The article discusses the significance of the Gaelic language in Scottish culture and the need to protect it. The author shares personal experiences and highlights the cultural place of Gaelic in Scotland's history and folklore.
I QUICKLY became aware of this “other language” after I first met my wife Christina – a Gaelic-speaking lass from Tolastadh bho Thuath on Lewis – at Cardonald College in my hometown of Glasgow.
Every year for many years, we would return to Lewis in the summer, and I would be surrounded by this wonderful language that I didn’t understand, but still listening in to catch the moment I would perhaps be mentioned by “Granny”. Our young daughter Helen loved the freedom of the crofting land, the wee local beach, and her Gaelic cousins. All quite magical.The language remained a mystery to me – I was dreadful at French in school too – but I knew inside that this was something worth protecting.
Some go further and accuse the Scottish Government of using Gaelic as a political tool, a kind of separatist weapon to make us feel “different” from the rest of the UK. Well, we are different – so what? We are Scots, the Welsh are Welsh, the English are English and we share an island – is it not difference that makes life interesting?
When we more recently launched our Fermio Cymru section, we heard no screams of derision, only joy from those in all those areas who read the magazine. I would urge the mainstream media to open their eyes to the Gaelic language – it is nothing to be afraid of and certainly it should be below their standards to attack it as somehow being subversive!
Gaelic Language Scottish Culture Heritage Protection History Folklore
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