Singing against the Silence: The Gaels of Nova Scotia
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2013
- Documentary about Gaelic and Gaels in Nova Scotia and current efforts to revitalize the language and culture. In Gaelic with English subtitles. @ 2012, Michael Newton. High-definition. (Revision 3.)
I grew up in Cape Breton and I took Gaelic ever since I can remember and all through University. My grandparents spoke it to us growing up and my parents had a few words too. I lost the opportunity to speak it when I moved to the mainland and started working but since having me son two years ago I have started teaching myself again so I can pass my Gaelic onto him one day.
I have started to learn Gaelic, and love the sound of it. My father's family lost it with his generation for many of the reasons talked about in this documentary. Tapadh leigh, Nì mi n'uile dhìcheall.
Glé mhath! Maybe I'm just a romantic, but hearing the language of our ancestors always gives me goosebumps and a longing to see a home I've never known! Slàinte mhath! Thank you to whomever produced this!🇺🇸🏴 Much ❤ to my Nova Scotia cousins!
I was largely exposed to the Scots language and spoke it until the age of 10 with my maternal grandparents; Annie McDonald: Born 1903 - 1992 in North Uist and my old Grandad Duncan McDonell... born 1883 - 1971 Glace Bay ,Cape Breton. I am still known as Dougall in the clan. I know all the old songs and am a Celtic performer with a Ukrainian last name. God Bless the Highland Gaels.
Scots is the dialect of english spoken here in Scotland. Scottish gaelic is what you hear in this video. Thanks
@@lordracula2461 quite right you are, a momentary lapse. Cheers from Vancouver.
@@jamesewanchook2276 damn, yoi actually came back to this comment two years after posting it?
I am Scottish and Irish, via my dad's side through his mom's side. I would love to see this beautiful language make a comeback. We spoke it with out great grandparents when we were little, as they did speak or understand English. When they passed, we were not made to keep speaking it. Sadly, it had fallen into a deep sleep. I am trying to relearn it, so I can pass it on to other family members.
Such a beautiful language! Love how the women sound when they speak it. Gorgeous!
My great grandparents were Scottish and I am beginning to learn the language.
The (older) father and son (I presume) were singing Oran do Cheap Breatainn, a song I learned when I spent my summers on Cape Breton as a kid. Sadly, I never got beyond very basic Gaelic.
There's no time to learn more like the present!
Wonderful! Keep the Scottish language alive. I'm learning it too.
Just saying : Gaelic is not the only Scottish language! There is Scots, Doric and; the language of Orkney and Shetland. We are a complicated race!
I am of Scottish and Mi'kmaq ancestry. I tried to learn Gaelic and OMG! It is so hard! 😂 Mi'kmaw is so much easier. Kind of flows out of me better. 😂
I agree with this 100 percent. Thankfully they're teaching both in high school now
Go with the one you feel closer to.
Glè mhath! Tapadh leibh!
My maternal great-grandmother's parents had the surname Urquhart and that side came from Scotland to Nova Scotia in the 1800s. My great-grandmother's parents moved to Maine just over the border where we have been ever since. Interestingly enough, I am also a registered Mi'kmaq with Sipekne'katik in Nova Scotia through my father's side so a lot of ties to Nova Scotia on both sides of my family. I have recently decided to learn more about my roots and happy to have found this video.
Similar to my ancestry. I've run across your surname along while looking through documents! lol
A story, a part of us...
this is so beautiful and so sad
I just loved this video! My maternal great-grandmother was a Grant from Scotland who ended up in Nebraska. I've been trying to learn Gàidhlig online to honor that branch of my family but it's hard going at 72! Tapadh leibh!
This is so beautiful and so precious! Thank you so much for this amazing doc, sharing it on my edublogs and on social media!
A heroic epic of human survival. Illegitimi non carborundum est.
Your man there with the sword and shinty stick on the wall 😂😂
That's my friend Jeff MacDonald! A fine man!
@@iainmackillop2128I attended MUN with him! Good to see him.
I noticed that, too! 🤣
Tha seo dìreach mìorbhailleach! Cha robh càil a dh'fhios agam gu robh na tha seo de Ghàidhlig air fhàgail ann an Alba Nuadh, gu seachd àraid am measg dhaoine òga. Chòird e rium fìor-mhath. Beannachdan á Alba Aosda!
Interesting video. I remember my maternal grandparents being fluent Scots Gaelic speakers. Sad if not criminal what was done to Migmaq, Acadian and Scots Gaelic cultures in n.s. A revival now underway of Scots Gaelic. We need more fire under governments of n.s. and Canada. Whenever I hear Gaelic sung on cbfm, i think of my mother's people. My heart is still Gaelic.
