by Seaboard History Editor | Jul 11, 2014 | Gaelic
Placenames of Easter Ross a series of five bilingual articles by Davine Sutherland published in the Seaboard News in 2013, based on a research paper she did in 2011 for Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. (English versions in blue.) Online versions, with photos, in her...
by Seaboard History Editor | Jul 11, 2014 | Gaelic
Gaelic in Seaboard History Part 4: From World War 2 up to now: the English-speaking generations During World War 2 the Armed Forces had a strong presence in the area, especially with the building of the airfields in Fearn and Tarbat parishes (the ‘dromes’). With them...
by Seaboard History Editor | Jul 11, 2014 | Gaelic
Gaelic in the History of the Seaboard Part 1: the Middle Ages to 1750 Last year I wrote a series about local place-names, which we got from Scandinavian, Pictish, Gaelic, and English or Scots . (You can get this on our new website now:...
by Seaboard History Editor | Jul 11, 2014 | Gaelic
Gaelic in the history of Easter Ross Part 2: 1750 – 1850 – the century of ‘Improvement’ and the spread of English We have seen that Gaelic was the strongest language in Easter Ross over centuries, from the early Middle Ages onwards, but that...
by Seaboard History Editor | Mar 31, 2014 | Gaelic
Gaelic in the History of the Seaboard Part 3: 1850 – 1950 : “English for business, Gaelic for God” The Protestant church had always been important and strong in Easter Ross, and the local population referred to as ‘pious’ in all the...
by Seaboard History Editor | Mar 6, 2014 | Gaelic
Davine Sutherland, originally from Hilton has written a series of blog posts regarding the use of Gaelic in Scotland. Davine heard Gaelic spoken by her grandparents’ generation as a child, she has had a lifelong love of Gaelic song and has studied Gaelic...
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