Guthan nan Eilean

Select any video clip in this landscape format, or use the phone-friendly portrait layout. Lewis-man Donald S Murray is a Shetland resident. As an established writer, mostly in English, how does he keep his Gaelic going while living away from the Ness community where he acquired it? Following on from our recent “Jamaican in Wales”

Um pequeno documentário em Português sobre um encontro do Parlamento de Crianças de Uist e da Barra At Island Voices we welcome participation and contributions from speakers, learners, and researchers of any age and stage in multiple languages from all over the globe! Marina Yazbek Dias Peres is a student in the Research Program at Princeton

Here’s the fourth of our series of blogposts by Mary Morrison, with help from Archie Campbell and Zsuzsanna Ihar, in which she reflects on the Aire Air Sunnd project led by Comann Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath. As with her previous posts, comments are welcome! Mary writes: Cafaidh Gàidhlig agus Feasgar Dimàirt.  ‘Even the sheep and cows seemed

“Fàilte oirbh gu còmhradh eile ann an-seo aig Comann Eachdraidh Sgìre a’ Bhac …” Alasdair Campbell (Alasdair Tuxy) is interviewed by Coinneach MacÌomhair at Breivig Pier. And with CIALL assistance, another wordlinked transcript has now been created on the Clilstore platform: https://clilstore.eu/cs/11912

Island Voices has created a new playlist on the YouTube video channel for the collection of recordings made about Uist’s taighean-tughaidh – thatched houses. First contributions have come from Tommy MacDonald, telling some of the history from the site of Tobhta Mhic Eachainn and its connection to the “French Macdonalds”, and then quizzing his wife

Select any video clip named in this landscape poster, or use the phone-friendly portrait layout. Island Voices is extending its “language capture and curation” model, with CIALL support, to new contexts, new genres, and new languages, including the recording of aspects of UK-based Jamaican language use. Gaelic enthusiasts can rest assured this development does not

Kenny Murdo (Rev Ferguson) and his sister Christine are in conversation with Coinneach MacÌomhair in this video from Comann Eachdraidh Sgìre a’ Bhac, with memories of Sràid a’ Bhac, Bùth Bellann and their careers. This “Clilstore treatment” provides an online wordlinked transcript with the video embedded. You can get a translation of any word you

Select any language in this landscape poster, or use the phone-friendly portrait layout. The Children’s Parliament concept was first developed to scale in Rajasthan by India’s world-famous Barefoot College. UNESCO documented some of this fascinating history-in-the-making in video form. A similar idea was later tried out in the Outer Hebrides by the Scottish Children’s Parliament

“Over a hundred years old yet still sharp as ever, it was a great privilege to chat with Mrs Rena Maciver.” Another fascinating conversation from Comann Eachdraidh Sgìre a’ Bhac given the Clilstore treatment: https://clilstore.eu/cs/11872

Island Voices just struck lucky on a visit to Glasgow, witnessing and recording this free and open bilingual event put on by the Friends of Queens Park to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of Duncan Ban MacIntyre – Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir. The occasion was blessed by the renowned performing talents of