Go raibh maith agat a Mhicheal! Beanacht De leat agus beanacht De le hanamacha na marbh. Ba mhath liom dul go dti ansin (Alba Nua) la eigin, le cuidiu De.
I knew a man from Hungary that spent his preschool years with his maternal grandparents who were ethnic Germans. He spoke only German until his parents were able to take him back. His grandmother pleaded to him as he left their care to never forget their language. When he was escaping the Russians in 1956 he carried his young son into Austria in his arms. He could not speak enough German to ask for a crust of bread to give his son.
When i was young there were 500000 Gaelic speakers. Now there are 5000. And the Gaelic community in Canada,,those who learn gaelic as their first language, no longer exist. My cousins and i learned gaelic as our cradle language . Nobodoy does now..
It is good this is being discussed and more people are becoming aware of our history and the impact of losing a language
It is being revived. The first Gaelic only school is opening up in cape breton!
Tha sgoil na gàidhlig ann an cape bhreton a-nis!
Congratulations to Jeff Macdonald. He is a wonderful father who is teaching his son everything he knows. They obviously have a great relationship.
Thanks for this means alot to me too l felt my grandmothers pain for her macdonald ancestors those kings of the isles ave very much in my heart n mind n soul alba gu brath aghoul agam orst independent scotland is best for preserving whats left our broken up language my grandmother was flora macdonald who was linked with all this idea 🙏🙏🙏🏴🏴🏴💙💙💙
Tapadh leibh 'son seo, a Mhìcheil - tha cho math a' cluintinn mu dheidhinn na Gàidheal air taobh eile na mara.
I have been struggling to learn Gaelic over the last year. I am finding it incredible difficult to find a way to learn, for people with 0-50% of the Gaelic it seems like the community is not open.
Have you found a place to learn and a welcoming community? I've been learning since September and have found amazing people... both fluent and learning.
My g-grandmother spoke Gaelic, she was born in Port Hastings in 1844, I wish so much that I had known her!
This language of yours, Gaelic, sounds so wonderful.
I would love to know, that Gaelic or an other Celtic language spoken today, could be understood by the ancient Celtic people who lived thousand of years ago? What stories they could tell us. So wonderful to think and dream of.
There's an ancient Welsh text written in what is today southern Scotland called the Gododdin, about a last stand against the Anglo-Saxons, and I am amazed how much of it is still understandable with modern Welsh! I too wonder what amazing stories have been lost, but their voices are still to be heard in these languages:)
Tha Gàidhlig cho boidheach. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig, agus tha beagan Gàidhlig agam an-dràsta, ach tha mi airson a h-uile rud as urrainn dhomh a dhèanamh airson chumail beò!
scots gaelic is stilll spoken in nova scotia. in small pockets, mainly old people. irish died out in the last century
Sad loss of culture .
More people are trying to learn the language. Let's keep this going!!
@@elainemordoch2934 it is on duolingo now and there is a gaelic school opening up in cape breton!
Iontach suimuil, d'fhoglaim mise Gaeilge nuair bhí mé fiche bliain d'aois, nuair tá suim agat .... Coinnigh an teanga beo, is Gael linn!
Gle mhath! Beannachd agaibh!
Chòrd sin rium gu mòr a Mhicheil. An dòchas gu bheil thu a' cumail gu math.
Awesome video. I wish America had an area, other than Boston, where significant Gaels/Celts resided, with the language/s. America wants everyone to become "American", which is near impossible to define, but in the 20th & 21st century, it seems to mean be materialistic as hell, and step on anyone who gets in your way to becoming partner at some firm that will replace you, as soon as you're lowered into the ground.
The same thing happened with amazigh in north Africa after the invasion of Arab.
So true, and their pagan religion was wiped out and it would be even dangerous to try to revive it there (there was an attempt by the Guanches in the Canary Isles but I don´t know if they're still carrying it one). Here in the West, however, if these Nova Scotia Celts decide to practice their Druidic tradition again they will not be punished or persecuted, at least not now.
@@joalexsg9741 by the way if you mean Islam by their religion in the arab world ,i 'd like to inform you that some etenicity still practice their religions"jewish Christian sabeans yazids druze.....". Arab world are not only Muslims.just so you know.😊😊😊.
@@mouniaffm2791
I know but not in Saudi Arabia: all the ancient pagan, Jewish and Christian communities which already existed there prior to Islam, in the case of the pagans and Jews way before it, have been wiped out.
