Suirbhidh air mòr-ionad Gàidhlig / Survey about Gaelic hub
Tha Ionad Gàidhlig Dhùn Èideann a’ dèanamh suirbhidh coimhearsnachd an-dràsta air ‘mòr-ionad’ no ‘hub’ Gàidhlig ann an Dùn Èideann – àite sòisealta is cultarail far am b’ urrainn do luchd na Gàidhlig tighinn còmhla airson diofar sheòrsaichean ghnìomhachdan is tachartasan Gàidhlig. Dè na buannachdan a dh’fhaodadh a bhith an lùib mòr-ionad Gàidhlig agus dè a tha daoine ag iarraidh faicinn ann am mòr-ionad?
Ionad Gàidhlig Dhùn Èideann is conducting a community survey about establishing a Gaelic ‘hub’ for Edinburgh – a social and cultural space where Gaelic speakers and learners could come together for different kinds of Gaelic activities and events. What are the possible benefits of a Gaelic hub and what might people like to see in a hub?
How about a hub to learn and speak Scots the real old language of Edinburgh?
How about you make sincere efforts to inform yourself of the place of Gaelic in Scottish history. Ask yourself if it is right, proper and helpful to continue and participate in the centuries-long persecution of Gaelic which is an unarguable cultural treasure of this country and wider Europe. Spend half an hour or so researching the origins of place names in and around Edinburgh. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Kindest regards and best wishes to you in your studies. George Muir.
How about learning pictish – with more place names over a wider area than Gaelic, and the true ancient language of Scotland. Those nasty horrible mean gaels took away the true language of the scottish
Do you speak Pictish?
“……pictish – with more place names over a wider area than Gaelic, and the true ancient language of Scotland…..”
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Ahh!
So that explains why the “true ancient“ name of this country is Pictland and not Scotland as deluded persons believe.
Fine, why don’t you start a campaign for one then? This present initiative, as I understand, is from Edinburgh’s Gaelic speaking community. What surprises me, as someone who has only relatively recently come to live in Edinburgh, is that such a Gaelic hub does not yet exist in Scotland’s capital. The antagonistic reactions to this initiative perhaps explain why that is so. They also reinforce the case for such a hub.
Myself and most other Gaelic speakers I know would be supportive of this. Are you involved in any efforts to bring this to fruition or are you just criticising what others are doing will contributing nothing yourself?