Island Voices: Guthan nan Eilean
@islandvoices.bsky.social
Slices of mostly Hebridean life and work presented in Gaelic, English, and other languages. On Wordpress and YouTube, also Facebook. Posts by Gordon Wells.
Conversation with Cathie. From travelling childhood to North Uist settlement... What a fascinating life story! #Gaelic
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Cathie Laing in Conversation
North Uist resident Cathie Laing talks to Island Voices co-ordinator and fellow Aire air Sunnd participant, Gordon Wells. As with other longer conversations we’ve recorded, we’ve divide…
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November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Conversation with Cathie. From travelling childhood to North Uist settlement... What a fascinating life story! #Gaelic
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Nicholas Evans, of our Advisory Board, is featured in The Observer – his decades of fieldwork open windows onto how people think, remember, and inhabit place through language — Read Laura Spinney’s profile: Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented languages observer.co.uk/news/science...
Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented lang...
Nicholas Evans has spent decades trying to decipher the undocumented tongues of Papua New Guinea and Australia. His work has redefined the way we think a...
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October 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Nicholas Evans, of our Advisory Board, is featured in The Observer – his decades of fieldwork open windows onto how people think, remember, and inhabit place through language — Read Laura Spinney’s profile: Cracking the code of Papua New Guinea’s undocumented languages observer.co.uk/news/science...
The Collaborative Interactive and Applied Linguistic Links project (CIALL) recorded its most productive year yet in the 2024-25 academic session.. the continuing partnership with Island Voices saw new links created with Catalan, Caribbean Creole, and Farsi interests..
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September 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Collaborative Interactive and Applied Linguistic Links project (CIALL) recorded its most productive year yet in the 2024-25 academic session.. the continuing partnership with Island Voices saw new links created with Catalan, Caribbean Creole, and Farsi interests..
www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...
www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...
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Cumaibh 14mh–16mh Iuchar 2026 airson Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu.
Gairm phàipearan & fiosrachadh clàraidh uile ri thighinn.
Hold 14th–16th July 2026 for the Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference at the University of Glasgow.
Call for Papers & Registration information all to follow.
Gairm phàipearan & fiosrachadh clàraidh uile ri thighinn.
Hold 14th–16th July 2026 for the Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference at the University of Glasgow.
Call for Papers & Registration information all to follow.
September 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Cumaibh 14mh–16mh Iuchar 2026 airson Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu.
Gairm phàipearan & fiosrachadh clàraidh uile ri thighinn.
Hold 14th–16th July 2026 for the Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference at the University of Glasgow.
Call for Papers & Registration information all to follow.
Gairm phàipearan & fiosrachadh clàraidh uile ri thighinn.
Hold 14th–16th July 2026 for the Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference at the University of Glasgow.
Call for Papers & Registration information all to follow.
Noèlia writes “The project ‘Island Voices’ is more than an educational tool or a literary collection of poetic voices. It is a necessary dialogue between cultures." This means we now have five videos in total in our Catalan Selection among all our Other Tongues!
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Catalan Collection
Noèlia Díaz-Vicedo is the third member of the multilingual poetic partnership pulled together by Martin MacIntyre for his “A’ ruith eadar dà dhràgon” collection of poems in four languages, in which…
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September 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Noèlia writes “The project ‘Island Voices’ is more than an educational tool or a literary collection of poetic voices. It is a necessary dialogue between cultures." This means we now have five videos in total in our Catalan Selection among all our Other Tongues!
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guthan.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/c...
Parnaz writes: "... I believe that the ‘Island Voices’ project is more than merely an educational resource; it represents an environment in which multilingualism is celebrated as a valuable asset..."
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Farsi Reflections
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 year…
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September 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Parnaz writes: "... I believe that the ‘Island Voices’ project is more than merely an educational resource; it represents an environment in which multilingualism is celebrated as a valuable asset..."
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"... and it sometimes takes us to places where community language connections with our home territory may not always be immediately obvious...."
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Creole Connections
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 pl…
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September 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"... and it sometimes takes us to places where community language connections with our home territory may not always be immediately obvious...."
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Language issues in the mix here in the Storiel.cymru Collections, with a nice wee plug appended to Island Voices' outreach work... 🙂
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Audrey West - Storiel
Audrey West discussing her artistic response to the commission
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August 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Language issues in the mix here in the Storiel.cymru Collections, with a nice wee plug appended to Island Voices' outreach work... 🙂
www.storiel.cymru/audrey-west/
www.storiel.cymru/audrey-west/
"... we’re delighted that visitors can now access the recording in situ through these displayed QR codes, and so get a taste again of a magical occasion.
Queen’s Park will be humming again with snippets of Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain…" #Gaelic #Gàidhlig
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Queen’s Park will be humming again with snippets of Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain…" #Gaelic #Gàidhlig
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Duncan Ban in the Park
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 inv…
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August 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"... we’re delighted that visitors can now access the recording in situ through these displayed QR codes, and so get a taste again of a magical occasion.