Moreover, outside of Israel, most of these communities suffer persecution under the Islamic regimes, even when they apparently coexist without problems, as in Iran: under a more careful scrutiny as revelations from undercover investigations show it, the persecutions and humiliations are appalling.
I'm an activist for minority cultures and have been doing activism for them for a few decades. I have included the MENA minorities among them since 2010 but unfortunately the presence of pagans in MENA is reduced to a fringe minority in Lebanon (and even so they have to stay anonymous for safety reasons) and in modern Israel. Jewish and Christian Amazighs are safer in Israel and even more so pagans.
However, there are some sites and videos by cultural activists showing a bit of the ancestral pagan gods of their people, even some Amazigh pagan sites but, apart from an initiative about a decade ago in the Canary Isles, no other pagan Amazigh revival has been recorded so far and perhaps for the moment it´s even advisable they don't try it since they'd run death risk if they went public about it.
Just in case someone who reads us might be interested in learning more about the pagan traditions of some of these peoples of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), I'd suggest a few introductory but very substantial and reliable links:
Pagan Arabia
courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-worldhistory/chapter/pre-islamic-arabia/
wathanism.blogspot.com/2011/11/deities-beings-and-figures-in-arabian.html
Amazigh pagan deities:
www.temehu.com/imazighen/tamazight-mythology.htm
en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/83309/berber-mythology-three-gods-that.html
The *Domari of Jerusalem
*The eastern branch of the Roma, aka 'gypsies', a term we should avoid, by the way.
ruclips.net/video/md6fuIOXJuc/видео.html
The Druze in Israel
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS | Inside the New Generation of Druze in Israel's North, Majdal Shams
ruclips.net/video/UqUwoUiBRsU/видео.html
Israeli Army Druze Battalion
ruclips.net/video/9xp35QfJwsA/видео.html
Hidden Heritage: Aramean Christians Fighting for Israel
ruclips.net/video/QEPvf2TQ0ko/видео.html
Bedouins in Israel
Bedouin hospitality in Israel | bedouin israeli culture | desert experience israel with Shin Tours
ruclips.net/video/gBlsakpMpyo/видео.html
Muslim Bedouins In The IDF
ruclips.net/video/BYujb9g6OXc/видео.html
@@joalexsg9741 okey I see.but for that we should not blame Islam. We should blame the regime. In the Quran there is a verse "you have your religion and I have mine".
@@mouniaffm2791 Mounia, have you read about the life of Mohammed? And about the Qur'an from Medina and the Qur'an from Mecca?
A Simple Koran: Readable and Understandable (The Islamic Trilogy Series, Vol. 3) Paperback - July 1, 2006
by Bill Warner (Editor)
www.amazon.com/Simple-Koran-Readable-Understandable-Islamic/dp/0978552881/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1512758252&sr=1-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=thecatthi-20&linkId=aaf5d401e20f7c5bf7d1cdfce3912b14
Koran - The truth about the holy book of Islam
ruclips.net/video/Gu9u6fY982Y/видео.html
Don´t forget that Mohammed waged battles, the first one being the undeniable Battle of Badr, and so did all his early followers, spreading Islam by the sword, as the Battle of Yarmuk and the early incursions into what is now Georgia and Armenia show.
Also: The Battle of Yarmuk: An Assessment of the Immediate Factors behind the Islamic Conquests
www.amazon.com/Battle-Yarmuk-Assessment-Immediate-Conquests/dp/1725826631/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Raymond+Ibrahim&qid=1612000812&s=books&sr=1-2
Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West
by Raymond Ibrahim (Author), Victor Davis Hanson (Foreword)
www.amazon.com/Sword-Scimitar-Fourteen-Centuries-between/dp/0306825554/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Sword+and+Scimitar+Raymond&qid=1612001643&s=books&sr=1-1
It´s not a pacific religion at all cause the first battles, like the Battle of Badri, are not something you can blame on the corruption by followers, as it happened to Christianism, since neither its pacific founder, a rabbi, nor his family and his apostles, ever waged any battle or ever condoned stonings, neither much less beheaded any defenseless victims - not to mention they didn´t have sexual slaves either. If we are to believe the Hadiths, however, the picture is quite different in the Islamic tradition:
wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur%27an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Slavery
wikiislam.net/wiki/Rape_in_Islamic_Law
wikiislam.github.io/wiki/Rape_in_Islam.html
Unfortunately, even the Old Testament is filled with this insanity of patriarchal monotheism and some ultra orthodox rabbis sometimes come out as very supportive of the old punishments, as 'radical' Muslims with their Sharia. They're all very much alike, the main difference being that ultra orthodox rabbis do NOT accept conversions, whereas orthodox Muslim clerics demand their followers to spread Sharia (and their orthodoxy) worldwide.
