris a’ chinnteachd, ris an dligheachd,

no ris a tha am broinn an fhiosrachaidh ’s an aithisg seo, no ri na bhitheas de cheanglaichean a thig ásda. Ma chuireas duine gu feum am fiosrachadh

’s na ceanglaichean ’s an aithisg seo, nì e sin air a cheann fhéin. Cuiribh fios chun nan làraichean-lìn an taobh a-muigh ma bhios ceistean agaibh air

na th’annta.

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BUIN GÀIDHLIG na h-ALBANN NUAIDHE – ORIGINS OF NOVA SCOTIA GAELIC 'S ann an Gàidhlig na h-Albann a tha buin Gàidhlig na h-Albann Nuaidhe agus mar Ghàidhlig na h-Éireann agus Ghàidhlig Mhanainn, tha i 'na ball de mheur teaghlach nan cànainean Ceilteach ris an canar 'Goidelic' (Gàidhlig). Tha Gàidhlig na h-Albann Nuaidhe air a bhith 'ga bruidhinn anns a' Roinn againn bho chionn co dhiùbh 1773. Lìonmhor mar a tha i ann an òrain, ceòl dualchasach na fìdhle 's na pìoba, dannsa-ceumaidh, seanchas, cleachdaidhean is creideamh, tha a' Ghàidhlig a' cur ri iomadachd chultarach, shòisealta, oideachail, is eaconomach co-chomann na h-Albann Nuaidhe. Nova Scotia Gaelic has its origins in Scottish Gaelic and, like Irish Gaelic and Manx, is a branch of the family of Celtic languages. It has been spoken in our province since at least 1773 and is rich in cultural expression through song, traditional fiddle and pipe music, step dancing, storytelling as well as customs and beliefs. NS Gaelic continues to make

cultural, social, educational and economic contributions to Nova Scotia society.

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