In the shadow of Charlottetown's St. Dunstan's Basilica on Great George Street stands a statue of Angus Bernard MacEachern, the Scottish immigrant to early British Prince Edward Island who brought Roman Catholicism to the territory.


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The Halifax Chronicle-Herald's John Demont describes the scale of the Scots Gaelic revival in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton. I'm inclined to think it much too late--had it been this time last century, when there were tens of thousands of Gaelic-speakers living and passing on their language to their children, the irreversible shift to English wouldn't ( Read more... )

Al Jazeera's Peter Geoghegan describes the somewhat unlikely spread of Irish Gaelic among Protestants in Northern Ireland. Apparently building on ancestral traditions of Scots Gaelic and close cultural connections between Ireland and Scotland, apparently knowledge of Irish Gaelic is starting to pick up.

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Imagine a world where Canada had three official languages.

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Alistair MacDiarmid's new Language Revitalization in Cape Breton (Press of the University of Cape Breton: Sydney, 2008), is a thin paperbook book at only132 pages, but befitting his status as the sociological giant of Canada's Scottish Gaelic-speaking community it's quite a ( Read more... )