Moreover, if you think the Saudi version of Islam is a corruption of a supposed more tolerant doctrine, I can tell you that is tantamount to say that the Vatican has corrupted Catholicism, which is obviously absurd.
Actually, it´s even worse cause Christianity was originally a Jewish sect, thus its prophet was a Jewish rabbi from the Israelite Holy Land, not Rome, whereas the prophet of Islam was born in Saudi Arabia, the undeniable cradle of Islam, in which, by the way, all the ancient Jewish, pagan and Christian communities have been wiped out by Islam.
Someone needs to formally ask the Canadian Gov & British Monarchy for an official appology. Reconciliation for all.
I can understand a small bit. Makes me want to learn Irish properly
@@antseanbheanbocht4993 yes i know, i was just saying it makes me want to revisit the Irish language. I'm aware that its Gaelic and not Irish, but they're very similar to the point where even my poor Irish can make out a good bit of his Gaelic.
Gaelic is the third language of Canada. In my own lifetime there were Gaelic cultures in Cape Breton and Eastern Ontario- the only Gaelic speaking conmunities outside of Scotland -but I have also seen in my own lifetime how those have died out because Gaelic isnt cool. Everyone wants to speak English,
what county is the film talking about my family is planning on moving to Nova Scotia and I wish to tell them about this
Canada
Gaelic is most commonly spoken, taught and sung on the island of Cape Breton, especially in Inverness, Victoria and Richmond Counties.
@@ronaldstewart5842 Mabu has a lot of speakers as well :)
@@soulsurfer639 wheres mabu?
@@andrewjennings7306 Mabou, or Mhábu, is also in Cape Breton
If I listen closely I can understand Scots Gaelic, coming from Ireland helps, its not the language itself it is the accent.
Same. The cadence sometimes throws me off, but the overall gist is pretty easy for me to understand. I personally find Manx a bit easier to understand, tho.
Maybe you can help me out with something that's been bothering me John Cahalane since you are from Ireland? My last name McLaughlin of what origin does the name McLaughlin come from is it Irish or Scottish? For example I traced my ancestry to a Charles MacLachlan in 1786 when he came to Canada and settled in the Northeast part of New Brunswick in a place called Tracadie NB now. When Charles MacLachlan moved there in 1786 there were a lot of French Acadian settlers already living there and he married an Acadian woman named Anne Lebreton and they eventually had ten children five sons and five daughters who married into the French Families around there. Anyways a man in New Brunswick whom I have never met decided to do a McLaughlin ancestry book on my family clan and in the book it said that Charles MacLachlan came from the Scottish Highlands and that when he came to North America in the 1770s he fought in the American Revolutionary War on the British side on behalf of King George III of England in the Black Watch Highland regiment. Anyways everytime I googled Charles MacLachlan's name it shows that he was born in 1759 in Ireland and that he died in Tracadie NB in 1842. Now would an Irishman fight in the American Revolutionary War of the 1770s on behalf of King George III of England? And also when I checked the origin of the McLaughlin name it goes all the way back to the 5th or 6th century in Northern Ireland. So my question is how do I identify myself as? An Irishman or a Scots man. For years I have been saying I am of a Scottish/Irish and Acadian ancestry. Anyways thank you for listening to me! Cheers 🍻 from Canada 🇨🇦 🇨🇮 🇬🇧 I wish there was a Scotland emoji flag on here, I guess I will have to settle for the Union Jack flag since Scotland is a part of the UK.
@@waynemclaughlin8937 McLaughlin (typically spelt McLoughlin here in Donegal) is a common name in Western Ulster, on both sides of the border. In Irish it's Mac Lochlainn.
"Mac" means "son" and was historically used as a suffix for patronymic names, a custom brought to Ireland by the Vikings. Many patronymic names became surnames, particularly amongst Norse-Gaels in both Ireland and Scotland. "Lochlann" is the Irish name for Scandinavia. There was extensive Norse settlement in both Ireland and Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
Given all this, it's possible there are multiple branches of McLaughlins, as the name could have arisen independently in different parts of either Ireland or Scotland. According to Wikipedia, Western Ulster appears to be at least one origin, and where the name is most common.
All this to say, you would have to do genealogical research to find out precisely where your ancestry came from, but it's likely you have ancestry from both Western Ulster and Scandinavia.
Does anyone know what song Goiridh and Pàdraig are singing a little under halfway through?
