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For all that the Guthan nan Eilean project is about recording \u201cIsland Voices\u201d, and so capturing and curating speech<\/em>, there are those who still prefer to read<\/em> \u2013 and not just online but off paper. With that in mind, the Soillse-supported \u201cSaoghal Thormoid\u201d series featuring Norman Maclean<\/a> in conversation with Gordon Wells has now been made available in printable format.<\/p>\nThis document, “Saoghal Thormoid – Norman Maclean: Synopses and Transcripts<\/a>“, contains a verbatim written version of all the recordings in the series, and is free to download. Complementing the transcripts are the brief synopses of each day\u2019s discussion previously published online.<\/p>\n \u201cTormod\u2019s life is an acknowledgement of the cultural wealth of Gaelic society, and by virtue of this archive, he represents an ambassador to its future.\u201d Give it a read!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For all that the Guthan nan Eilean project is about recording \u201cIsland Voices\u201d, and so capturing and curating speech, there are those who still prefer to read \u2013 and not just online but off paper. With that in mind, the Soillse-supported \u201cSaoghal Thormoid\u201d series featuring Norman Maclean in conversation with Gordon Wells has now … Continue reading Norman’s World – In Print!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/transcriptstitle2.jpg?w=300\" "\\"Click"){kind=spacer}
<\/a>What\u2019s additionally new, however, is the Foreword by Conch\u00far \u00d3 Giollag\u00e1in, Director of Soillse<\/a> and Gaelic Research Professor at the University of the Highlands and Islands, in which he maps out the significance of Norman\u2019s lifelong contribution to Gaelic culture, and the potential for research and recovery that work of this nature embodies.<\/p>\n