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Duncan Logan Ltd. To Wind Up JHE financial difficulties of arty, the county in which Scotland’s biggest con- Duncan Logan Construction struction company Duncan Ltd. had their headquarters. Logan Construction Ltd., are He said: “ This is a great a sad climax to what have disappointment to me. This proved to be the worst 12 firm have done a great deal for months for /the industry since the Highlands. They had a the Second World War. reputation as being excellent Mr R. W. Campbell, secre- employers, and gave good work- tary of the Scottish National manship. This is very distress- Federation of Building Trades ing news for the North.” Employers, estimates that be- The lirm grew from a work tween 50 and 60 firms have force of only 50 in 1939, to a gone to the wall in the past giant concern employing 1500 year—and about 30 of these people, including 85 engineers have been well-established con- and 50 quantity and bonus sur- The Cairn, at Flora cerns, employing fairly sub- veyors. Their greatest success MacDonadTs birth- stantial work forces. wtfs the Tay Road Bridge con- place in South Uist He gave as the main cause tract. Other notable achieve- — a poignant link of difficulty the shortage of ments are the Fort William with today’s opening cash flow, stemming from the pulp mill, the £4m Nato base of the new £28,000 lack of credit facilities, and at Aultbea, Wester Ross. Information v Centre increasing burdens, such as Due to be completed soon is at Cultoden. Selective Employment Tax. the £500,000 contract for the News of the winding-up of Strathcarron - South Strome the Logan company shocked road. Work on this project was Mr Alasdair Mackenzie, Libe- held up by landslides, requiring ral M.P. for Ross and Crom- (Continued on page 12)

Culloden Information

Centre Opens Today CLUB LEABHAR THE new information centre reception centre and informa- if not impossible, to ensure that 1 built for the National Trust tion point. The cottage is the vastly increased public for Scotland at Culloden will •often too overcrowded for treated the area with respect. be opened today by Dr D. ]. visitors to be able to enter; the It is hoped that it will even- Macdonald, Vice-Convener of true total of those who come to tually be possible to have the NOW the Trusts' Culloden Com- see the battlefield is therefore road which at present runs mittee. unknown, but may well be through the area re-aligned, so AVAILABLE 150,000. as to skirt the battlefield- The project, which includes graveyard, thus conferring on an information and reception The project was only entered it a peace and quietude more hall, and a house for the Trust’s -on after serious consideration in keeping with its history. warden, Mr Neil MacDonald, by all parties concerned. The The new buildings are located was made possible by financial Trust is very conscious that to the east of the car park, well THE SERPENT assistance from the Highlands Culloden is a place of pilgrim- away from the area of the and Islands Development age for visitors to the High- graves. BY Board. lands; and that the battlefield- The design echoes the shapes The total estimated cost was graveyard must be treated with of farm steadings in the Moray NEIL M. GUNN £28,000 towards this the Board reverence, and never allowed Firth area. The scale has been RETAIL PRICE 9/- gave grants totalling £16,000 to become a mere tourist kept as small as possible com- and a loan to cover the balance. “ sight.” The Board, the Trust, parable with the purpose of * ★ ★ The need for new buildings and especially the members of the buildings. The walls are arose from the spectacular in- the Trust’s Culloden Commit- white harled, and the roofs of crease in the number of visitors tee, under the convenership of Scots slate. The Warden’s For details of future publications, etc., write to — to the battlefield-graveyard. Dr J. A. MacLean, have main- cottage is connected with the CLUB LEABHAR Last year the total was 101,927. tained this attitude at ail times. information centre. Its hexago- These figures are the more re- The need for facilities for nal shape and conical roof are Abertarff House markable since they relate only the reception and information derived from the wheelhouses Church Street to those who enter Old Leanach of visitors was underlined by often seen attached to the long Cottage, the small building the fact that if these were not Inverness which till now has served as provided, it would be difficult, (Continued on page 12) TWO SRUTH, Di-ardaoin, 16mh latha de’n Ghiblean 1970 DI-ARDAOIN, I6mh LATHA DEN GHIBLEAN /ruth THURSDAY, 16th APRIL 1970 AIR MO CHASAN-DE1RIDH (Continued from last week) mu buntat’ is sgadain. Tha fhaicinn na lasraichean a tigh- Chaidh mi oidhche gu suipeir feadhainin dhiubh a bruidhinn inn as a bhial mar a thig a bial GOIREASAN SIUBHAIL “ buntata is sgadan.” Mur eil m’ar deidhinn direach mar nach dragon. Cha b’fhada gus an THA doighean siubhail fillte ann am beatha na Gaidheal- fhios agaibh ’sa’ Gaidhealtachd robh fios aig na Goill gu robh robh mi air falbh, maille ri tadhd, aim am beatha na duthcha air fad. Tha astaran gu de a th’ann a leithid ud de plaosgan air buntata idir, ach cuideachd mor daoine, fiach am mora eadar na bailtean le aireamhan mora sluaigh. Cean- dhibhearsean o nach eile agaibh chan eil sin ceart. Is trie a faighinn uisge no rud sam bith gailte ri a tha seo tiia gach comas ceannaich. Tha e an diugh ach biadh Ghlaschu, is dh’ith mise buntat, is sgadan an a smuradh an teas mi-chneasda follaiseach gun gabh baile a mharbhadh gu furasda ma tha e sin seorsa suipeir a chuireas uair a bha mi og, bliadhnachan ud. a dhoigh siubhail air a thoirt bhuaitlhfe. Tha seo a’toirt Gaidheal inam bailtean-mora Air latha araidh, ghabh mi bhuaithe gach ceangail a th’aig ris an t-saoghail a buigih. air chois, bho am gu am, ohi a misneach, is chaidh mi do dh’ Mur a bheil gach ni air fhas agus air a dheanamh anns tha iad cho seach searbh sgith le Uilleam Neill eaglais far an robh seirbhis a’bhaile ilhein chaneil aig na daoine ach basachadh leis le bhi ag itheadh biadh a tha Ghaidhlig Bha mi tuigsinn gle a’ghort. Chan fihaigh iad dotair, chan fhaigh iad sgoil, chan paisgte ’s na pocain polithin; mhath nuair a bha am minis- fhaigh iad biadh. Seoi agad bonn na h-aimhreit a tha ’g gainneamh le seacaid leadair mus d’ thainig e steach air inn- teir a’ searmonachadh gu eirigin mu’n Chomhraich. Ma tha Bealach nam Bo duinte ris an can iad marag-dhubh, tinn na Riaghaltais, gur e sin fuaimneach fileanta, ach an le sneachd no eile, mur a bheil an aiseag ann — chaneil geir bhuidhe gun bhlas ris an biadh math aig am a chogaidh, uair a bha na cinn-teagaisg air roimh na daoine ach fag no faigh am bas. can iad caise, glasruich air an is iad ’gar brosnachadh eisg is an toirt a mach, cha rachadh Tha e gasda a radh, o tsha leithid seo a call airgid. cur slisnean ri itheadh. Chord an agam faighinn a mach gu de an stad air. Thachair sep cheana nuair a thoisich an t-Ollamh tiormachadh cho cruaidh ri t-suipeir ud gle mhath riumsa; Beeching a’ diiineadh na raithdean-iarainn, agus cha do peilearan, agus aran bu cho cha mhor nach d’ith mi clach caibideil ’san earrann’s a robh stad e fhathast. Tlha na meuran caola a’lorg a mach math dhuit itheadh gun am buntat’ is leth-dtisan sgadain. iad. “ Seinnidh sinn a nis o‘n doighean air na cuiltean fhalamhachadh. Feumaidh e paipear a thoirt bhuaith. An Bha na sgadain uamhasach tri-ficheadamh Sailm ’sa coig- daonnan. bhith air beulaibh dhaoine gu bheil da phriorhh deidh an altachadh, air a ghabh- saillte, agus mar sin, cha b’ur- dheug,” agus cha mhor nach rud a'ruith an cois a cheile. Is iad gu bheil an t-sluagh air ail le fior-Ghaidheal ’sa chainmt- rainn dhomh facal a radh ’sa robh an Salm a tighinn gu a bhi ’ga shioladh no na bailtean mora gun taing, gun flhois mhathaireil, dh’fhas a h-uile Bheurla, gun ghuth air a’ crioch mus d’ fhuair mi mo ach ged a tha seo ’s docha an dan dhuinn, tha comhrai- duine ’bha steach gle shamhach, Ghaidhlig. Bha mo sgornan chunntas ceart. Ged a tha sin dhean beaga air am fagail ann an, aitean iomallach. Che is iad trang le buntat’ agus cho tioram, cha’d riim mi dad gie fhurasda do na Gaidheal, fad’s a tha iad ann, ’se phriomh dhleasdanas a th’ann gum sgadain, agus bruadaran mu ach ag ol tea, nuair a thug cuiridh sin bial-sios air a’ faigfh iad a h-uile goireas a tha an cairdean mun ear no laithean an oige, nuair a bha mi greim air bean a’ phoit, Ghaidhlig agams.’ O nach bu mun deas a’faighinn. cothrom aca . air deagh bhiadh agus bha sin gle dhuilich mhath learn an fheadhainn a ’Se an dara rud a tha ann gu bheil crannchur is doigh fhaighinn gun moran airgiod, aig an am ud. Bha mi bha dluth dhomh ’creidsinn beatha nan daoine a’sior dol ait aghaidh an lorg sin ’s an coimeas leis an staid bhochd creidsinn gu bheil an fheadh- nach robh annam ach creutair docha gun gabh doigfhean eile is ceanglaidhean ura a anns a robh iad an drasd, ainn a bha mu’m choinneamh bochd a Poll-nan-Sgroth do thogail eadar na h-aitichean iomallach agus na bailtean cosnadh math aca gun choth- ’san aoin doigh riumsa, o’n a nach b’urrainn leughadh, bha mora. rom aca biadh math fhaighinn dh’fan iad gle shamhach, na mi ’coimhead gu seolta air na An lorg sin fhein, chan urrainn le ceartas, ceartas na ach aig suipeirean buntat’ is suilean aca a’ dearrsadh le bha am fear ’san ath-shuidh- lagha, seartas na cogais, ceangail cunbhaladh bhith air a sgadain. soluis mi-nadurra an teine ’bha eachan a leughadh, agus mar sgaradih ged nsch e ach a’ceangail coig no sia ris a mhor- Tha fiosam gu bheil na loisgeadh gun sguir ’nam sin, chuir mi cqltas duine tuigs- chuid. Gus am bi rathad ceart ann no seirbhis cunbhalach Gaidheal dhe’n bheachd gu broinn. Bha fear ann a sheinn each orm. eile air a steidheachadh cha bu chorr aiseag a’Chomhraich bheil na Goill mor-chuiseach beagan ghleus, bha suil agam Ra leantuinn b'hith air a stad. INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION YEAR EVERYONE has been so busy with the 1970 European Conservation Year, that few have realised that 1970 is EADARAINN FHEIN also International Education Year. It may be a matter of opinion as to which is the more important. Certainly Tha na Gaidheil agus an cul- taobh eile air a ghinidh. Tha Gaidhlig. The rud beag gamh- the increasing pollution of our environment is serious. tuir aca riatanach agus ro- cultur na dutha an crochadh las nan Gall ann fhathast agus But with the problem tackled boldly by our politicians, phriseil do dh’Alba. Tha fios air na daoine. Mur a bi daoine mi-thuigse nan Sasunnach mar the matter should cause no real concern. The problem agam nacheil a mhor-chuid ann cha bhi cultur nas motha. an ce^udna. will, however, become real enough! if Governments do not creidsinn seo ach cha ghabh sin Sin far a bheil an duilliehin. Ach tha barrachd air sin ann wield their powers in the interests of the people they leasachadh chionn ’s gur e an Tha an t-uamhas nar n-aghaidh mar staid’ inntinn no morale serve — or should serve. fhirinn a th’ann. Seo mar a an diugh mar shluagh beag. Tha nan Gaidheal. Sin taobh eile a But education is equally important. Bad education, tha Eireannach a’faicinn