Gaelic Language

A’ Dùsgadh na Gaoithe / Waking the Wind; Finding the Folklore of a Fragile Ecology

Author / Creator: Raghnaid Sandilands

Media type: Article

Date published: 2023

Gaelic language and culture have intimate connections to the environment.


Strengthening policy and provision for Gaelic: the key challenges ahead

Author / Creator: Wilson McLeod

Media type: Report

Date published: 2023

The SNP’s manifesto for the 2021 Scottish Parliament election included an unusually specific set of undertakings concerning Gaelic.


A Three Voiced Country

Author / Creator: Mike Small

Media type: Article

Date published: 2023

"It’s certainly a positive thing to see Gaelic and Scots campaigners organising together, as Iain Crichton Smith says “Let our three voiced country sing in a new world”, but the appointment of a Minister for Scottish Languages would need to coincide with a Scottish Languages Bill with real bite, and with the clout of having a substantially increased budget to deliver from. We are welcoming pitches and organising commissions on how to do more than ‘protect’ Scots and Gaelic in the coming weeks.


Does the Future of Gaelic Lie in Young People’s Hands?

Author / Creator: RACHEL WHITFORD

Media type: Blog

Date published: 2023

"young people’s more favourable attitudes towards Gaelic is not accompanied by more widespread knowledge."


Consultation on The Scottish Government Commitments to Gaelic and Scots and a Scottish Languages Bill

Author / Creator: Misneachd

Media type: consultation response

Date published: 2022

Misneachd is a grassroots campaign group fighting for the rights of Gaelic speakers and communities


Education - qualifications and assessment review: consultation - Gaelic

Author / Creator: Scottish Government

Media type: Consultation paper

Date published: 2022

Gaelic translation of the consultation on the options for change as part of Professor Hayward's independent review of the future of qualifications and assessment


Review of the Future of Qualifications and Assessment: Consultation on Options For Change

Author / Creator: Scottish Government

Media type: Consultation paper

Date published: 2022

There is a need to reform qualifications and assessments. 


Scottish Government Commitments to Gaelic and Scots and a Scottish Languages Bill: consultation

Author / Creator: Scottish Government

Media type: Consultation paper

Date published: 2022

Government proposals to support Gaelic and Scots languages


Somersaulting out of a Cave of Gold: thoughts on the current and future condition of the Gàidhealtachd

Author / Creator: Mike Small

Media type: Opinion

Date published: 2022

In the case of Scottish Gàidheil, personal loneliness and social brokenness have been compounded by a complicating psychological factor.  We have turned ourselves against spiritual, or Otherworld, forces that have power to support revitalisation of an indigenous lifeworld.