I think it’s usually referred to as “Òran a’ Phignig”
is fheàrr Gàidhlig bhriste na Gàidhlig sa chiste. #Gàidhlig
macdonnell here lost sons of Ireland. Americanized in there Germanic Midwest. isolated forever
Lost sons of Scotland! MacDonnell from the Dunyveg Macdomhnaill. The original descendants of Somerled, the 1st clans of Scotland. I would go as far as to say more than 50% of Americans who think they are of Irish descent are actually of Scottish. Peace!
@@beanythekid I doubt it. And probably many who think they are Scottish are Irish. I would say it evens itself out.
glé mhath, tapadh leat.
You have to learn the language and use it in your home and community and learn to read and write also and practice all the traditions. It has to be a living part of your culture. English os the national language but you can't give up your native tongue ever.
Great video, but to say the Gaels are the most conquered people is hugely problematic considering the first nations people in the area!
Of course First Nations people have suffered from colonialism, there is no denial of that, but part of the point is to problematise the highly simplistic binary thinking that people are either colonisers or the colonised. Most people are a mixture of both. And unlike First Nations people, many people who are descended from those Highland settlers have no awareness that they have an ancestral tradition other than that of “anglophone Britain” or loyalty to it. That is indicative of how deeply colonised they are.
Do Scot Canucks eat haggis with maple syrup?
Pure Irish!
Scottish not Irish.
Tìr gun teanga, tìr gun anam
My mother speaks more Gaelic after Alzheimer's, they say long term memory is hard wired.
Jessica Soho
Glè mhath air a dhèanamh.
I am so sorry. You should be proud and a le to speak the language you grew up with. I'm ashamed as a cape bretoner.proud to be one.im so sorry
As the Irish gay_lic language becomes distinct as people did not continue to teach and learn the language since its heritage where the people then spoke it . It then dies out as the generations change and the languages change mostly to English language then English took over and the Irish Gay_lic languages or even Scottish gealic did not continue to be taught . It is only now generations later that are now demanding the scottish Gaa_lic to be tought . Either than that the scottish Gaa_lic and Irish gaay-lic is in the roots of the country where it was spoken others are now learning the language from outside the local countries far and wide.
If only there hadn't been that overloud distracting music in the background. It made it almost unbearable to listen to.
Fantastic video. Got suprisingly political at the end tho.
Everybody’s a victim!!!
mud flood reset, look it up
In ancient times, Ireland was called Scotia Major and Scotland was called Scotia Minor and then later immigrants into North America named their new homeland Nova Scotia (New Scotia). The name ‘Scotland’ - from Scotia, the ‘land of the Scoti’ ‘ is an ever-present reminder of that connection, between the Irish and the Scottish. In the early Middle Ages, a Scotus was an Irishman, a Gael, and the homeland of the Scoti was Ireland. It was only when an Irish dynasty - Dál Riata of Antrim - gained ascendancy in northern Britain, that it gradually became known as the land of the Scoti and therefore ‘Scotland’ was born. This can all be read in more detail here www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/crowning-of-irelands-last-scottish-high-king/. So it is not surprising that over a period of close to a thousand years the native languages of Scotland (Scots Gaelic) and Irish (Gaeilge) would diverge slightly, albeit only marginally more than a dialectical differencem but certainly not a "radically different language.
ikonikon ikonikon. you need to do some serious research and not that nonsense off wiki. the scots entering scotland from ireland is a mythical tale written by medieval irish monks to give ireland an identity. type in.....leabhar gabhala the study of celtic mythology essay......then, type in....ireland and the celtic culture in search of ancient ireland..... then type in .. . ..ireland in pre-history a concise account...then.type in.....leabhar gabhala/the book of invasions. then type in...book of invasions mythical history of ireland....then type in.....the dna of the irish gael irish origenes......the gauls/galls as they were called. that,s why it,s written as "gallic" in scotland. so, no "gaels" entered scotland from ireland. gaels comes from irish monks.
@@brucecollins4729
ikonikon quotes a scholarly article by a Professor of Medieval History from Trinity College Dublin. Whereas you, a random stream of whatever nonsense enters your head 🙃
@@zipperzoey2041 and where did this scholar professor of medieval history from trinity college dublin get his history.......the mythical book of invasions. the annals of the four masters written in 1640. so, unless your professor was around in 5/600hundred ad he will just be reading from the same mythical books. there are tombs/standing stones in the orkney islands that date to 4000 bc. it,s known as the capital of great britain. it is where these standing stone spread to all over britain and probably ireland. the wite facade on new grange was added in the 1960s. onyhoo, you people "know for a fact" the scotti entered scotland from ireland(nonsense of course) then surely you must know with the same conviction ......from where/when and how did they get to ireland?
Glè mhath! Tapadh leibh!