na lomnochd na tire agus meud ghinidh, sin brigh na cuise agus or education which is wrongly oriented, will damage a cuise “ In Northern Britain the saoghal na Beurla. Tha na feumaidh sinn aideachadh, society far more than preventable environmental pollution. Gaels made a lasting conquest droch dhileabean a fhuair sinn eadarainn fhein a mhain, gu The results of bad education cannot be eradicated over- and gave Scotland (Alba) a bho’n linne mu dheireadh, bheil e car neonach. Tha an night, nor in a decade, as can pollution. Generations form stamp she has never lost.” Ma linne Fuadach nan Gaidheal, t-am ann nist gun dean sinn the time-span in this case. thigeas latha a chaoidh nach bi linne a bhochdainn dhuibh mi- fhein sgrudadh air a chuis UNESCO lias planned a bold programme of action Gaidheil ann cha mhair Alba nadurra agus di-mholadh na on behalf of education, although we have yet to see any moran nas fhaide. Bithidh chudthromaich seo. mention of this in the Scottish Press. UNESCO has said duthaich ann gun teagamh, this about the revival of Irish in Eire: “It is clearly silly duthaich ris an can iad Alba and ai waste of time to scold the Irish, for instance, for ma dh’fhaoidhte, ach dh’- A CHOMHDAIL reviving their ancient tongue, or the Indonesians for fhaoidhre nach can cuideachd. Chaidh Comhdhail is Coin- ghluin a bha leanabh a togail adopting Bahasa in preference to a European language of Dh’fhaoidhte gum bi ainm ur neamh Bhliadhnail A’ Chom- fior speis dha fhein is dha wide diffusion.” air mar North Britain no uinn a chumail am bliadhna chanan an toiseach agus paran- So far as Gaelic is concerned, the British and the ’san Oban. Bha corr is 80 aig tan a bha diulteadh an canan Scottish public have to be educated or enlightened to the rudeigin snasal computar car a Chomhdhail is 110 aig a dhan chloinn bha iad a faighinn fact that this particular living indigenous European mar North 7. Co dhiubh chan- choinneamh. fior dhi moladh bhuapa nuair langauge is important, not only to the people who speak eil amharus sam bith gur e rud Chaidh tarruing a thoirt air a bha iad a’tighinn gu ire. it in their daily lives, but for the contribution which it as Albannaiche an Albainn an iomadh cuspair aig a chomh- Bhruidhinn D. I. MacLeoid can makd (and is indeed, making, for instance, through the diugh, cultuir nan Gaidheal. dhail gu h-araidh c’aite a bheil mu Innleachdan airson na work of Iain Crichton Smith in particular) to the cultural Chaneil sgath aca, cha mhor, An Comunn a seasamh an diugh Gaidhlig san deachad a tha intellectual and moral interests of mankind. air a Ghalldachd air fhagail an agus de bu choir do mheuran romhainn. Ged a bha cuid nach Anthropology, sociology and the humanities are at diugh dhe’n t-seann frith-chul- A’Chomuinn a bhi deanamh. aontaicheadh ris gach ni a present coming to the fore. Students are increasingly opting tur ach am bias air ! a Dh’aontaicheadh an uiridh gum thubhairt e thug e beachdan for the study of mankind instead of science. Indeed, science Bheurla aca. Na bheil aca a tta bu choir do mheuran A’Chom- ura am follais bu choir do’n a is being asked what contribution, measured in real human eadar-dhealaichte o’n chultur uinn a bhi deasachadh cur h-uile duine aig a bheil uidh terms, has it made in the last few decades. There are signs Shasunnach agus fiachail cuid- seachadan airson luchd turuis ’sa Chanan a chnuasachadh. Bha that a new philosophy is in the embryo stage. It is a eachd, ’s ann bho na Gaidheil agus bha tagradh mu choin- e moladh gu h-araidh gum philosophy which says that each culture Should be allowed, a fhuair iad e. Ach bu sgrathail neamh a’Bhuird Leasachadh biodh buidheann ann mar and, indeed, helped, to develop in its own way, in the same a milleadh a rinn iad air, mar airson cuideachadh airgid duine “ think tank ” Gaidhealach a way that the individual’s personality should develop. as trie. a shuidheachadh a dheanadh so leughadh Paipeirean Ban agus This is the task of education. It would be a pity if Ach chan e an cultur a rAhain agus a chumadh a frithealadh a bheachdaidieadh air cor is this International Education Year were to pass without a tha priseal. Tha “elan” agus mheuran. Fhuaireadh da oraid adhartas nan Gaidheal is something appearing in Scotland to bear evidence that it panache mar an ceudna aig —o an Urr. Gwyndaf Evans muinntir na Gaidhlig. was noticed, even en passant. na Gaidheil, gu h-araid Gaid- as a Chuimrigh agus o’n Dr D. Aig a Choinneamh Bhliadh- And Gaelic ? The policy of the first year of the heil an Ard an lar, nacheil aig I MacLeoid, Oilthigh Ghlas- nail dh’aontaicheadh gum biodh decade of the Seventies for An Comunn should, be the each. Tha na coigrich a bhith- chu. Cha do chuireadh moran cis bhuill mheuran a seasamh launching of a massive programme of education to raise eas a tighinn nar measg faicinn as ur ris an eachdraidh mu’n aig 10/- agus gun suidheach- the level of opinion and regard of the language, which at seo, an fheadhainn aig a bheil Chuimris ach gu robh foghlum adh gach meur de a bhiodh a present is pitifully low. It is to the highest hills we must tuigse is feart co dhiubh, agus na phriomh aobhar air canan a dhith orra a thuilleadh air an ever lift our eyes. tha e cordadh riutha. Ach tha thoirt air adhart. ’S ann aig a sin. SRUTH, Di-ardaoin, 16mh latha de n Ghiblean 1970 THREE Legal Aid in the Changes In Areas of Contact and Land Court In reply to a parliamentary Conflict between Lapps Crofters Grants question oddressed to him by Mr Buchanan, MP, the Sec- INCREASES in a wide range gested -that if assistance was retary of State for Scotland, and Norwegians of grants for crofters are given by increasing the has announced that he hopes announced by the Crofters guaranteed prices it should to make an Order shortly ex- Commission. be borne in mind that the tending legal aid to proceed- "pHE Lapps have never lived gan: “forst folk og siden The Commission also an- method of calculating de- ings before the Scottish Land as a completely isolated finna” (first people and then nounces a special measure of ficiency payments gave a Court. group: in historic times they Lapps) and showed open ad- assistance for the recon- lower return per unit of out- Commenting on this Mr D. intermarried with the Finns, miration for the Lapps’ re- ditioning of regenerated areas put to crofters and other J. MacCuish, Secretary and and their descendants, known sistance to the Germans and of heath land and rough producers in remote areas to Solicitor to the Crofters Com- as Kvens, are now indis- their willingness and ability grazings which are more than those more favourably placed mission said, “This announce- tinguishable from the Lapps, to smuggle' people into the 5 years old. in relation to markets. ment brings to a successful Their seclusion on the fringe neighbouring neutral coun- These changes will apply “We are also aware” the conclusion a lengthy campaign of the inhabited world ended tries. Unfortunately, at the to offers of grant made and chairman said, “that there to secure for crofters the finally in the sixteenth cen- end of the war, Lapps and applications received during are crofting areas ,like Harris, benefits of legal aid by extend- tury when the Stroganoff Norwegians returned to their the 2 years commencing 19th Assent and Barra which ing the provisions of the Legal family set up in Finmark an separate lives, March 1970. They are in line cannot benefit to any sub- Aid Scheme to the Land outpost on the trade route The economic and social with Government policy for stantial extent from the Com- Court. As long ago as 1965, from Western Europe to pressure on the Lapps to an immediate injection of mission’s agricultural grants the Commision in their An- capital into agriculture as because of the difficult nual Report remarked on the set out in the Review White physical conditions. It so reluctance of crofters to refer (THE SECOND ARTICLE BY JANET MACKENZIE Paper. happens, however, that these to the Land Court questions The Commission has issued are the most sCenically at- on which the Court’s ruling China. Under their protec- abandon their “strange” cus- an appeal to crofters to move tractive areas and we are was desirable. They attributed tion a Russian monk founded toms and “primitive tradi- quickly and to take the convinced that if there were this to the expense of em- a monastery on the Kola tions,” to learn Norwegian advantage of the opportunity a scheme of non-agricultural ploying a solicitor, particular- peninsula in 1527, thus for- and speak it to their children of ploughing additional capi- grants for crofters in these ly in remote areas where the ming the Lapps’ first contact so that they should have a tal into their holdings. areas we would see develop- expense may be consider- with organised Christianity. better chance in life, has led Changes have also been ments in tourism and in ably increased by the fact to an impoverishment of made in the grant for crop- other ways even more that there is no local solicitor Contact with the Nor- their culture and language ping of marginal land. Hol- dramatic than the crofters available. The extension of wegians came later, particu- and a deep feeling of rootless- dings on marginal land are achievement in reclaiming legal aid to crofters was the larly during the last two ness and homelessness among divided into 3 classes accor- more than 50 square miles of subject of aunanimous resol- centuries. In 1861, the dio- the younger generation. Hun- ding to quality of land and difficult hill land. ution passed at the 1967 cesan newspaper in Tromso dreds have submerged their geographical location. The “Unfortunately the Com- Annual Conference of Com- wrote that it was in the identity in the anonymity of present rates for tillage crops mission — and more im- mission Assessors. The Fed- interest of the state to en- large towns, have refused to are £11, £8 and £5 per acre portantly the crofters — are eration of Crofters Unions courage the settlement of acknowledge that they were respectively. These rates will held back from this develop- took a leading part in advoc- uncultivated land in Finmark, Lapps, and have denigrated continue unchanged but the ment because the opportuni- ating extension of the Scheme even if, in doing so, the their parents’ way of life, rates for grass conserved for ties now opening up in the and a number of public bodies government had to rid itself out of a desperate need to hay or silagle, rape and crops Highlands were not foreseen including Lewis and Inverness of the feeling that it was belong somewhere, as it has sown broadcast have been in 1955 or even in 1961 when District Councils and Inver- acting unjustly towards a become difficult for an edu- increased. the Crofters Acts were ness Church of Scotland Pres- “semi-barbaric and nomadic cated person to admit to The assistance for recon- passed, and the Commission’s bytery, gave their support. race.” Land was leased only being a Lapp. On the other ditioning the older pasture financial powers are restric- The Secretary of State's to people who could speak, hand, many nomadic parents improvement schemes will be ted to the support of agn- statement will be