Andy - Lowland Gaelic
a-ghalldachd.bsky.social
Andy - Lowland Gaelic
@a-ghalldachd.bsky.social
Investigating the past and present Gaeldom of Lowland Scotland - and further afield.
This page is a Scots leid friendly zone
Bring back the Ȝ
Gun robh math agad
'They haven't gone away you know!'
November 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
anyone else finding that AI is just completely incapable of coping with minority languages?
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Spotted this on The Irish Times coverage, no words
October 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
the gaelicisation of Scotland is generally understood as only following the Gaels > Picts route. Of course, it was more complex than this. The Gall-Gaidheal were cutting large swathes through the south at the same time. See this map from wikipedia, representing 1113 to 1123AD
October 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Medieval Galloway and Yugoslavia, more similar than you may have realised?

"Alex Woolf (2007) compares the shifting ethnic borders of the south-west of Scotland in this period [twelfth century] with the ethnic complexities of the Balkans..."
October 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Seo Davey Graham, key player in the 1960s British folk revival - and apparently a fluent Gaelic speaker. Wrote the classic 'Anji' and helped popularise DADGAD tuning. He was from a mixed race background, his mother being Guyanese and his father being Sgitheanach!

#BlackHistoryMonth
October 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
5) Dìleab Ailein
The Legacy of Allan MacArthur - Newfoundland Traditions Across Four Generations

Margaret Bennett

This one is a CD and a book, fully recommend if you can get it. Comhairle na Leabhraichean definitely had some
October 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
4) The Last Stronghold: The Scottish Gaelic Traditions of Newfoundland

Margaret Bennett
October 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
3) Urban Highlanders: Highland-Lowland Migration and Urban Gaelic Culture, 1700-1900

Charles W.J. Withers
October 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
2) Glasgow's Gaelic Place Names

Alasdair C. Whyte with Katherine Forsyth and Simon Taylor
October 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Gillespie often regaled his friends with stories of how the Scots had influenced the blacks in his home state of Alabama. He spoke to his long-time collaborator, Willie Ruff, a bassist and French horn player, about how his parents told of the black slaves who spoke Gaelic,the tongue of their masters
October 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Lots of people discussing 'Class' in the UK when really they would be much happier reading this book
October 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A thread of resources on Gaelic outside 'the traditional Gaidhealtachd'
I'll start with this, don't walk but run to get a copy now!
October 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Who can forget the old Shire of Cromarty, sadly merged with Ross in 1889 (presumably by some killjoy with no sense of humour)
September 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Govan is riverside district with a laid-back village vibe"
Google AI appears to be operating with a time machine jumping back to 1654
September 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Am faca tu seo?
(Aig an Scotsmans Steps/Albannaich Staidhre)
September 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Interesting sign here, although I can't make out all the writing. There's mention of a Scots word for a canal boat. Abody ken whit it mon be?
June 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I had a great wee cycle up the Calderbank to Coatbridge stretch of the canal the other week
June 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Very good wee map here from SpeakGaelic. The Galltachd section of the B1 book is excellent @ambaillidh.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
May 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Chunnaic mi seo air an drochaid air a’ mhìos a chaidh
May 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I prefer the older material
May 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The process was fairly simple. Tough, arduous work, but fairly straightforward. The picture below shows how it was done - several deep channels were cut through the middle. This was filled with water, chunks of moss were howked oot fae the ground, and carried away to the Forth by the Channel.
May 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
How did a bog become Blair Drummond Safari Park? How did we go from dolphins to elephants and lions? Enter Lord Kames
May 16, 2025 at 6:52 AM
At one point, it stretched all the way from near Aberfoyle, in the bottom of the Southern Highlands, to beyond Stirling. In the distant past, this would flood with sea water as well - only two years ago an 8000 year old dolphin skeleton was found buried under a garden in Stirling!
May 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM