{"id":5104,"date":"2021-08-20T08:51:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T08:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2021-08-20T08:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T08:51:22","slug":"storas-beo-curstaidh-nicdhomhnaill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2021\/08\/20\/storas-beo-curstaidh-nicdhomhnaill\/","title":{"rendered":"St\u00f2ras Be\u00f2: Curstaidh NicDh\u00f2mhnaill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KirstyGordonJPeg\"Independent Gaelic consultant Kirsty Macdonald<\/a>, from Claddach Illeray in North Uist, talks to Gordon Wells.<\/p>\n

Patronymics (and a DNA test) reveal a long Gaelic-speaking lineage on her father<\/a>\u2019s side, while her mother first moved to Uist to learn the language, then marrying and settling down. From a family of teachers, Kirsty had a difficult relationship with education in her school years, but found her passion for Gaelic ignited when she left Uist to study, first at Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig, and then Edinburgh University.<\/p>\n

Talking to Gordon, she also fleshes out some of her memories and thoughts recently published in her very popular article on “Getting closer to home from a journey away<\/a>” in the West Highland Free Press, highlighting the treasures of Tobar an Dualchais<\/a>, and the importance in her eyes of discussing and addressing the concerns of Gaelic speakers in the vernacular community – a topic of current debate.<\/p>\n

YouTube “closed caption” videos are enabled here, so viewers have the choice of reading the Gaelic subtitles while they watch and listen. You can also, if you wish, get automatic machine translations of these into English and many other languages through the Settings menu.<\/p>\n