Guthan nan Eilean

The CIALL-supported Island Voices presence at NATECLA 2025 has paid immediate dividends, in the form of a new Farsi version of the “Multilingual Memories: Birmingham 1984” film looking back 40 years at the Industrial Language Training Service. Evidently it struck a chord with conference participant Parnaz Pourshakibaee, who showed immediate interest in the theme, and

The Island Voices “Capture and Curation” approach is highly productive of new material in new languages to add to the original Hebridean focus on Gaelic and English, and it sometimes takes us to places where community language connections with our home territory may not always be immediately obvious. As we fill out new gaps which

The sonorous verse of Duncan Ban MacIntyre can now be heard on your phone any time you visit the Scottish Poetry Rose Garden in Glasgow’s Queen’s Park. Friends of Queen’s Park invited Alan Riach and Allan MacDonald to mark his 300th anniversary last year, and they provided a remarkable open air music and poetry double

Cur síos ag Seán Ó Con Ceanainn, as an Móinteach, Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe, ar an iománaíocht (na camógaí) agus ar an bpeil; ar bazaar na Faiche Móire an áit a casadh a bhean chéile air aimsir rástaí na Gaillimhe; a gcéad ghluaisteán, Baby Austin, i 1956, agus haicní spárálach a gcomharsan; sábháilt agus díol

The Island Voices project is featured in the new book “Foundational approaches to Celtic Linguistics“, through a chapter on the late Norman Maclean by Gordon Wells. This volume is a first venture into current issues in Celtic linguistics for the free open access academic publisher, Language Science Press. From the editors’ preface: Gordon Wells’ chapter

The recently completed Island Voices project “Multilingual Memories: Birmingham 1984” was on prominent display at this year’s annual conference of NATECLA, the National Association for Teaching English and Other Community Languages to Adults, held in Birmingham on 27th and 28th June. Project representatives Harmesh Manghra (first on left) and Sardul Dhesi (second from right) are

Select any video clip in this landscape format, or use the phone-friendly portrait layout. Ifor ap Glyn, National Poet of Wales 2016-2022, has become the latest contributor to the Island Voices/Guthan nan Eilean Extensions project supported by CIALL. We first crossed paths when Ifor supplied the Welsh translation of our “Jamaican in Wales” documentary about

In the continuing collaboration through CIALL with Irish partners on Stòras Beò nan Gàidheal/Taisce Bheo na nGael we’re delighted to host two more recordings (Parts 3 and 4) of Jimí Chearra and Pádraig Chearra, in addition to those already posted. It’s a project which records the natural speech of Irish and Scottish Gaelic speakers in

While recording natural conversational speech of fluent Gaelic speakers over the past couple of years, we have taken to also “scaffolding” these clips for the benefit of any Gaelic learners or non-speakers who wish to follow them as well. We now have a new “Shortcuts” page where these clips are collected together for ease of

Tommy Macdonald of Howmore in South Uist delivers a Gaelic guided tour of the old chapels and graveyard, dating at least as far back as the 9th Century, and shares some stories about the burial practices which continued into living memory. As a well-known and respected local historian Tommy has been the central linking figure