Thanks for posting this. Scottish Gaelic A/V material is hard to come by, unless you live in the UK and can get BBC Alba stuff (their website blocks almost all their shows from being watched in the US, and they even go out of their way to filter out most VPNs).
@liambyrne59120 күн бұрын
That is bullshit that the English saw the Gaels as savage we did not see the English as savage we knew they were a bunch of savages, the English were and are robbers they make the excuse that we were savages how is that possible the Irish went and thought them how to read
@BeginnerBagpipeАй бұрын
Would love to see Gov of Canada appologize for silencing the Gaels. Reconciliation for ALL!!!
@benvad90105 ай бұрын
You have to learn the language and use it in your home and community and learn to read and write also and practice all the traditions. It has to be a living part of your culture. English os the national language but you can't give up your native tongue ever.
@user-ht3dh5kc2p7 ай бұрын
Jessica Soho
@jackbassett93658 ай бұрын
I knew a man from Hungary that spent his preschool years with his maternal grandparents who were ethnic Germans. He spoke only German until his parents were able to take him back. His grandmother pleaded to him as he left their care to never forget their language. When he was escaping the Russians in 1956 he carried his young son into Austria in his arms. He could not speak enough German to ask for a crust of bread to give his son.
@josephmcdonald3072 Жыл бұрын
Interesting video. I remember my maternal grandparents being fluent Scots Gaelic speakers. Sad if not criminal what was done to Migmaq, Acadian and Scots Gaelic cultures in n.s. A revival now underway of Scots Gaelic. We need more fire under governments of n.s. and Canada. Whenever I hear Gaelic sung on cbfm, i think of my mother's people. My heart is still Gaelic.
@marylouraygarcia401 Жыл бұрын
The baby is empty of concepts so he/she? Could learn any language without knowing he/she is learning as opposed all of us adults .
@drzwiokna Жыл бұрын
glé mhath, tapadh leat.
@michaelsampson625 Жыл бұрын
Someone needs to formally ask the Canadian Gov & British Monarchy for an official appology. Reconciliation for all.
@eadgbeebgdae8146 Жыл бұрын
Tìr gun teanga, tìr gun anam
@maureenshaw737 Жыл бұрын
Chòrd sin rium gu mòr a Mhicheil. An dòchas gu bheil thu a' cumail gu math.
@IosuamacaMhadaidh Жыл бұрын
Glé mhath! Maybe I'm just a romantic, but hearing the language of our ancestors always gives me goosebumps and a longing to see a home I've never known! Slàinte mhath! Thank you to whomever produced this!🇺🇸🏴 Much ❤ to my Nova Scotia cousins!
@ivandinsmore6217 Жыл бұрын
Congratulations to Jeff Macdonald. He is a wonderful father who is teaching his son everything he knows. They obviously have a great relationship.
@zipperzoey2041 Жыл бұрын
For anyone interested in traditional Irish and Scottish songs and music in Irish Gaeilge and Scottish Gaelic, there's a very good youtube channel called Port Celtic Songs www.youtube.com/@CelticSongs/videos It features native language singers from both Ireland and Scotland along with translations in captions from the native languages to English.
@archiebrown3719 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this means alot to me too l felt my grandmothers pain for her macdonald ancestors those kings of the isles ave very much in my heart n mind n soul alba gu brath aghoul agam orst independent scotland is best for preserving whats left our broken up language my grandmother was flora macdonald who was linked with all this idea 🙏🙏🙏🏴🏴🏴💙💙💙
@caracortage3270 Жыл бұрын
Pure Irish!
@globaltraveller9 ай бұрын
Scottish not Irish.
@Jamestele1 Жыл бұрын
Awesome video. I wish America had an area, other than Boston, where significant Gaels/Celts resided, with the language/s. America wants everyone to become "American", which is near impossible to define, but in the 20th & 21st century, it seems to mean be materialistic as hell, and step on anyone who gets in your way to becoming partner at some firm that will replace you, as soon as you're lowered into the ground.
@rayleenharris9222 жыл бұрын
I am so sorry. You should be proud and a le to speak the language you grew up with. I'm ashamed as a cape bretoner.proud to be one.im so sorry
@Goruthar2 жыл бұрын
My mother speaks more Gaelic after Alzheimer's, they say long term memory is hard wired.
