{"id":3628,"date":"2016-11-07T19:01:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2016-11-07T19:01:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T19:01:45","slug":"saoghal-thormoid-diluain-sinnsireachd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2016\/11\/07\/saoghal-thormoid-diluain-sinnsireachd\/","title":{"rendered":"Saoghal Thormoid: Diluain – Sinnsireachd"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"diluain\"<\/a>\u201cTha fhios aig a h-uile G\u00e0idheal c\u00f2 e.\u201d Tha Tormod a’ bruidhinn air a shinnsireachd fh\u00e8in, air taobh athar agus air taobh a mh\u00e0thar, agus ciamar a bha na ceanglaichean seo cudromach is e na ghille \u00f2g ann an Glaschu, Loch Abar agus Beinn na Faoghla. Tha cuimhne aige air a sheanair taobh athar, fear a ghl\u00e8idh duais seinn aig Cruinneachadh na h-Eaglaise Brice ann an 1878, is e a’ teagasg \u00f2rain dha. ‘S ann \u00e0s Uibhist a Tuath a bha a sheanmhair taobh a mh\u00e0thar a chaidh a dh’fhuireach ann an Glaschu, far nach do thog i a-riamh a’ Bheurla, agus i be\u00f2 ann an coimhearsnachd G\u00e0idhlig baile m\u00f2r Ghlaschu. Tha Tormod a’ me\u00f2rachadh air c\u00f2 ris a bha ceanglaichean eadar na coimhearsnachdan coltach bho dhiofar thaobhan nuair a bha e \u00f2g.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery Gael knows who he is.\u201d Norman talks about his genealogy, on both sides of the family, and how these family networks played an important part in his early upbringing in Glasgow, Lochaber, and Benbecula. He has clear memories of his paternal grandfather teaching him songs, a man who himself won a prize for Gaelic singing at the Falkirk Tryst of 1878. His maternal grandmother, meanwhile, migrated to Glasgow from North Uist and never learned to speak English, functioning socially just within the Gaelic-speaking community of Glasgow of that time. Norman reflects on how community relations were experienced from different perspectives in his childhood.<\/em><\/p>\n