Scottish Gaelic News
Below we have listed recent Scottish Gaelic news articles. The articles are in English about Scottish Gaelic issues.
BBC Alba looking to train Gaelic-speaking talent for new soap
Source: The Stage
BBC Alba, the new Gaelic television channel launching next month, is on the hunt for a long-running soap as part of its commitment to broadcasting original drama.
A new Scottish Gaelic soap would be the first since Machair, which ran for six years and came to an end in 1998.
Alan Esslemont, BBC Alba's head of content, said production of original drama formed part of the channel's strategy and revealed discussions had taken place with a number of independent production companies in Scotland about potential ideas for a long-running series.
However, Esslemont admitted writing in Gaelic for television needed more work. He revealed an initiative offering training to new Gaelic-speaking talent in acting and writing, with a view to employing them on a soap, was being considered.
BBC Alba looking to train Gaelic-speaking talent for new soap
Gaelic television agrees new TV deal for Challenge Cup
Source: The Scotsman
GAELIC television's coverage of Scottish football has been strengthened with the agreement of a sponsorship deal with the Scottish Football League which will see a semi-final and the final of the League Challenge Cup screened live on the new BBC Gaelic channel.
MG Alba, a body previously known as the Gaelic Media Service which makes Gaelic television programmes, is the new title sponsor of the Challenge Cup which will now be renamed the Alba Challenge Cup.
Gaelic television agrees new TV deal for Challenge Cup
Petition to Scottish Rugby
After the successful attempt to get the Gaelic word for Scotland 'Alba' onto the Scottish National Football shirts, a new petition has been launched to do the same for Rugby.
The online petition can be signed with or without comments.
The petition states:
"We the undersigned, call upon the Scottish Rugby Union to proudly display 'Alba' (the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland), alongside Scotland, on the front of the national rugby team shirt."
This petition is sure to gain media attention so do your bit by taking a minute to sign it!
Gaelic school a victim of success
Source: The Evening Times Online
PUPIL numbers at Glasgow Gaelic School are at an all-time high.
But the popularity of the school has landed education bosses with a problem - they cannot find enough fluent Gaelic-speaking teachers.
Gaelic school a victim of success
Welsh and Gaelic are official EU tongues
Source: The Times Online
Welsh and Scottish Gaelic will soon be echoing around the European Union's corridors of power under an agreement that Britain is about to sign with its EU partners. The deal, which could be rubber-stamped as early as Tuesday, will mean that individuals will be able to write to the EU's Council of Ministers in either language - and that the Council, where governments take political and legislative decisions, will have to reply in the same tongue.
Welsh and Gaelic are official EU tongues
Gaelic dictionary 'a great asset'
Source: The BBC
A new dictionary of Gaelic will be as important as "great art collections" held by national galleries, a university figure has said.
Strathclyde's Boyd Robertson, convener of the Faclair na Gaidhlig project steering group, commented ahead of the launch of a business plan for it.
The aim is to produce a dictionary on a par with the Scottish National and Oxford English dictionaries.
Gaelic dictionary 'a great asset'
Parliament's logo adopts Gaelic
Source: The Herald
The Scottish Parliament was officially rebranded yesterday, with the phrase Parlamaid na h-Alba attached to all its proceedings.
The Gaelic phrase became an integral part of the parliament's logo for the first time, but the Holyrood authorities were quick to point out that they had spent no extra money on the change.
Parliament's logo adopts Gaelic
Gaelic gets creative with new £8m centre
Source: The Herald
An £8m centre for Gaelic creative industries aimed at supplying talent and training to the new Gaelic digital channel is due to be opened by First Minister Alex Salmond on Skye today.
Fas - Gaelic for growth - is the latest addition to Skye's Gaelic College, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, and will provide a state-of-the-art creative/ media environment, including a full broadcast-standard digital television recording studio, sound-recording studio,theatre and post- production facilities.