@MegaDonzee2 жыл бұрын
My g-grandmother spoke Gaelic, she was born in Port Hastings in 1844, I wish so much that I had known her!
@deltatango25812 жыл бұрын
I am Scottish and Irish, via my dad's side through his mom's side. I would love to see this beautiful language make a comeback. We spoke it with out great grandparents when we were little, as they did speak or understand English. When they passed, we were not made to keep speaking it. Sadly, it had fallen into a deep sleep. I am trying to relearn it, so I can pass it on to other family members.
@ikonikonikonikon6542 жыл бұрын
In ancient times, Ireland was called Scotia Major and Scotland was called Scotia Minor and then later immigrants into North America named their new homeland Nova Scotia (New Scotia). The name ‘Scotland’ - from Scotia, the ‘land of the Scoti’ ‘ is an ever-present reminder of that connection, between the Irish and the Scottish. In the early Middle Ages, a Scotus was an Irishman, a Gael, and the homeland of the Scoti was Ireland. It was only when an Irish dynasty - Dál Riata of Antrim - gained ascendancy in northern Britain, that it gradually became known as the land of the Scoti and therefore ‘Scotland’ was born. This can all be read in more detail here www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/crowning-of-irelands-last-scottish-high-king/. So it is not surprising that over a period of close to a thousand years the native languages of Scotland (Scots Gaelic) and Irish (Gaeilge) would diverge slightly, albeit only marginally more than a dialectical differencem but certainly not a "radically different language.
@brucecollins47292 жыл бұрын
ikonikon ikonikon. you need to do some serious research and not that nonsense off wiki. the scots entering scotland from ireland is a mythical tale written by medieval irish monks to give ireland an identity. type in.....leabhar gabhala the study of celtic mythology essay......then, type in....ireland and the celtic culture in search of ancient ireland..... then type in .. . ..ireland in pre-history a concise account...then.type in.....leabhar gabhala/the book of invasions. then type in...book of invasions mythical history of ireland....then type in.....the dna of the irish gael irish origenes......the gauls/galls as they were called. that,s why it,s written as "gallic" in scotland. so, no "gaels" entered scotland from ireland. gaels comes from irish monks.
@zipperzoey2041 Жыл бұрын
@@brucecollins4729 ikonikon quotes a scholarly article by a Professor of Medieval History from Trinity College Dublin. Whereas you, a random stream of whatever nonsense enters your head 🙃
@brucecollins4729 Жыл бұрын
@@zipperzoey2041 and where did this scholar professor of medieval history from trinity college dublin get his history.......the mythical book of invasions. the annals of the four masters written in 1640. so, unless your professor was around in 5/600hundred ad he will just be reading from the same mythical books. there are tombs/standing stones in the orkney islands that date to 4000 bc. it,s known as the capital of great britain. it is where these standing stone spread to all over britain and probably ireland. the wite facade on new grange was added in the 1960s. onyhoo, you people "know for a fact" the scotti entered scotland from ireland(nonsense of course) then surely you must know with the same conviction ......from where/when and how did they get to ireland?
@AeroQuestAerials2 жыл бұрын
Glè mhath air a dhèanamh.
@MrAllmightyCornholioz2 жыл бұрын
Do Scot Canucks eat haggis with maple syrup?
@tartantales11782 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know what song Goiridh and Pàdraig are singing a little under halfway through?
@GaelicMichael2 жыл бұрын
I think it’s usually referred to as “Òran a’ Phignig”
@b.r.91712 жыл бұрын
This language of yours, Gaelic, sounds so wonderful. I would love to know, that Gaelic or an other Celtic language spoken today, could be understood by the ancient Celtic people who lived thousand of years ago? What stories they could tell us. So wonderful to think and dream of.
@maharencall32192 жыл бұрын
There's an ancient Welsh text written in what is today southern Scotland called the Gododdin, about a last stand against the Anglo-Saxons, and I am amazed how much of it is still understandable with modern Welsh! I too wonder what amazing stories have been lost, but their voices are still to be heard in these languages:)
@jandunn1692 жыл бұрын
My great grandparents were Scottish and I am beginning to learn the language.
@rossmelanson69992 жыл бұрын
Everybody’s a victim!!!