Queen’s Park will be humming again with snippets of Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain…" #Gaelic #Gàidhlig
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Queen’s Park will be humming again with snippets of Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain…" #Gaelic #Gàidhlig
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Part of the Taisce Bheo na nGael project in which the UHI Language Sciences Institute, together with Irish partners, record the natural speech of #Irish and #Scottish #Gaelic speakers in their own communities with user-friendly equipment and techniques. #Gaeilge
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Seán Ó Con Ceanainn (2)
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 rás…
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August 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Part of the Taisce Bheo na nGael project in which the UHI Language Sciences Institute, together with Irish partners, record the natural speech of #Irish and #Scottish #Gaelic speakers in their own communities with user-friendly equipment and techniques. #Gaeilge
guthan.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/s...
guthan.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/s...
"Online publication also means, of course, that live links can be incorporated in the text, so that readers can quickly and easily sample the recordings referred to.. This is no small consideration for a primarily speech-oriented project like Guthan nan Eilean!"
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Guth Thormoid: Norman’s Voice
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 fir…
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July 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
"Online publication also means, of course, that live links can be incorporated in the text, so that readers can quickly and easily sample the recordings referred to.. This is no small consideration for a primarily speech-oriented project like Guthan nan Eilean!"
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"The Island Voices documentary, in tracing the life stories of ILT workers and how their careers developed and diversified, reinforces the point that multilingualism is an established fact of UK life, and always has been."
#NATECLA25 #IslandofFriends
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#NATECLA25 #IslandofFriends
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Island Voices at NATECLA 2025
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 Eng…
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July 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"The Island Voices documentary, in tracing the life stories of ILT workers and how their careers developed and diversified, reinforces the point that multilingualism is an established fact of UK life, and always has been."
#NATECLA25 #IslandofFriends
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#NATECLA25 #IslandofFriends
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Video number 500(!) from Guthan nan Eilean introduces Ifor ap Glyn, National Poet of Wales 2016-2022. Martin MacIntyre narrates in Gaelic. Part of a suite of clips featuring poetry, documentary video, and unscripted conversation. (Full details in the YouTube video description.)
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Ifor ap Glyn: Cuimreach à Lunnainn
YouTube video by Island Voices Videos
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June 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Video number 500(!) from Guthan nan Eilean introduces Ifor ap Glyn, National Poet of Wales 2016-2022. Martin MacIntyre narrates in Gaelic. Part of a suite of clips featuring poetry, documentary video, and unscripted conversation. (Full details in the YouTube video description.)
youtu.be/F_XocPUtEIY
youtu.be/F_XocPUtEIY
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.
Samples of poetic verse, documentary narrative, and authentic speech. #Cymraeg #Welsh
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Samples of poetic verse, documentary narrative, and authentic speech. #Cymraeg #Welsh
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Ifor ap Glyn: Welshman from London
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/Gut…
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June 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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.
Samples of poetic verse, documentary narrative, and authentic speech. #Cymraeg #Welsh
guthan.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/i...
Samples of poetic verse, documentary narrative, and authentic speech. #Cymraeg #Welsh
guthan.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/i...
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New Gaelic Project
Building on previous projects, LEACAN 2 will provide more guidance on grammatical and spelling issues in Gaelic where there is uncertainty.
We are seeking views on points of Gaelic grammar (or spelling) where there is a need for (more) guidance or explanation. (1/5)
Building on previous projects, LEACAN 2 will provide more guidance on grammatical and spelling issues in Gaelic where there is uncertainty.
We are seeking views on points of Gaelic grammar (or spelling) where there is a need for (more) guidance or explanation. (1/5)
June 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
New Gaelic Project
Building on previous projects, LEACAN 2 will provide more guidance on grammatical and spelling issues in Gaelic where there is uncertainty.
We are seeking views on points of Gaelic grammar (or spelling) where there is a need for (more) guidance or explanation. (1/5)
Building on previous projects, LEACAN 2 will provide more guidance on grammatical and spelling issues in Gaelic where there is uncertainty.
We are seeking views on points of Gaelic grammar (or spelling) where there is a need for (more) guidance or explanation. (1/5)
"... It’s a project which records the natural speech of Irish and Scottish #Gaelic speakers in their own communities with user-friendly equipment and techniques. In an additional challenge for Scottish Gaelic speakers, the descriptions are offered in Irish!..."
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Jimí agus Pádraig updated
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 a…
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June 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
"... It’s a project which records the natural speech of Irish and Scottish #Gaelic speakers in their own communities with user-friendly equipment and techniques. In an additional challenge for Scottish Gaelic speakers, the descriptions are offered in Irish!..."
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Straight to the 40+ videos - with options for learners and non-speakers of #Gaelic
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Shortcuts
This page brings together a range of short Gaelic conversational clips featuring additional support for learners or non-speakers. In each case the optional Closed Caption (CC) YouTube subtitles are…
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June 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Straight to the 40+ videos - with options for learners and non-speakers of #Gaelic
guthan.wordpress.com/shortcuts/
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