Gaelic gets creative with new £8m centre
The Gaelic Job
Source: The Sunday Herald
ALAN ESSLEMONT has a big job to do. If the future of Scotland's Gaelic digital television station is to be assured, its head of content must make your ordinary Scot tune in to the new station on a regular basis. And if that wasn't hard enough, he has only 15 months to make this happen.
Welcome to The Gaelic Job, which Esslemont says he is more than happy to be tackling. He promises the new station - which was given the go-ahead last week - will "move the image of Gaelic in Scottish society onwards, creating a new atmosphere and identity", while also "giving people across Scotland what they want: a decent programme to watch on TV at eight o'clock or nine o'clock."
Gaelic TV survey is 'encouraging'
Source: The BBC
The organisation behind plans to set up a Gaelic digital television channel has said it is encouraged by the latest study into its potential audience.
In a survey of 1,001 people across Scotland, conducted for the Gaelic Media Service (GMS), 5% said they spoke the language well.
A further 7% said they knew a few words, while almost half said they would tune into a Gaelic channel.
Gaelic TV survey is 'encouraging'
New song competition in Celtic and Scots Languages
A new competition has been created that aims to showcase songs from Celtic and Scots language communities. Nòs Ùr (Gaelic for new style) hopes to use the event to promote musical and cultural diversity to an international audience.
Competition organisers expect they will receive entries representing lanugages such as Scottish Gaelic, Scots, Ulster Scots, Manx, Welsh, Irish, Cornish and Breton.
The format will be similar to the Eurovision Song Contest however instead of representing a country, the singers and bands will instead represent one the minority languages.
Visit the official Nòs Ùr web site
Extra cash in bid to boost Gaelic
First Minister Alex Salmond will pledge an extra £7.5m to safeguard the future of the Gaelic language this week.
Mr Salmond will unveil the funding increase when he delivers the annual Sabhal Mor Ostaig lecture on Wednesday.
The money will be spent on education, the national plan for the Gaelic language and also broadcasting.
Extra cash in bid to boost Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic Translation Service
Save Gaelic is pleased to announce that we have a new professional Gaelic translation partner.
The Gaelic translation services provided by Donald are available to clients worldwide with simultaneous translation services also available in Scotland.
Brown hails Mod as 'international event'
Source: The Scotsman
ORGANISERS of the Royal National Mod received an unexpected boost when they received a letter of support from Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister.
It is thought to be the first time the annual celebration of Gaelic music and culture, taking place this week in Lochaber, has been given the official backing of Downing Street.
In a faxed letter to An Comunn Gaidhealach, Mr Brown said: "I recognise the tremendous contribution made by this event, the premier annual celebration of Gaelic language and culture, which is not only a national but an international gathering of great significance."
Brown hails Mod as 'international event'
Culture Minister makes commitment to Gaelic as Mod opens
Source: The Herald
The Royal National Mod opened last night with Scotland's Culture Minister underlining the government's commitment to the Gaelic language.
Linda Fabiani said the Scottish Government was committed to developing and promoting "Gaelic language, education and culture in Scotland and abroad".
Speaking at the Mod's opening in Fort William, she said: "Gaelic is part of our nation's landscape and we should be glad to celebrate it.
Culture Minister makes commitment to Gaelic as Mod opens
And the Oscar will not go to...
Source: Scotland on Sunday
EVER wondered what an overwrought Oscar winner's speech would sound like in Gaelic? Well, you'll have to wonder a lot longer.
Gaelic feature film The Inaccessible Pinnacle has been robbed of potential Academy Award glory after London-based film experts took the controversial decision that it was not even worth nominating for a foreign language Oscar.
The move has outraged many in the Scottish movie industry, who were convinced Seachd - its Gaelic title - was a shoo-in as the UK's official candidate for the prestigious title.
Ofcom to push through BBC Gaelic
Source: C21 Media
UK regulator Ofcom has today started the process of evaluating the market impact of the BBC's planned Gaelic-language digital television channel.
