Scottish Gaelic News

Below we have listed recent Scottish Gaelic news articles. The articles are in English about Scottish Gaelic issues.

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."

The Gaelic Job

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.

And the Oscar will not go to

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.

Gaelic lessons get cash boost