@SLFbiker2 жыл бұрын
Iontach suimuil, d'fhoglaim mise Gaeilge nuair bhí mé fiche bliain d'aois, nuair tá suim agat .... Coinnigh an teanga beo, is Gael linn!
@Seumas-MacDhaibhidh2 жыл бұрын
Tha Gàidhlig cho boidheach. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig, agus tha beagan Gàidhlig agam an-dràsta, ach tha mi airson a h-uile rud as urrainn dhomh a dhèanamh airson chumail beò!
@johncahalane73272 жыл бұрын
If I listen closely I can understand Scots Gaelic, coming from Ireland helps, its not the language itself it is the accent.
@ulsterbenny4952 жыл бұрын
Same. The cadence sometimes throws me off, but the overall gist is pretty easy for me to understand. I personally find Manx a bit easier to understand, tho.
@waynemclaughlin89372 жыл бұрын
Maybe you can help me out with something that's been bothering me John Cahalane since you are from Ireland? My last name McLaughlin of what origin does the name McLaughlin come from is it Irish or Scottish? For example I traced my ancestry to a Charles MacLachlan in 1786 when he came to Canada and settled in the Northeast part of New Brunswick in a place called Tracadie NB now. When Charles MacLachlan moved there in 1786 there were a lot of French Acadian settlers already living there and he married an Acadian woman named Anne Lebreton and they eventually had ten children five sons and five daughters who married into the French Families around there. Anyways a man in New Brunswick whom I have never met decided to do a McLaughlin ancestry book on my family clan and in the book it said that Charles MacLachlan came from the Scottish Highlands and that when he came to North America in the 1770s he fought in the American Revolutionary War on the British side on behalf of King George III of England in the Black Watch Highland regiment. Anyways everytime I googled Charles MacLachlan's name it shows that he was born in 1759 in Ireland and that he died in Tracadie NB in 1842. Now would an Irishman fight in the American Revolutionary War of the 1770s on behalf of King George III of England? And also when I checked the origin of the McLaughlin name it goes all the way back to the 5th or 6th century in Northern Ireland. So my question is how do I identify myself as? An Irishman or a Scots man. For years I have been saying I am of a Scottish/Irish and Acadian ancestry. Anyways thank you for listening to me! Cheers 🍻 from Canada 🇨🇦 🇨🇮 🇬🇧 I wish there was a Scotland emoji flag on here, I guess I will have to settle for the Union Jack flag since Scotland is a part of the UK.
@monkeykingeater9 ай бұрын
@@waynemclaughlin8937 McLaughlin (typically spelt McLoughlin here in Donegal) is a common name in Western Ulster, on both sides of the border. In Irish it's Mac Lochlainn. "Mac" means "son" and was historically used as a suffix for patronymic names, a custom brought to Ireland by the Vikings. Many patronymic names became surnames, particularly amongst Norse-Gaels in both Ireland and Scotland. "Lochlann" is the Irish name for Scandinavia. There was extensive Norse settlement in both Ireland and Scotland in the early Middle Ages. Given all this, it's possible there are multiple branches of McLaughlins, as the name could have arisen independently in different parts of either Ireland or Scotland. According to Wikipedia, Western Ulster appears to be at least one origin, and where the name is most common. All this to say, you would have to do genealogical research to find out precisely where your ancestry came from, but it's likely you have ancestry from both Western Ulster and Scandinavia.
@brucecollins64115 күн бұрын
@@monkeykingeater lochlan is a scottish name . the vikings settled scotland before ireland. the macs also scottish entering ireland with the scottish gallowglass warriors. also, it's gallic in scotlandd which came from the gaulish regions of europe...gaul. scottish vikings once ruled dublin..
@jackiedickie71962 жыл бұрын
I just loved this video! My maternal great-grandmother was a Grant from Scotland who ended up in Nebraska. I've been trying to learn Gàidhlig online to honor that branch of my family but it's hard going at 72! Tapadh leibh!
@maxmarnau70192 жыл бұрын
If only there hadn't been that overloud distracting music in the background. It made it almost unbearable to listen to.
@neach-brathaidh-fala2 жыл бұрын
Great video, but to say the Gaels are the most conquered people is hugely problematic considering the first nations people in the area!