The BBC is proposing to launch the channel, airing for up to seven hours per day, seven days a week and including 1.5 hours of original programming. It will initially be available on satellite, broadband and cable, and will later become available on digital terrestrial television in Scotland as digital switchover takes place.
Under the BBC Charter all new BBC services are subject to a public value test (PVT) by the BBC Trust, with a market impact assessment (MIA) test carried out by Ofcom.
Ofcom to push through BBC Gaelic
Kids line up to join city's Gaelic education boom
Source: The Online Evening Times
RECORD numbers of parents are enrolling their children at Glasgow's new Scottish Gaelic superschool.
The number of secondary pupils joining the £4million campus in the West End - combined with those at the Gaelic unit at Hillpark Secondary - has increased by 32% in the last year.
The school, near Charing Cross, which opened last year caters for pupils from pre-5 to secondary, and has attracted dozens of placing requests from other local authorities.
Kids line up to join city's Gaelic education boom
Gaelic: Dying or on the brink of renaissance?
Source: The Scotsman
THE majority of Scots may not speak the language but, in future, Scottish Gaelic will increasingly be on the lips of people in all walks of life.
Yesterday saw the launch of a national plan for the Scottish Gaelic language, setting out a "roadmap" for government, councils and public bodies, as well as the private and voluntary sectors, on how it should be developed.
The plan seeks to increase the number of school children being taught in Scottish Gaelic, encourage more adult learners and raise the profile of the language in everyday life.
Gaelic: Dying or on the brink of renaissance?
Future of Gaelic receives Executive boost
Source: The Scotsman
THE SCOTTISH Executive today announced a new initiative to develop a sustainable future for the Gaelic language in Scotland.
The National Plan for Scottish Gaelic provides government, local authorities, public bodies and the private and voluntary sectors with a five-year outline to maintain the existence of the language. The plan focuses on promoting and developing Gaelic to encourage people to learn and use it, in addition to ways of enhancing its status.
Future of Gaelic receives Executive boost
Minister calls for lessons in Gaelic
Source: The Scotsman
SCOTLAND'S minister for Gaelic has called for lessons in the language to be available to children across the country.
Patricia Ferguson, the Executive's minister for culture, who oversees policy for the Gaelic language, said that in an age when pupils were being encouraged to learn as many languages as possible, young Scots should take interest in one indigenous to Scotland itself.
She also claimed that the outlook for the Scottish Gaelic language was hopeful, despite the number of speakers continuing to fall, according to official figures.
Minister calls for lessons in Gaelic
Boost for Scottish Gaelic digital channel
Source: The BBC
Scottish Gaelic broadcasting is to receive an extra £3m every year to help establish a Gaelic digital channel.
The Scottish Executive funding will be on top of the £8.7m already given to the service each year.
It is estimated that the channel currently being developed by the Gaelic Media Service (GMS) will cost between £16m and £17m.
Boost for Gaelic digital channel
CalMac launches its detailed Gaelic plan
Source: The Herald
Ferry company Caledonian MacBrayne yesterday became one of the first public bodies to launch a detailed Gaelic language plan, as required by the Scottish Executive's Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act.
It was one of the organisations notified by the new statutory Scottish Gaelic body, Bord na Gaidhlig, that it would have to prepare a plan on how it would use the language in its everyday operation. CalMac completed the task ahead of schedule.
The directors of CalMac and its constituent companies recognise the need to employ sufficient Gaelic-speaking employees to be able to operate the plan, particularly in the area of regular customer contact.
CalMac launches its detailed Gaelic plan
Gaelic lessons get cash boost
Source: The Scotsman
PUPILS will be given more help in learning the Scottish Gaelic language thanks to a £210,000 grant from the Scottish Executive.
The council is to receive a relatively small slice of the £5 million set to be spent the country.
This is largely because the funding is targeted at areas where the Scottish Gaelic language option is likely to prove popular.
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