received read and write Norwegian. have resisted sending their at the rate of £4 per acre to- cutlure. with considerable satisfaction This excluded those who had children to school where they wards an expenditure of not “There is a real danger by crofters and all who have used the land as reindeer would undergo a process of lesfc than £6 10s per acre that the indigenous crofting their interests at heart. Some pasture for centuries and “Norwegianisation” and re- after fertiliser and other population may lose the op- time will no doubt elapse be- still rankles in the minds of turn completely unfitted to subsidies have been deducted. portunity of sharing to the fore the necessary arrange- Lapps today, especially as follow their parents’ way of The Commission must also extent they should in the ments can be made to operate sixty-eight years later the life. be satisfied that the area in tourist development now the scheme in the Land Court policy is still in force and The fear underlying the question will give a satis- taking place. This is a matter but the great thing for crof- compels many Lapps to leave lives of many older Lapps is factory response to such which is causing the Com- ters is that the long wait for the nomadic life for lack of that the Lapps as a people treatment and that the opera- mission continual anxiety but acceptance of the principle of land for grazing. will disappear without trace. tion is likely to be beneficial, tihe remedy does,; not lie in legal aid in the Land Court The Finmark Lapps were Government policy, espec- having regard to the appli- our hands.” is now ended”. brought into contact with iallv in education, and the cant’s general state of hus- modern technology during lack of interest of the Nor- bandry. Any other necessary the wartime German occupa- wegian majority, are hasten- remedial measures required tion, when new roads opened ing the process of complete sudh a drainige and the con- up communications with the assimilation. Norway can trol of rushes must be under- outside world. At this time afford the magnaminity of taken at the same time but Recognition for Scots Banknotes too, contact and co-operation allowing a small people to these additional activities will between Lapps arid Nor- live on unharrassed; it wiTl of course qualify for the A move for the recognition as legal tender in the whole of wegians increased, united as be an indication of her appropriate grant. of Scottish bank-notes as legal the U.K.” they were against a common maturity as a nation if the Occupiers of holdings other tender throughout the United He said: “ The right to enemy. For the first time Lapps are allowed to retain than crofts w(ho are pre- Kingdom is to be made by the issue bank-notes in Scotland is Norwegians rejected the slo- their individuality. sently eligible for grant as- Convention of Royal Burghs. now restricted to four establish- sistance for reconditioning The “ embarrassment and ments, the Bank of Scotland, regenerated areas and the annoyance ” caused by their the British Linen Bank and the improved rates of existing non-recognition was described Clydesdale Bank, so that the grants. at the convention’s annual GAELIC SUMMER SCHOOLS Crofters would also bene- meeting in Edinburgh yester- change asked for in the law 6th - 18th JULY 1970 fit from awards under the day, when the agreed unani- would be comparatively simple , Annual Review determina- mously to call on the Govern- has been denied for many A school for LEARNERS of Gaelic will be held for tions. ment to consider amending the and would give to the Scottish two weeks from 6th to 18th July. The improvement in the Currency and Bank Notes Act, bank-note that desired recogni- Cost for fortnight, -including twin and three-bedded subsidy for lime and fertili- 1928, so that notes issued by tion and legal status which it accommodation, meals and tuition, £27. sers particularly should ease Scottish banks would by law be has been denied for manly the difficulties facing crofters accepted by any creditor in the years.” in the remoter areas. U.K. in payment of any debt. The change was sought “ for Music School Prior to the Price Review Councillor James Rayne, the convenience and oeace of 13th - 18th JULY the Commission made strong Buckhaven and Methil, said the mind of those who are custom- The programme will cover the range and development representations for an in- motion was proposed simply to arily paid in and use Scottish of Gaelic music. crease in the subsidies of bring to the notice of the ap- notes but who find, to their Cost, including accommodation and meals. £11 10s. lime and fertilisers and also propriate authorities “ the con- surprise and annoyance, that For both schools the charge for non-resident students the need for general assist- siderable inconvenience, em- what is good in Scotland is will be 15/- per day. ance for the hill sheep and barrassment and annoyance viewed with some suspicion and Application forms from The Director, An Comunn Mil cattle industries. In the caused by the fact that Scottish distrust in other parts of the Gaidhealach, Abertarff House, Church Street, Inverness. latter connection they sug- bank-notes are not recognised U.K.” FOUR SRUTH, Di-ardaoin, 16mh latha de’n Ghiblean 1970

OIGHRICHD Bha fhios aig Oighriichd gu dhuilich air Padraig bochd. Bha Celtica - today robh i marbh mus fhaca i na le Iain MacLeoid Una a’suathadh a suilean le h-ainglean. Bha 1 coimhead sios neapaicin. air a corp fhein agus an dotair licheadh foidhpe. An uair a bha “ Huh! ” ars Oighrichd rithe A look at ALBA . BREIZH . CYMRU . EIRE is Ruairidh, an duine aice, agus i deiseil chrom i agus phog i fhein. “ ’S beag a tha e cur air KERNOW . MANNIN Murchadh, brathair Ruairidh, mala corp Oighrichd mus do an te ud. Gheibh i cead fhein timcheall air. Bha Ruairidh dh’fhalbh i. air gnothaichean a riaghladh a’caoineadh agus lamh Mhur- Cha robh duine anns an rum anns a’bhaile nise, ’s gun *isi by P. BERRESFORD ELLIS chaidh air a ghualainn. Cha a nise cuide ris a’chorp. Nach e ann airson stad a chur oirre.” robh an t-eagal oirre idir. Bha h-aodann a bha coimhead Bha an rum falamh a rithist an leum a thug i o bheatha gu biorach agus geal. Rinn i gaire agus car an dotair a’falbh. A Spanish newspaper has to keep their brother Celts in bas ooltach ris an leum a thug rithe fhein. Nach ann biorach Cinnteach gun tug e rud-eigin announced a Celtic music fes- order for the English. i anns an uisge aon uair an a bha a sron riamh agus nach do Ruairidh. tival with prizes for the 20 best With such zeal did the unfor- uair a bha i ag ionnsachadh trie a thilg Iain, a brathair, sin Thainig Ruairidh a stigh songs. The festival will be held tunate, misguided Scots do theit snamh. Bha eagal oirre mus do oirre an uair a bha iad beag dha’n rum leis fhein. Shuidh e a; Orense on Tune 25 and 26 job that their conduct has leum i ach, aon uair’s gun do agus ise ag innsearachd air anns an t-seathar ri taobh na and the first prize will be created a storm ot protest. 7'he leum i, cha robh eagal oirre fhein agus na gillean eile ’n leapa, leig e cheann an taice ri 120,000 pesetas (£750). Now regiment has had to be with- idir. ’S ann a bha i faireachadh uair nach leigeadh iad leatha lamhan agus a ghuaillean looking at it as Celts, this is a drawn. faoehadh agus sith. Chuimhnich cluich comhla riutha. a’crathadh leis a’chaoineadh. great thing. An international It is, indeed, a sad facet of i air a’phian. Bha smuain fhein “ Cum do shron bhiorach a Cha robh duine ’ga fhaichinn a song contest with prizes of such our history that the Celts have goirt. ’S e sin a b’aobhar gu mach as na gnothaichean nise. Ruairidh bochd. Bha e value as to attract song writers always made the best imperial robh i faireachadh a leithid a againne.” mar gu robh a broilleach to start writing in their native troops for the English or French dh’fhaochadh. Is iomadh gibht a thug e sgaineadh le gaol dha. language and not, as the Irish imperial interest. Even when “ Tha' i aig fois a nise,” dhachajdh dhi o na duthchan- “ Tha an t-am againn a tend to do in the Eurovision the Connaught Rangers (the chuala i Murchadh ag radh. nan thall thairis an uair a bhith falbh,” ars an t-aingeal Song Contest, to “ Englishise ” Irish regiment which was An uair sin thug i an aire chaidh e gun muir agus anns beag. their songs. stationed in India) decided ro dha na h-ainglean. Bha fear an litir mu dheireadh a fhuair “ Leig leatha mionaid no But wait, there is another lay down their arms in 1920 in mor ban ann agus fear beag i mus deach a bhathadh bha e dha,” ars am fear ban. facet which must be considered. protest at the English artocities dorcha. Bha coltas fhior lagh- bruidhinn air na deasan ris am Chuimhnich i cho crosda Castilian Spain under its in Ireland they added they ach air an fhear mhor agus bitheadh iad an uair a bha iad bha i ri Ruairidh an latha present Facist dictatorship is were willing to keep down the hamh a’ghaire air. og. Thainig an t-aon ghoirteas dhoirt e an cupa tea air cuibh- currently suppressins the human Indians (struggling for their “ Bheil sibh ’gam fheith- ’na broilleach a dh’fhairich- rig na, leap?.. rights of the Basque, Galician freedom) until they were re- eamh?” ars ise. eadh e a h-uile turus a smaoini- “ O, seal! de rinn thu,” and Catalan nations who exist, placed. “ Tha,” ars esan, “ ach cheadh i air Iain. Ach is ann thuirt i. “ Bha thu cliopach similarly to the Celts, as con- This illogicality, the lack cf gabhaibh ur tide. Chan eil cus a thainig e stigh oirre, “ Car- riamh.” quered helots of Franco’s vision, has always been a curse cabhaig oirnne.” son a tha mi mar seo a nis. “ Bha am pian ’gam dhean- empire. to the Celtic peoples. This has, Thug am fear beag suil air Docha gil faic mi a dh’aith- amh (crosda,” ars ise rithe fhein. In fact, the Celtic peoples unfortunately, made the Celt uaireadair. ghearr e.” ’s i caoineadh. “Ach bha mi enjoy far more liberty to ex- the best subject for England’s “ Fhad’s nach bi sibh ro Bha na nabaidhean a’tigh'nn crosda riut riamh.” press their dissatisfactioon with divide et impera policy. fhada,” ars esan. a stigh a nise agus Ruairidh “ Tha mi duilich, duilich, a English imperialism than do Alba gu brath; an saorsa! Bha ooltas icaran crosda air- a’bruidhinn riutha cbo doig- ghaoil,” ars ise a’sineadh a these three Iberian nations who, Scotland for ever; in freedom! son. Bha e cuimhneachadh dhi heil, a’ fiachainn ri cumail air mach a lamh gu a ghualainn. for years, have been victims of That is the modem slogan that eildear a b’abhaist a bhith aca. agus gnothaichean a riaghladh “ Cuiridh tu eagal air,” ars an the evils of Castilian imperial- reflects the Declaration of Ar- Cha robh i ’g iarraidh falbh mar a dh’iarr i air. Bha a cridhe t-aingeal ban. ism. broath illustrated on the new fhathast. Bha iomadach latha o goirt le gaol dha agus i Chuimhnich air an t-eagal a Would it not be hypocritical 5d postage stamp. It is perhaps nach robh uibhir a shaorsainn smaoineachadh cho troimhe bha air Ruairidh riamh a dhol of the Celtic peoples to accept rather strange that the General aice coimhead timcheall oirre cheile ’s a bhitheadh an tigh as a mach leis fhein air an oidhche the interest