@GaelicMichael2 жыл бұрын
Of course First Nations people have suffered from colonialism, there is no denial of that, but part of the point is to problematise the highly simplistic binary thinking that people are either colonisers or the colonised. Most people are a mixture of both. And unlike First Nations people, many people who are descended from those Highland settlers have no awareness that they have an ancestral tradition other than that of “anglophone Britain” or loyalty to it. That is indicative of how deeply colonised they are.
@emilymacneil2862 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Cape Breton and I took Gaelic ever since I can remember and all through University. My grandparents spoke it to us growing up and my parents had a few words too. I lost the opportunity to speak it when I moved to the mainland and started working but since having me son two years ago I have started teaching myself again so I can pass my Gaelic onto him one day.
@nshelitack2 жыл бұрын
I have been struggling to learn Gaelic over the last year. I am finding it incredible difficult to find a way to learn, for people with 0-50% of the Gaelic it seems like the community is not open.
@AEMacDougall Жыл бұрын
Have you found a place to learn and a welcoming community? I've been learning since September and have found amazing people... both fluent and learning.
@JohnSmith-zk8xp2 жыл бұрын
mud flood reset, look it up
@bullnterrier48293 жыл бұрын
I am of Scottish and Mi'kmaq ancestry. I tried to learn Gaelic and OMG! It is so hard! 😂 Mi'kmaw is so much easier. Kind of flows out of me better. 😂
@rosestewart16062 жыл бұрын
I agree with this 100 percent. Thankfully they're teaching both in high school now
@bretwein37932 жыл бұрын
Go with the one you feel closer to.
@andrewjennings73063 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video. Got suprisingly political at the end tho.
@NP-iy1zu3 жыл бұрын
My maternal great-grandmother's parents had the surname Urquhart and that side came from Scotland to Nova Scotia in the 1800s. My great-grandmother's parents moved to Maine just over the border where we have been ever since. Interestingly enough, I am also a registered Mi'kmaq with Sipekne'katik in Nova Scotia through my father's side so a lot of ties to Nova Scotia on both sides of my family. I have recently decided to learn more about my roots and happy to have found this video.
@bullnterrier48293 жыл бұрын
Similar to my ancestry. I've run across your surname along while looking through documents! lol
@MandNsvideos6653 жыл бұрын
I can understand a small bit. Makes me want to learn Irish properly
@MandNsvideos6653 жыл бұрын
@@antseanbheanbocht4993 yes i know, i was just saying it makes me want to revisit the Irish language. I'm aware that its Gaelic and not Irish, but they're very similar to the point where even my poor Irish can make out a good bit of his Gaelic.
@michritch34933 жыл бұрын
Glè mhath! Tapadh leibh!
@Liza-sv2sz3 жыл бұрын
this is so beautiful and so sad
@joalexsg97413 жыл бұрын
This is so beautiful and so precious! Thank you so much for this amazing doc, sharing it on my edublogs and on social media!
@charlesdesmoulinsdefalaise38843 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! Keep the Scottish language alive. I'm learning it too.
@janetmackinnon34117 ай бұрын
Just saying : Gaelic is not the only Scottish language! There is Scots, Doric and; the language of Orkney and Shetland. We are a complicated race!
@philomelodia4 жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful language! Love how the women sound when they speak it. Gorgeous!
@stephenc11794 жыл бұрын
When i was young there were 500000 Gaelic speakers. Now there are 5000. And the Gaelic community in Canada,,those who learn gaelic as their first language, no longer exist. My cousins and i learned gaelic as our cradle language . Nobodoy does now..
@elainemordoch29343 жыл бұрын
It is good this is being discussed and more people are becoming aware of our history and the impact of losing a language
@andrewjennings73063 жыл бұрын
It is being revived. The first Gaelic only school is opening up in cape breton! Tha sgoil na gàidhlig ann an cape bhreton a-nis!
@stephenc11794 жыл бұрын
Gaelic is the third language of Canada. In my own lifetime there were Gaelic cultures in Cape Breton and Eastern Ontario- the only Gaelic speaking conmunities outside of Scotland -but I have also seen in my own lifetime how those have died out because Gaelic isnt cool. Everyone wants to speak English,
@kevindonohue29125 жыл бұрын
The (older) father and son (I presume) were singing Oran do Cheap Breatainn, a song I learned when I spent my summers on Cape Breton as a kid. Sadly, I never got beyond very basic Gaelic.