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- Taigh na Gàidhlig
Mhealanais
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- Chairman:
Angela Mackay
Secretary: Catriona MacLeod
Treasurer: Donald MacLeod
Committee: Joni Young, Robert B MacLeod
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Taigh na Gàidhlig
Mhealanais (the Melness Gaelic centre) is a small voluntary group
established in the heart of the Reay Country (a name sometimes
applied to the lands once held by Lord Reay, chief of the Clan
Mackay) in the early 1980s to foster the Gaelic language and
culture.
Gaelic language
classes and feis-type activities have been a constant theme ever
since, but not the only work carried out by the organisation,
which has no paid staff.
Towards the
end of 2005, the leading expert on Scotland's Gaelic dialects,
Dr James H Grant of Rothiemurchus, began working for the group
on what has turned out to be by far most comprehensive study
of the Mackay dialect of Gaelic ever undertaken, and one of the
most extensive of any dialect in the language.
Ùrachadh,
the latest project from Taigh na Gàidhlig Mhealanais,
brings the culture of the Mackay and Assynt MacLeod homelands
— from the 1600s up to the present day — to a Highland
audience in a manner never attempted before. For this, it has
attracted the services of an exceptionally talented group of
young minstrels from Caithness and Sutherland, and a distinguished
academic with particular expertise in this field.
Contact the
secretary if you are interesting
in finding out more about Taigh na Gàidhlig Mhealanais,
or write to Catriona MacLeod, 25 Strathnaver, KW11 6UA. |