of the Spanish in Post Office should issue a leis a’phian, agus bha i ’g a h-aonais. agus mar a dh’fheumadh promoting Celtic culture with- stamp to commemorate a decla- iarraidh Ruairidh fhaicinn turns Bha Mairead Bheag an ath cuideigin a dhol comhla ris out some form of protest at the ration which reads: eile. dhorus agus i caoineadh gu agus tharraing i a lamh air ais. current persecution of these “. . . So long as a hundred of Bha. an nurs a stigh a nise, goirt agus Tormod, a fear, agus “ Feumaidh sinn falbh,” ars Iberian nationalities? us remain alive, we shall never agus i cur a’chuirp air doigh na deoir ’na shuilean, Alasdair an t-aingeal beag. We all know of Spain’s feud under any conditions submit to le a lamhan beaga comasach Chaluim agus aodann air Thionnda'idh i airson seali- with England. Is there, perhaps, English domination. It is not dearga. Eilidh Sheumais. Bu tocadh leis an deoch ag radh tainn air Ruairidh aon uair eile. some political motive behind for glory or riches or honour thoigh le Oighrichd riamh i. ann an guth briste. “ Na gabh uibhir a dhragh, a this support of the Celtic cul- that we fight but for liberty Bhitheadh i an comhnaidh fair- “ ’S iomadh dinnear mhath thasgaidh,” ars ise. tures? which no good man gives up eachadh nas fhearr airson a thug i dhomhsa.” Thog e a cheann mar gun In “Celtica Today” (Octo- except with his life.” greiseag an deaghaidh do dh’- An uair sin thainig Una cuala e i agus an uair sin ber 25, 1969) I reported that But then it would, unfortu- Eilidh tighinn agus a nighe Sheorais agus Padraig, an duine thoisich e air caoineadh a the Glendermott and Ardmore nately, seem that few people agus na cluasagan aice a chais- aice, a stigh. Bha coltas gle rithist. Young Unionists were calling feel anything for this declara- for a Scots Regiment to be sent tion. Today it would seem that to North East Ulster. The Lon- the declaration is regarded as don Branch of the League of empty words, a piece of paper Celtic Nations condemned the to go with the wearing of the Si ’Ghrain A’Chailleach A Dh’Fhag Mise idea of utilising Celt to put kilt, the pipes and haggis. Sym- down brother Celt for Eng- bols by which the English fhein ach a’bhru a ch’ort. Cha land’s centuries old divide and imperialist ruling class sneer at Nam Amadam Gorach do thog thu spaid riamh. rule imperialist policy. their Scottish neighbours. “ Oh, nach tu ’ghrain, bhurraidh mhor a tha thu “ S beag feum thusa mar Alas, I warned this would A reminder that the Urdd a’chaillich! ” arm.” bhean. Nuair tha mi lorg iein happen. Even John MacLean’c Gobaith Cymru will be holding “ De tha cearr ort a nis? Tha “ S arm agadsa a tha am beul ghlan, tha i cheart cho salach warning (Vanguard, August, their Inter Celtic Camp at thu ‘glamhadh mar gum bith- farsaing ’s chan ann'agamsa.” ’s a bha i riamh. Chaneil thu 1920) about the policy of keep- Llandovery College, Llanymd- eadh cu.” “ De am beul farsaing, ’s glanadh ach an collair.” ing the Celtic Scots and Irish dyfri, Carmarthen, during the “ Chuir thu cearr mi.” tusa a ’ dh’innis do chailich “ Ma tha ’s ann tha thusa at each others throats was used. week July 25-August 1. “ Cha do chuir.” a’chithe de thubhairt mi ma cho salach. Cha ghabh an corr We all know that the very Applications and details can “ Chuir. Seall, a mhic ud, deidhinn.” dhith glanadh.” thing “ Celtica Today ” warned be obtained from Mrs Delyth thug orm snathad a chuir ’nam “Well, ma ta ionnsaichidh “ Chan e nach gabh i glanadh against happened. The Royal Lewis, Swyddfa’r Urdd, Aber- chorraig.” sin duit a bhith cabaireachd ’s ach nach eil an uine agadsa— Scots Regiment were sent out ystwyth, Sir Aberteifi, Cymru. “ “ Cha tug, a chaillich, is a’ seanachas muin a h-uile chaneil no an comas. Chaneil tu fhein a chuir ’nad chorraig duine.” thu ach a falbh air cheilidh an e.” “ Tha mi coma. Nach robh siud ’san sgo a’cumail daoine “A bhodaich ghrannda, dh’- ise a’call a cuid uisge co eile air ais.” fheumadh freagairt a bhith dhiubh feuch de bh’agam ri ’S beag feum dhuitsa bhith Harris Tweed Shop agad-sa, co dhiubh.” radh? ” bruidhinn. Se cunntair a’bhar “ De thubhairt thu? ” “An robh is de thubhairt i?” tha cumail do chudthrom thar (C & j. Morrison) “ Gha tubhairt cail.” “ Oh, thoisich i bruidhinn air do chasan. Mur a b’e gu bheil “ Bi samhach, ma tha.” rudeigin ’s an ath rud bha thu sabhaladh do neart an sin Buth a Chlo Hearrach “ Cha bhith.” ceist aice orm de thubhairt mi. cha toireadh do ichasan dhach- Stocainnean . Tweed Slippers “ Bithidh tu samhach ma Oinsich, tha thusa cho dona aidh thu. dh’iarras mis’ ort, a chaillich rithe fhein.” “ Oh tha mise toirt mo Tweed Deerstalkers . Hose and Working Socks tha thu ann.” “ S tusa a tha math air an chasan learn, chaneil annad ach TARBERT, HARRIS “ Cha bhij'V duin do chab a t-seanachas a bhurraidh. Seall a’ghrain a’ chaillich,. ” SRUTH, Di-ardaoin, 16mh latha de'n Ghiblean 1970 FIVE

Highland Fund Loaned £58,703 IRISH DECIMAL COINS The Irish Government have fore being used as the obverse does not call for complacency decided to issue six decimal design of each of the new coins and the Highland Fund Coun- Last Year cil appeal to all interested in coins. There will be three and the reverse designs of three encouraging the fund’s work cupro-nicel (‘ silver ’) cints, for of the present coins are being to support them by bequests 50 new pence, 10 new pence used for the new cupro-nickel The Highland Fund last applicants has dwindled to gifts and interest-free loans. and 5 new pence, and three decimal coins. The woodcock year paid and authorised £5,787. However, monthly The county of Argyll re- bronze (‘ copper ’; coins in the design formerly used for the loans totalling £58,703—a fig- repayments from borrowers ceived £12,080 last year — denominations 2 new pence, 1 Jd coin, which has been out of ure only once exceeded in average £3,000 a month. If the largest application by new penny and % new penny. circulation for some years, has the 15-year history of the the normal pattern of applic- residents there so far and in In order to facilitate the in- been adopted for the reverse of fund. This is stated in the ations continues it is expect- the year under review, the troduction of the new system the 50 new penny coin (value fund’s annual report to be ed that the low level of funds highest amount paid in one i: was decided to retain the 10/-). The salmon and bull are presented in Edinburgh next will be replenished during the county. Assistance was given week. There were also loans first quarter ofthis year. for stocking farms and crofts, authorised but unpaid a tthe The report says that this to a fish farm, the develop- end of the year amounting to ment of a Highland shop and £12,150. Skye came second with The report states that only NEW HOSTEL FOR £10,120, chiefly for stock and in 1962, when the fund were fishing boats. assisting large projects like TORRIDON The report says that it is the Outer Hebridean Fishing A new youth hostel providing promising that Skye should Scheme, the Brora Colliery now be participating more in and Sutherland Bricks, Ltd., sleeping accommodation for fishing, particular- has the year’s total of loans eighty people is to be built by ly shell fishing. It would be been exceeded. the Scottish Youth Hostels of increasing benefit to the As a result of the year’s Association at Torridon, one of Skye economy if a processing activities and the pressure on the most spectacular scenic areas unit could be set up on the the fund’s resources, the year- of Wester Ross. island, says the report. This ly accumulated total of loans Total cost of the project is might not be practicable be- invested in projects from the estimated at £55,000 and it is cause of the transport prob- Herbert Ross Fund reached being backed by substantial lem, but it was worth invest- £131,396 out of a total of grant aid from the Highlands igating. £137,029. There are reserves and Islands Development Loans for agricultural pro- present coinage designs so far obvious choices for the 10 new such as the Accumulated Board. jects are again the main item as possible. The harp is there- penny and 5 new penny coins, Fund, bequests and interest- The hostel will be dedicated stocking, tractors and imple- respectively, as these are free loans but against these to the late John J. Calder of ments and the assignation or identical in size and value with must be put £12,150 of auth- Braemore, near Ullapool, who in the fund’s work. Loans for the present 2/- and 1/- coins. orised but unpaid loans, the some years ago gifted Corrie- purchase of farms reached a report says. shalloch Gorge to the nation new record, amounting to As none of the bronze deci- Consequently, the amount and made a substantial endow- more than half the total of mal coins will correspond in of available capital for new ment to the Association for the loans. size and value with any present purpose of providing improved The council believe that it coin, there would be risk of hostel accommodation in the is as important to conserve confusion of values if existing HOLIDAY BROCHURE Torridon Area. the small farmer and crofter reverse designs were used for FOR APPLECROSS Mr J. R. Wood, general sec- as it is to conserve the them. New designs were there- The crofters of Applecross retary and accountant of the countryside. More than fore commissioned from a dis- have taken the initiative in S.Y.H.A., said recendy that for £246,000 of the total loaned tinguished Irish artist. Miss trying to attract a special type many years the Association had since the fund’s inception Gabriel Hayes. They are based of visitor to the Highlands— had a lease on a simple Torri- has been given to crofters on ornamental details from those who want to see the don croft which had suffered and small farmers. Irish art illuminations contained crofting townships from the from overcrowding. in old manuscripts. inside instead of through the “ This is quite out of line windows of a speeding coach. with modem requirements. HIGHLANDS COUNCIL The new halfpenny (ip) is “ We welcome visitors,” they Young people are used to much RESOLUTIONS FOR an adaptation of am ornamental say in a colourful holiday better housing, better schools, S.N.P. CONFERENCE bird detail from an illumination brochure prepared for them by expensive outdoor pursuits The Highlands Area Coun- in a manuscript in the Cathe- the Crofters Commission. centres and we must improve cil of the Scottish National dray Library, Cologne. The leaflet has been com- substantially on the hostel ac- Party is presenting two Resolu- The new penny (Ip) is an piled from information provided commodation available in Tor- tions to the Party’s Annual adaptation of an ornamental by the Applecross crofters and ridon. We are certain that this Conference in Edinburgh next bird detail from an illumination it is issued by the Crofters new hostel, sited in a key May. in the Book of Kells in Trinity Commission in consultation position, will play an important The Council is moving that College, Dublin. with the Wester Ross Tourist role in attracting young people “ the whole provision of further The two new pence (2p) is Organisation Council and the to Wester Ross.” and higher education in the an adaptation of an ornamental National Trust for Scotland. The new hostel, he added, Highlands and Islands be the bird detail from an illumination With the leaflet is a list of would be the third high stand- sole function of a special integ- iu the Second Bible of Charles- accommodation, houses and ard, purpose-built hostel to be rating body, with National the-Bald in the Bibliotheque caravans to let, boat trips and provided by the Association in funds at its disposal, which Natiomale, Paris. boats for hire. the past few years. body, having reference to the specific and general develop- ment requirements of the region, will promote these further education and higher education facilities, including a University Galway To Aran Air Link of Inverness.” MACIVER The Council’s second Resolu- Two wonderful advantages seater plane. It will also be tion “ urges that the Highlands are immediately obvious in the possible for the planes to fly to and and Islands Development Board plan to provide an air service Castlebar and Shannon. give serious consideration to the between the Aran Islands and To make the service pay it DART long-term effects of large-scale the Galway mainland. It is will be necessary to run four or Radio and Television Dealers industrialisation in the region estimated that about 12,000 five round trips each day. for which it is statutorily re- tourists will use the service each However, in winter months sponsible, in view of the social year, fiving them splendid op- there would probably be only weaknesses evident in existing portunities to explore the vast two or three a week. industrial vacuua at Fort potential of the islands. Bulldozers are clearing the All Current Gaelic Records in Stock William, Kinlochleven, Inver- As well, the terrible isolation ground for two grass strips near gorden and Thurso; and that which in stormy times cuts off Kilronan on Innishmore, the the Board be instructed by the the islanders and leads to seri- largest of the three islands. Secretary of State for Scotland ous problems in caring for the The strips may be ready for to concentrate its resources of sick, will be lessened. use next month. 16 CROMWELL STREET, STORNOWAY finance and personnel on the Five Galway businessmen Of course, the strip will have build-up of smaller industrial have formed the company which to be fully approved by the Telephone Stornoway 290 units throughout the Highlands plans to operate a passenger Department of Industry and as a matter of extreme ur- and freight service all the year Commerce before it can be gency.” round, using a six to eight- used. SIX SRUTH, Di-ardaoin, 16mh latha de’n Ghiblean 1970

AG IONNSACHADH NA LE IAIN A. MA CDHOMHN AILL Sine : C’ait’ am bi e mata? LEASAN A SI A Where will he be then? Mairi: IsNach that e notsiud hee aspeaking bruidhinn. Pamphlets ri Mairi aig Seoras? published by Siine : Isto eGeorge’s gu dearbh. Mary? An Comunn Gaidhealach Tiugainn a null. Who are the Highlanders? . 6d Mairi: ComeChaneil along math over. dhuinn. ModernThe Highland Gaelic Way Verse of Life. . . M9d We had better not. Crofting 9d Sine : ComaNever mind.leat, TiugainnYou come thusa. along. HighlandGaelic Proverbs Whisky ...... 1/69d Mairi: Cha leig thu leas. Highland Homes . . . . 1/- ThaYou Mairineedn’t a’ botherfalbh. TheHam's Highlands Tweed Prehistory . 11/-/- Mary is going. Highland Communications . 1/6 Sine : HighCall onair MurdoMurchadh then. mata. GaelicPictish isArt 16/-d Mairi: A Mhurchaidh. A Murchaidh. Close-Up on Peat... . 6d Sine : ChaMurdo. chuala Murdo. e idir thu. AluminiumA Key to Highlandin the Highlands Place . 6d Mairi: HeChuala didn’t e. hearIs e ayou chuala. at all. The StjryNames of Tartan . 1/. NacheilHe did. itc a’is hefeitheamh who did ruinn?hear me. The IndustrialClarsach Highlands . . 66dd Sine : IsIsn’t math he sin.waiting Tha formi us?a’ fits sgith. Postage extra That is good. I am getting tired Order from ThaI arn mi sure cinnteach it is oue gu o’clock bherl enow. uair a nise. Abertarff House, Inverness. Mairi: Isn’tNacheil it fivee coig minutes mionaidean past one. an deidh uair. Sine : AIs itbheii indeed? gu dearbh? Ifha hope mi thatan dochasMuido nacheilis not cabhag an cruinne air Murchadh. ThaMary cabhag and Jean air Mairiare in agusa hurry air , in a hurry. Ma tha Gaidhlig agad Sine a’ coiseachd suas an rathad. Mairi: ChaHe wasrobh not cabhag in a hurryair an uair Nochd e, ’s cleachd do walking up the road. a bha e a’ bruidhinn ri Mairi do dhiubh. chanan. TheyTha iadthink a’ smaoineachadhthat Murdo will gum be hi When hg was speaking to Mary anyway. Murchadh a’ feitheamh riutha. Sine : AchBut wheresaoil c’ait’do youa bheil think Seonaid? Janet is? are waiting tor them. Mairi: Is mi tha coma. Sine : Greas ort a Mhairi. I don’t care. YOU Hurry up Mary. SheChaneil is not i a’going dol dhachaidhhome along comhla fluent in Gaelic ? Mairi: DoA bheilyou thinkrhu a’that smaoineachadh withruinne us coanyway. dhuibh. learning Gaelic ? gumMurdo hi witlMurchadh be waiting a’ feitheamh for us? ruinn. Sine : NaDon’t bi becho socinnteach. cure. interested in Gaelic ? Sine : Tha mi cinnteach gum hi Nach i a tha anns a’ char aig Murchadh? INacheil am sure e thatgu bhithhe will. uair? Mairi: Seonaid.Is she not Tha in fhiosMudro’s nach car? i. JOIN Isn’t it nearly one o’clock? Janet. Surely not. Mairi: YesTha indeed.gu dearbh. Sine : IsIt iis ashe tha who ann isgun in teagamh.it without a doubt. AN CRUINNE Stad ort. Mairi: Nach robh M6r ag radh nach Sine : CoWait air a aminute. tha thu a’ coimhead? robhWasn’t i a’Marion dol dhachaidh saying that gu she feasgar? Badges and Membership What are you looking at? was not going home till the evening? Forms from An Cruinne, Main: ITha am milooking a’ coimhead at this airshop. a’ bhiith seo. Sine : Bha.Yes. AohBut itis isi thashe siudwho gunis there teagamh. without a doubt. Abertarff House, Inverness Sine : DeWhat tha do dhith you ort?want? Mairi: NaDo notinnis tell c’&it where an robhwe were. sinn. Mairi : ThaBread aran and aguscheese. caise. SheBithidh will i bea’ askingfoighneachd what wede cheannaichbought. sinn. AreA bheil you thuwanting ag iarraidh anything? dad? Sine : NaDon’t innis tell dhithher whatde a youcheannaich bought. thu Sru+h Sine : Chaneil.No. Mairi: WhatSaoil dode youa cheannaich think she herselfi fhlin? bought? Scotland’s Bha mi a’ fuinne an raoir. bi-lingual newspaper Main: IBha was agus baking mise last ach night.is toigh Read this passage and answer the questions which follow it. published fortnightly leSo Alasdairwas I, but an-t-aran Alexander seo. Bha cabhag air Sine agus air Mairi oir bha iad a smaoinea- by likes this bread. mionaideanchadh gun anrobh deidh Murchadh uair ach bhaa’ feitheamhiad an dochas riutha. nach robhBha cabhage coig An Comunn Gaidhealach Sine : NaDon’t bi befada long mata. then. air Murchadh. Chunnaic Maitri aran an am buth agus cheannaich Mairi: Cha bhi mi da mhionaid. inaich aran Sinegeal acharan cha idir. do Bha!cheannaich Sine a’ i fuinnearan milis an raoiridir. Chaagus do is chean- fe&rr Sine : GreasI won’t ort be mata. two minutes. leithe na bonnaich aice fhein na ant- aran a tha anns na buthan. Order from your local newsagent Hurry up then. An uair a bha iad a’ coiseachd suas an rathad chunnaic iad an or by Subscription to Mairi: Cha bhi mi fada. rickr Mairi aig Murchadh aig Seoras aig ach Oifis co a’bha Phuist. anns Bhaa’ ch&r Murchadh aig Murchadh a’ hruidhinn ach The General Editor, Sine : AI won’tbheil thube long.deiseil? Sebnaid. Cha robh Sine na Mairi toilichte an uair a chunnaic iad 92 Academy Street, Are you ready? robhSednaid Seonaid anns a’a’ char dol aigdhachaidh Murchadh. gu Bhafeasgar. iad a’ smaomeachadh nach Inverness. DidAn doyou cheannaich buy bread? thu aran? Mairi: Cheannaich mi aran geal. 2.1. DeCarson oheannaich a bha cabhaigMain anns air Sinea’ bhiith? agus air Mairi? Sine : AnI bought do cheannaich white bread. thu aran milis? 3. An do cheannaich Sine dad? Did you buy sweet bread? 5.4. CoC’&it’ chunnaic am faca iad iad anns Muichadh? a’ char aig Murchadh? Mairi: ChaNo. do cheannaich. Wame .. Cha toigh leinne aran milis idir. GRAMMAR We don’t like sweet bread at all. The Regular Verb Address Sine : ChaNeither toigh do naI. learn. Past Tense Sine : Is fe&rr learn na bonnaich agam fhein. Affirmative: Cheannaich mi, I bought. I prefer my own bannocks. Negative: Cha do cheannaich mi. Mairi: Nach e siud an car aig Murchadh? Question: An do cheannaich thu? ! enclose P.O./M.O./Cheque for Sine : IsIs ethat gu notdearbh. Murdo’s car? : Cheannai^h, yes. for quarter/half-year/one It is indeed. : ChaD6 cheannaich do cheannaich. thu? noWhat did you buy? year subscription to SRUTH. ThaI am mi sure cinnteach that he guhimself bheil ise fh6in Verbal Noun 13/- plus 9/9 p. & p. — 1 year ann an Oifis a’ Phuist. A’ fuinne, baking. 6/6 plus 5/- p. & p. — 6 months Mairi: inChaneil the Post e. Office. Masculine Nouns with and without the Deonite Article 3/3 plus 2/6 p. & p. — 3 months He is not Aran,C&ise, bread.cheese. AnAn t-caise, aian, the the cheese. bread. IsHe e isnacheil,, not. Bonnach, a bannock. Am bonnach, the bannock. SRUTH, Di-ardaoin, 16mh latha de'n Ghiblean 1970 SEVEN

GAIDHLIG The Enchanted Giant ('VN the northward slope of being caught by the rays of a magical element: the Norse a hillside in the little the sun. The Norse word heilla, to enchant ,or to bind Adjectives township of Ballantrushal, on thurs means giant goblin or in a spell. But this is not Geal, white. the western seaboard of monster. The name given to really substantial evidence Milis, sweet. Lewis, stands a 19-foot high the stones would seem to tie because halla is a flat stone, Common words and usage monolith. up with Norse mythological which the Clach an Truiseil Gu bhith, nearly. It stands lonely, proud, belief. To strengthen this, definitely is. Is toigh leam, I like. with an eternal dignity in an Why monoliths were erec- IsCha fe&rr, toigh leam, leam, I Iprefer don’t like atmosphere of silence con- ted no-one really knows. It Cha leig thu leas, you needn’t 'bother. tained within the sea-sounds by F. Thompson is possible that there was a Is math sin, that is good. carried on the wind from the religious significance, with a Tha mi coma, I don’t care. Atlantic breakers which crash predominating sense of life, GunTha fhiosteagamh, nacheil without e, surely doubt. he is not. on the nearby shore. there is, some miles south of death and after life, in the The monolith is the Clach the Thrushel Stone, another erection of huge stones, i Truis€il —- the Thrushel monolith known locally as singly and isolated or in EXERCISES Stone. The township nearby Clach an Tursa. groups with a definite internal A. CompleOe the following sentences by filling in the blanks derives its name from it — The belief that standing relationship. That death is !