Gaelic and Welsh Films Put Glasgow Fest Spotlight on Minority Languages in the U.K.

Leisa Gwenllian is a hard-partying young woman in rural Wales in Marc Evans' 'Effi o Blaenau,' while Jack Archer's doc 'Sailm nan Daoine' ('Psalms of the People') explores the Scottish psalm singing ...
The Independent

Mind your (minority) language: Welsh, Gaelic, Irish and Cornish are staging a comeback

Estyn, the Welsh school inspectors, concur – their 2011 annual report concluded that Welsh as a second language, in English-medium schools, wasn't meeting standards: "Many teachers are not confident ...
Irish Central

Getting Hebraic on Gaelic, how the Welsh and Israelis promote their languages

Daithí MacLochlainn who does Irish language tours of downtown Manhattan told me he starts his tour on the docks by the Seaport Museum where they have one of the oldest examples on brick of grafitti ...
Slate

Welsh Wikipedia Gives Me Hope

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s knowledge ecosystem. If you say, “Alexa, faint o’r gloch yw hi?” the smart speaker will not understand that you are asking for the ...
Irish Central

Cornish join Welsh, Irish and Scots as Celtic minority (VIDEOS)

The British government has announced that the Cornish are joining the Irish, Scots, and Welsh as official members of the United Kingdom’s Celtic minorities. This decision comes after a long campaign ...
The Independent

Mind your (minority) language: Welsh, Gaelic, Irish and Cornish are staging a comeback

Mind your (minority) language: Welsh, Gaelic, Irish and Cornish are staging a comeback Thanks to impassioned campaigners, Welsh is in fine fettle, and other minority languages are also on the up, as ...