• Co iad ach Seonaid? Baile na Truiseil, the town- stones are petrified giants and associated with standing 2. Bha Murchadh a’ Mairi. ship of the Thrushel Stone. dwarfs is fairly widespread, stones is evidence by the 3. Bha iad an nach robh cabhag air Murchadh. When one is confronted as witness the monoliths at presence of graves and 4. Bha e coig mionaidean deidh with a solitary standing stone Carnac in Brittany, which are burial cairns usually found 5. Cha robh iad an uair a iad Seonaid. more than three times taller believed to be an enchanted nearby. And the Gaelic word B. Give the answer "yes” to the following than oneself, questions spring army. tursach, meaning sad and 1. An robh cabhag air Sine? to the mind, and the imagina- The element of magic sorrowful, could well in- 2.3. AnAm dofaca cheannaich iad Seonaid? Mairi dad? tion works overtime to sup- ocurs in a Lewis tradition re- dicate the asociation of the ply possible answers to Who ? corded about four hundred Thrushel Stone with the C. Give the answer "no” to the following Why ? When ? years ago that standing stones last resting-place of a great 1. An do cheannaich Sine aran? Local tradition has it that were “men by enchantment man, above his people in 2.3. AmAn robhfaca iadiad toillichteSeonaid a’an bruidhinn uair a chunnaic ri Mairi? iad Seonaid? the Clach an Truiseil was turned into stone.” physical and mental prowess erected by the Morisons of A possible derivation of and well deserving of such Ness, at the , the second syllable of the an awe-inspiring monument to commemmorate a very word truiseil also contains of commemmoration. successful victory over their invading enemies, the Mac- Aulays of Uig. Every last MacAulay was killed and buried in Dmim nan Caiman, HEART’S DESIRE a now - scattered tumulus nearby. by Olive M. Squair But the truth of this tradition may be taken with I said: I weary of being an exile the proverbial salt for at In a land that is not my own. least three reasons. The I must go home. monolith obviously pre-dates any of the Lewis clans. It The lochs and high hills of Dalriada, stands in Morison territory Where my nation was forged long ago and thus provided them with They are my home. a viable advertisement of For me the isle-studded firths are sweeter, their fighting prowess. How Than the praises of alien tongues. else could they justify the Scotland is home. presence of such a monu- ment in their clan lands ? Town, farm and island reach to a future. The most cogent reason, Bright with belief, in this cradle of kings. however, comes from the Royal’s my home. possible derivations of the Gaelic lives on here, bridging the centuries. first syllable of the word Song, dance and story survive to inspire, truis,eil. There are a number Stones of pre-history and plans for the Space Age — of small monoliths, standing Argyll, mo dhachaidh, my home. singly or in groups, to which the name tursa or tufsachan is given. When the early Norse in- vaders first came to Lewis, they found the stones of the Callemish Stone Circle and called them tursachan. They thought the stones to have Your Saturday Rendezvous... once been giants petrified on Clach an Truiseil, Ballantrushal, Isle of Lewis programmes in Scotland have NEW ADVANCE FACTORIES been let or sold. Caledonian Hotel This new programme of The new programme of ad- North-East Scotland which advance factory building will vance factories announced by will be decided after local provide a further valuable in- the Minister of Technology, consultations have been un- ducement to industrial de- Dinner Dances includes nine for Scotland, dertaken. velopment in Scotland. The amounting in total to 190,000 Unduly delayed additional nine factories bring by Candlelight square feet. 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There are Greenock, Kilsyth and Lanark currently eight advance fact- SCOTS POPULATION in recognition of the difficult ories authorised under earlier The population of Scotland Room and Breakfast — 32/6 plus 10% employment situation which programmes available for was estimated to be nearly these areas are currently ex- occupation in other parts of 5,194,700 at 30th June 1969. Phone Your Reservation—INVERNESS 35181 periencing. Scotland and a further seven This figure is 7,200 more than Factories of 10,000 square are under construction; since the estimate for 30th June feet will be located at Fort the beginning of 1968 twenty- 1968, the highest population William and at a site in five factories from previous increase since 1962-63. EIGHT SRUTH, Di-ardaoin, 16mh latha de’n Ghiblean 1970

Seann Triubhas Brittany is Wild O this is no my ain house. may have been some old Gaelic abilities as a violinist there is My ain house, my ain house; song to the tune recounting no question, but as a composer This is no my ain house, the adventures, or misadven- that is another story. I ken by the biggin o’t. tures, of “ Willighan’s Old Mayne, the poet, author of and Free Breeks.” Perhaps something the beautiful song “ Logan Bread and cheese are my door similar to the better known Braes ” and others, was a Brittany has much to offer around them and large tracts of cheeks. “ Briogais Mhic Ruaraidh,” a native of Dumfries and knew the tourist. The wild tip of undeveloped land. My door cheeks, my door comic song of considerable age, Bruce intimately, and intro- north-west France remains as The Bretons, like the Scots, cheeks; one time popular in the Loch- duced him into his long de- barren and beautiful as Scot- are strongly influenced by the Bread and cheese are my door abar area. scriptive poem of “ The Siller land. Generations of young sea. The winds whistle over cheeks. The interest of the old tune Gunn.” In one of the notes to Bretons migrate from their rug- Finisterre and the land is often And pan cakes the riggin o’t. now lies more in the fact that this poem Mayne states quite ged land, painted with gorse wold and misty. The inhabit- This is no my aim wean, it was the air to which the definitely that Bruce was never and sprinkled with primroses,, ants are as friendly as anywhere My ain wean, my ain wean; dance “ Seann Triubhas ” was known to compose one note of but tourists make up some of on the Continent and the life- This is no my aim wean, tripped. The dance as usual music. Mayne was in a position the loss in July and August. cycle, as in parts of Scotland, taking its mame from the tune. to know what he was talking The history of Breton is both natural and well- I ken by the greetie o’t. nationalism is not all made up balanced. I’ll tak the curchie aff my head, Bnut pipers have now discarded about. The rugged northern coast- Aff my head, aff my head; this old tune in favour of In any case the tune is older line and the creeks and bays of I’ll tak the curchie aff my head. “ Whistle o’er the lave o’t.” than Bruce’s time. There is an by Reg Moore the southern shoreline are And row’t about the feetie o’t. This change took place a long old ribald song which tells us chiselled out by time’s passing time ago. of frustrated farmers. The mys- passage of wind and sea. There The first verse of above is Robert Burns thought the She sent her daughter to the terious Celtic land mass har- is a strong natural affinity with part of an old seventeenth tune “ Whistle o’er the lave well, bours centuries of folk-lore and other Atlantic shorehnes, not- century song the rest is by o’t” was composed by John Better she had gane hersel ’; ancient traditions. ably Scotland, Ireland, Corn- Allan Ramsay. He gives the air Bruce, a Dumfries fiddler. She miss’d a foot, and down she The Bretons, whether they wall, Portugal and Galicia In to which it was sung as “ The Writing to George Thomson fell— are unspoilt peasants, farmers Spain. deil stick the minister” which on the 19th October 1794, he and fishermen, can hark back Whole tracts of Brittany are can be found in Henry Play- says, “ Whistle o’er the lave and there we must leave the in any small bistro to the fifth covered with churches and cal- ford’^, “Original Scotch Tunes,” o’et” is mine: the music is lassie. Burns knew this song century, when a Celtic overspill varies. Places like Quimper 1700. The word “ stick ” here said to be by John Bruce, a before he went to live in Dum- from Britain settled on the have extended their horizons to has nothing to do with adhesive- celebrated violin player in Dum- fries. He tried to mend it and Continent. include future homes. St Malo ness, but is the old word mean- fries, about the beginning of make it decent to go into The modern Brittany has to and the haunting Mont-St- ing to butcher, a word still in this century. This I know, respectable company, but could contend with rising prices and Michel attract thousands of use in rural parts of the Bruce who was an honest man, make nothing to his satisfaction central neglect in a changing tourists every summer. The country. Why the deil should though a red wud .Highland- of it, so he rewrote the song economic world. More than Benedictine Abbey can only be butcher the minister we are not man, constantly claimed it; altogether, retaining only the thirty thousand of the province’s reached by a long narrow told. The song is not now suing and, by all the old musical recurring line “ Whistle o’er the best youth emigrate annually to causeway across sand that is to this old tune. people here, is believed to be lave o’t.” find employment. Breton autho- constantly washed and cut off Robert Burns in referring to the author of it.” “ The music of this song,” rities have long appealed for by the tide. Ramsay’s song says the tune is John Bruce was a native of says Motherwell, “ has long more factories on their soil to Finisterre is the Land’s End an old Highland one known as Braemar, was out in the 1745, been popular. Gentle and curb the drain In man-power, of the region. It is a haunting “ Shuan Truish Willighan.” He was taken prisoner, and, on his simple have equally acknow- but so far industry has been tip where ‘ le Grant Vent ’ does not tell us where he found release, settled down in Dum- ledged its life invigorating confined to the interior at roars across the rocks and his information but it was prob- fries. He was a skilled violinist notes.” Rennes and the ports of Lorient whistles inland. It is a curious ably in Robert Bremner’s and was in constant request at It is said by Stenhouse, and Brest. region of tradition and con- “ Scots Reels or Country assemblies, balls, weddings and “ This air has generally been One of the most important tract, living up to the numerous Dances,” age 71, 1760. “ Seann all social occasions where music considered of Irish origin, be- local industries, canning, has tales of mystery and intrigue. Truish ” stands for “ Seann was required. He also occasion- cause it was adapted to a song virtually disappeared with the Regional self-awareness is re- Triubhas ” and Willigham is ally played in the orchestra of written by John O’Keefe, Ssyr. closing down of sixty more viving again in Brittany and probably a man’s name. There the Dumfries theatre. Of his in his comic opera of the “ Poor factories recently. Agriculture is scores of new associations foster Soldier ” which was first acted unstable at present and the land folklore culture and language. at Covent Garden 1783.” of small-holders find them- The craggy old language, akin R. A. Smith in his “ Irish selves up against growing con- to ancient Shakespeare, is Minstrel” claims the air for cerns and Government mono- spoken by no less than a third Ireland under the name of polies. of the inhabitants and brought “ Noble Sir Arthur ” to which Brittany needs some of the into daily use in the crepe and he supplies Burns’s song. This active prosperity of Holland to cider inns. Irish claim appears to be no revive its west coast ports and The Bretons can be extremely more than mere assertion as he inject new life into its ship- religious people and mystical. gives no authority for it. building industry. They need The are resourceful^ witty and Stenhouse again says, “ The wider markets across the Chan- proud. In an economically air was composed about the nel and Atlantic and a place in under-developed area they re- year 1720 by John Bruce . . . the scheme of things in France. main peasants and fishermen at and Oswald afterwards pub- The neglect is not unlike that heart. Their hearts are in the lished it with variations in the which has happened to parts of land and the beautiful wind- last volume of his “ Caledonian Scotland. Both countries face swept bays that fringe this bar- Pocket Companion.” The air is the growing tourist invasion all ren area of France. contained in the seventh num- ber of Bremner’s Reels,” 1759, and with variations in Oswald’s Caledonian Pocket Compa- nion,” book XII of the same date, Dauney in his “Ancient Domhnall Domhnallach Scottish Melodies ” says, “ My SUIDH A STIGH Ladie Menteith’s Lament ” in Duisg, the Bilaikie Manuscript is Tairbeart na Hearradh duisg, “ Whistle O’er the lave o’t.” ★ ★ ★ Tha aoighean gun chuireadh, This entirely defeats Bruce’s a’ muigheadh, claim to the authorship as the PAIPEARAN NAIDHEACHD IS UIDHEAM DHEALBH suidhe, age of the Blaikie Manuscript An siteag na h-aitreabh, goes back to 1692. (Photo Equipment) Dha’n tug an amhainn, Burns moved to Dumfries in a h-ainm, 1788 and Bruce appears to ¥ ¥ ¥ Thug an amhainn, have been then in his full LADIES AND GENT.’S CLOTHES an cuireadh. powers. If Bruce was bom be- A Shasunnaich, fore 1692 and old enough at * ★ ★ gun naire, that date to compose the tune gun Ghaidhlig, he must have been more than a CLO HEARRACH — STOCAINNEAN IS FIGHE gun mhaireach. centenarian when Bums lived DONNCHADH MACLEOID in Dumfries. SRUTH, Di-ardaoin. 16mh latha de n Ghiblean 1970 NINE AIR TUR Naidheachdan Mu i\a h-£aglai$ean Stirling NA Air A’ Ghaidhealtachd Gaelic Le “ FEAR-FAIRE ” FAIRE EAGLAIS NA H-ALBA an Colaisde na Trianaid an Choir Glaschu. Seanadh Earraghcridhecd In the very pleasant setting Chaidh an t-Urr. Coinneach Comanachadh of the Riverways Restaurant, Mac a’ Mhaoilein a thaghadh Chumadh na h-Orduighean Stirling, the choir held a pre- mar Mhoderator air Seanadh sentation Dinner and Ceilidh ann an Eaglais nan Uigean ann Dance on Friday, 20th March. Earraghaidheal. Tha e ’na an Leodhas bho chionn ghoind. After dinner, the President mhinistear ’san Apainn agus A’ cuideachadh aig na seir- of the choir, Mrs M. F. M. buinidh e do Bhearnaraigh na bhisean bha an t-Urr. Niall A’ searmonachadh bha na h- AN EAGLAIS McNicol, made a presentation Hearadh. Bha e an toiseach ’na Domhnullach (Liurbost) agus Urr. MacAmhlaigh, mimscear CHAITLIGEACH on behalf of the choir to Miss mhinistear anns an Eilean an t-Urr. Donnchadh Mac- a’ Bhaic, agus Domhnullach. Air an Reidio Margaret M. Matheson on Sgiathanach agus ann am Fhionghain (Nis). (Inbhirnis) Os cionn coimh- the occassion of her leaving Muile. thional Bhearnaraigh tha an Air a’ mhios dh’atharraich- the choir to return home to Dsagh Sheirbhiseach t-Urr. Domhnull Domhnullach eadh na seirbhisean Gaidhlig Lewis. AN EAGLAIS SHAOR (Carlabhagh). Tha esan an air an reidio. An aite bhith air Mrs McNicol traced Miss Tha Mgr. Daibhidh Mac- drasda thall ann an Canada far a craobh-sgaoileadh Di-mairt Matheson,s very distinguished Ghille-ruaidh a bha ochd Gairm am bheil e a’ cur seachad sia bidh seirbhis a’ tighinn ;a mach record as a member and office- bliadhna ’na mhaor-eaglais ann Chaidh an t-Urr. Eachann a h-uile Sabaid aig tri uairean. bearer of the choir. From the an Eaglais Hilton a nis air an Camshron a thaghadh mar miosan a’ searmonachadh ann Air ceann man seirbhisean air choir’s inception in January obair a leigeil dheth. Thugadh mhinistear le coimthional Dor- an coimthionalan co-chean- a’ mhios seo bha an t-Ath. Urr. 1948 to November 1969, she dha tiodhlacan-speis o’n choim- noch. Gabhaidh e aite an Urr. gailte ris an Eaglais Shaoir. Domhnull MacFhionghail a was Gaelic Reader. From thional. Tha e 87 bliadhna a Uilleam MacLeoid, nach mair- Thomliebank an Glaschu. 1948 to 1952, she was also dh’aois. eann. Tha Mgr. Camshron ’na Air Clar Honorory Secretary and from mhinistear ann an Inbhir-uige. November 1956 to November Coinneamh Bhliadhnail AN EAGLAIS SHAOR Tha an seinneadair ainmeil, 1969, Honorary Treasurer. In Air ceann na coinneamh- NaidheVchd Bais CHLEIREIL an t-Ath. Urr. Sidney Mac- recognition of her services bhliadhnail ann an eaglais Ros- Eoghain gu bhith seinn a dh’- to the choir, she was appoint- cuibhne bha an t-Urr. Anndra Chaochail an t-Urr. Ruairidh Fagail na Hearadh aithghearr air clar ur. Comhla ed Vice-President in 1960 and Howe. Chualas lomradh air Caimbeul a bha ’na mhinistear Tha an t-Urr. A. Catanach ris bidh an comhlan George retained this office until 1963. ionmhas a’ choimthionail, air ann an Grianaig. Bhuineadh e air gairm fhaighinh o choim- Mitchell Singers. She also served for a term of an Sgoil Shabaid agus air do na Hearadh. An uiridh SOP AS GACH SEID . . years as the choir’s represent- dh-eug an t-Urr. Iain Domh- thional an t-Sratha ’san Eilean CHAOCHAIL an t-Urr. ative -to the Association of Comunn nam Ban. A’ labhairt nullach, a bha ’na mhinistear Sgiathanach. Tha esan ’na Uilleam Millard aig faisg air Gaelic Choirs and became its mar aoigh bha an t-Urr. Tear- ann an Grabhair, agus bho mhinistear ann am Fionnsbagh ceud bliadhna a dh-aois. Bha e Vice-President in 1960. lach Robasdan. chionn ghoirid thainig marbh- ’s na Hearadh. Is ann bho ^uair-eigin ’na mhinistear ann an Mrs McNicol spoke of the Profeasmr air Chuairt rann a rinneadh dha am follais chionn ghoirid a chaidh coimh- Inbhir Uige. Chum e an t-seir- great debt that the choir owed ann am paipear Steornabhaigh. thional a steidheachadh ’san bhis mu dheireadh an uiridh. to Miss Matheson and men- Anns an t-Sultuin bidh am t-Srath. Air a’ cheud Sabaid CUIRIBH naidheachdan air- tioned tjie advice and help Prof. Urr. Uilleam Barclay a’ Orduighean de’n mhios bha Mgr. Catanach son na duilleige seo gu Fear- which she so freely gave. labhairt aig coinneamhan Sgoil Chumadh an Comanachadh a’ cuideachadh aig na h- deasachaidh “ Sruth.” On behalf of the choir, Mrs Shabaid ann an Cataibh. Tha ann am Bearnaraigh Leodhais Orduighean air an Achadh GUTH O NA LINNTEAN McNicol presented Miss am Profeasair a’ teagasg ann air a’ cheud Sabaid de’n mhios. Mhor. A DH’FHALBH: “ Mur aith- Matheson with an armchair nich thu Dia air a ghnuis, air and a dressing table set. Orduighean a ghuth, air a laimh, faoda'idh In her reply, Miss Mathe- son thanked the choir and Chumadh an Comanachadh tu aithneachadh air a chridhe— Mrs McNicol. She went on to SLOINNEADH CON ann an ceann-a-deas na Hear- an cridhe sin aige-sari cho trace her recollections of the adh. A’ searmonachadh bha an iochdmhor ri anamaibh—sin a choir from its earliest days Caraid a bha sud, air hohday Bha abhag bheag dhubh aca, t-Urr. Iain Mac a’ Chombaich chridhe-san.” — Ruiseart Bac- to date and said how pleased ann an Gleann Moireasdainn, ris an canadh iad “Angus.” (Gleann-dail) agus an t-Urr. ster, “ Fois Shiorruidh nan she was that the choir had dithis Shasunnach a bh’annda Seorsa de Scotty Dog a bh’ann. Calum MacAonghais (Ulapul). Naomh.” won the Lovat and Tullibard- fuireach ann an taigh a Ghlinne. ine Shield Competition and Oidhche bha sud bha iad nan the Esmee Smyth Trophy at suidhe ’sa chidsean comhla li REVIEW ORDER the Aviemore National Mod. Innleachdan Dra muinntir an taighe ’nuair a However, she said that she So cuid de na bha an Dr D. thaiinig nabuidh a staigh, duine PATH TO MATURITY character in itself. would not be completely I MacLeoid ag iarraidh a bhi ris an can iad Aonghas. Ghabh Rish is made gradually happy until the choir could smaoineachadh air: e aite aig an teine ach cha Author Jim Hunter has been aware that his old hero, Allen, say it had also won the d’thubhairt e moran, cha robh establishing a reputation for his is lacking in substance. This is Weekly Scotsman Quaich for (1) Coirichean airson na aige ach glc bheag de Bheurla. gift of dose observation of an assessment from a new- the highest marks in Gaelic Gaidhlig a shireadh agus a Thuig e na bha iad ag radh people and events, and the found maturity. in the Lovat and Tullibardine cheumail air leth o bhi cur na math gu leor agus bha e air a manner in which one reacts with The change in the characters Shield Competition. Gaidhlig air adhart le bhi a ■dhoigh taghta a bhi na shuidhe and to the other. His latest of the novel takes ’place at a In closing Miss Matheson tagairt ri buidheanan naiseanta ’g eisdeachd riutha agus novel ‘ Walking in the Pajnted level rather beneath the almost said that choir members — a tarruing bhuidhnean eile a’smocadh a phiob. Ceann Sunshine ’ confirms Mr Hunter superficial talk and chat used would always be welcome at gu cuideadhadh-ag oibreachadh greiseag dh’eirich a bhana- as an experienced weaver of by the three people in the book. her home in Lewis, and wbuld roimh phaipearan naidheachd Shasunnach agus thubhairt i words producing a sensitive But the final change is as evid- receive the traditional hospit- agus a gearain mar a thatar a ris an duine aice “ Isn’t it time cloth with an almost personal ent as a painted picture. Mr ality, deanamh, le seoladh cheiseau you put Angus out, darling?” feel to its texture. Hunter is to be congratulated on litreach a choir an Gaidhlig Dh’eirich mo laochann ’sa In the novel there are three tackling a subject which could agus a leithid sin. Tha daoine mhionaid gu slatach stiurteil people, all at a moment in their have fallen flat on its face, but Preverb dubha an diugh a faighinn agus thubhairt e rithe “Angus lives which is in the nature of which, with his sure feeling for Cha bhi toradh gun saothar. choirichean nacheil aig Gaid- can put himself out ” agus thug a turning point. Their future people, personalised in his There will .be no produce with- heil. e’n dorus air. depends on it; but they must created characters, has made c out labour. (2) A brosnachadh teagasg first achieve some kind of per- sensitive story. is feum na Gaidhlig. Tha 15% Thachair tubaist eile dhe'n sonal assessment. Perhaps one might take the gan call gach bliadhna as an t-seors’ sin dhomh fhein latha Rich and Judy are a young author to task for his use of Text fer aireamh a bha ann an 1961. bha mi ann an car comhla ri couple who are looking forward imagery which often takes the the Times Dh’fheuroar stad a chuir air a paisde, caileag bheag neo- to parenthood. Their marriage reader soaring away into the Sealbhaichidh an ti a bheir chall seo. B’e na h-Eileanan an charach a bh’innte. Nuair a bha was a product of joint admira- elemental clouds aind then drops buaidh na h-uile nithe; agus lar an t-aite airson a Ghaidhlig sinn a dol seachad taigh tion for Allen, in whose Youth him hard and fast into a world bithidh mise a’m Dhia dhasan, a . ghleidheadh agus mur a nabuidh thubhairt i “ See Theatre Company they met. of solid insentient concrete. agus bithidh esan ’na mhac cumadh iad an sluagh ’se mu what Rory’s doing.” Cha do The marriage took place against But the imagery is so good that dhomhsa. 7,000 a bhiodh air fhagail ann dh’fhairich mi’n toiseach de bu the wishes of the parents, which one accepts it. Maybe only Mr i Taisbeanadh. C. 21 R. 7. an 2070. Dh’fheumte cuideachd chiall dhi ach choimhead mi far introduces a nice subtle touch Hunter could get away with it. He that overcometh shall in- inbhe a chosnadh do’n Gaid- an robh ise ’g coimhead agus de of inner conflict. This is a fine novel, un- herit all things; and I will be his hlig le bhi ga cuir gu feum an chunnaic mi ach da chu robach, The three characters go off doubtedly eligible to follow on God and he shall be my son. colaisdean an oilthighean agus bogsairean grannda a bh’annda. on a holiday in a remote part his other three books with a Revelations Ch. 21 V. 7. barrachd aire fhaighinn o’n Chan fhaod mi innseadh de bha of the western Highlands, there sure confidence. Arts Council. iad ris. to work out their experiences in “ Walking in the Painted The views expressed in this news- Chithear an oraid so gu ’Se droch fhasan co-dhiubh terms of themselves amd the Sunshine ” by Jim Hunter; 28s; paper are not necessarily those h-iomlan an duilleagan Sruth a bhith cuir ainmean flaitheal landscape which, in Mr Hun- Faber and Faber, 24 Russell ofCaidhealach. the publishers : An Comunn dh’aithghearr. Gaidheal air bruidean. ter’s pages, almost becomes a Square, London, W.C.l. TEN SRUTH, Di-ardaoin, 16mh latha de’n Ghiblean 1970

Equality of Languages LIFE OK ORKNEY gue makes one imagine one is yUGOSLOVIA is a multi- discussion, particularly in the freedom and well-being. This Part Two listening to Norwegian radio. national state. Besides the work of the Federal Assem- is why elementary courses in In my first article, I gave The Norse influence survives Yugoslav nationalities, Serbs, bly. Forms and official docu- other Yugoslav languages are my view of the economic life even although the old lang- Croats, Slovenes, Macedon- ments are also printed in the already being introduced in of Orkney and the prospects uage, the Norn, is slowly dy- ians and Montenegrins, which languages of the individual schools. This reflects the for a prosperous future. Now ing Fletts and Baikies still make up 88 per cent, of the attitude of the younger gen- let me say something of the trade as butchers and bakers. total population, it has many eration, who have grown up cultural climate, the everyday Standing Stones, brochs, bur- national minorities, Alban- by MoidragAsanin in complete equality in the life of the folk and how my- ial chambers and ancient ians, Hungarians, Turks, individual republics, speaking self, a mere “ferry-louper” can churches are part of the land- Rumanians, Czechs Italians, nations, and, in autonomous their mother tongue, In settle down so easily. scape. The town of Strom- Ruthenians, and others, for- provinces, in the languages addition to such courses, the Orkney is a cosmopolitan ness (described by one citizen ming 12 per cent, of the of the minorities living in literature of the other Yugo- county, and has been for as an accidental work of art) population. Nevertheless, as them. It is also necessary slav languages will be studied thousands of years a place for has its narrow main street from now on, a member of for this principle to be in the schools in the original sea farers to stop off for sup- paved with slabs of sandstone any national minority will be applied in all federal insti- instead of in translation. plies of food and fresh water. which makes it difficult for able to speak in his mother tutions and in the field of Multilingualism The archaeological remains motor traffic. But always one tongue in the Federal As- transport (in public notices In the Republic of Serbia, is aware that the main sembly, republican assemblies in trains, buses planes sta- more than 300,000 pupils of by CHARLES SENIOR street is really the sea. and all public gatherings in tions, road signs, etc.). eight national minorities are are prominent on the land- The spirit of the islands in the same way as a Serb, receiving their school tuition scape and stand as permanent and islanders is bound up Slovene, or Macedonian uses Macedonian view in their mother tongue. And monuments to the skill of closely with their heritage his own language. According Speaking on the practical in the Law and Economics former inhabitants. From pre- and fisher and farmer are to the 1963 Constitution, implementation of the prin- Faculty in Pristina, main historic times. Stone Age, proud of this. Edwin Muir federal organs are obliged to ciple of language equality, town of the Autonomous Bronze Age, Norse Invasion was a native of the island of uphold the legislation on Kole Sasule, a leading Province of Kosovo-Meto- and Christianisation there Wyre and his Orkney boy- equality of languages. In the Macedonain writer, said: hija, where 800,000 Albanians have always been visitors who hood experiences are so vivid- Federal Assembly, this has “Throughout the whole of live, bilingual teaching has have stayed on to enjoy the ly transmuted into poetry of already been put into practice. Macedonian history, those been introduced. Publishing peculiar advantages of the exceptional quality that his The Standing Orders state: who denied the existence of houses print school text- place. Strangers have never work is not yet appreciated “The speech of a deputy at a the Macedonian language booke and other works in been a novelty and the Orc- as it deserves. Although he joint session of all chambers thereby revealed their hege- various languages. The Insti- adian treats the visitor with a left Orkney as a very young in one of the languages of the monistic aims, while those tute of Schooling of the Auto, unique frankness and hospit- man he could not forget the peoples of Yugoslavia is who recognised the Mace- nomous Province of Vojvo- ality peculiar only to these landscape and the inborn translated into the language donian language showed dina publishes books in islands. culture that was his heritage. of the other peoples.” themselves, in this way, to Hungarian, Rumanian, and Apart from the romantic Similarly, today, George The right to use one’s be democrats, international- Ruthenian, and the Institute notions of Island Utopias Mackay Brown writes and mother tongue is, guaranteed ists, friend of the Macedonian for the Publication of Text- there is a quality about island works in his native Stromness not only to the Yugoslav people and of freedom.” life that is special to each in- (his fine book An Orkney nations bu toi all nationali Educationalists and scien- Books of Serbia, in Bulgarian dividual island. The best ex- Tapestry was reviewed in minorities. This uniform tists throughout the country as well. Newspapers and ample I know of writer being Sruth a few months ago). principle is now being fully have been urging that in various works in Czech, influenced by islands, is the Mackay Brown’s work has implemented in practice for schools and all media of com- Slovak, Italian and other lan- Irish playwright J. M. Synge, that quality that immediately the first time.. Deputies will munication the permanent guages are published in who gained great inspiration evokes the essence of Orkney most probably have at their and equal use of all lan- Croatia. from his visits to the Aran life and history. His prose disposal the same system of guages of the Yugoslav Efforts are being made to Islands off the Irish Atlantic and. poetry, show such fine simultaneous translation used peoples should be guaranteed. speed up the higher educa- coast. It was not just their craftsmanship and delight, in the United Nations. “There is no question about tion of members of national remoteness and the fact that that he is deservedly gaining The practical implementa- our obligation to respect the minorities, since in these in his day there were few an ever widening audience. tion of this constitutional constitutional rights of all sections of the population visitors, but because of the Among the folk, there is a ruling on the equality of nations and national groups there were almost no intel- quaint spirit abroad springing readiness to listen to or tell languages has been the sub- to use their own language,” lectuals before the war. They from the unity of place and a story. Undoubtedly, this is a ject of considerable discus- stresset Dr Grga Novak, had neither schools nor the population, of economic ne- direct legacy from the tradi- sion. The Constitutional President of the Yugoslav rights they enjoy today, so cessity and the ways the tional sagas. The humour is Court of the Republic of Academy of Arst and Scien- that higher education was people had of exploiting the trite and has a great gusto and Slovenia, for example has ces in Zagreb, “but it cannot practically closed to them. natural wealth of sea and land the stories are better told over asked that all government be achieved overnight. In The languages of the \ ugo- by ancient methods in a con- a pint of home-brewed ale bodies and organisations in Italy, for example, it took slav nationalities and national stant fierce combat with the Folk are much the same in- this republic use the Slovene several centuries for the minority groups have been elements. Their language, dividually no matter where language, all school text- speech of the various regions preserved throughout history, Synge tells us was pure and they come from and Orkney books be printed in Slovenian mutually differing far more despite subjugation and the simple. Their oral tradition so folV: are not exceptional. But and the language be used by than the languages of the pressure often exerted by lively and full of ancient al- there is a quality about place customs officials, in film Yugoslav natios, to bow to foreign rulers, as the strong- lusion and myth that he was and people that makes Ork- newsreels, etc. the Tuscan speech, now the est weapon to protect their enchanted. He learned the ney a good place to live in Differing opinions sole literary language. We national identity. Irish spoken and a great trans- whether you are a writer or a In a multi-national, fedeial formation came upon his own What are the views of should therefore not become state, equalitf of languages is English writing so that we carpenter, a farmer or a people prominent in the impatione in our wish to an imperative, a fundamental are left with the rich reward fisherman. political, cultural and public solve everything at once. The element of democracy and of his dramas. Here I enjoy the steady life of the country on this future will settle this.” one of the guarantees of the In Scotland too, we know rhythm of the place, the new practice ? Despite a number of tech- successful development of the that such Island communities closeness to the elements, the “The equality of the lan- nical diffirulties, the practical society. preserve ancient traditions, fertility of land and sea, a guages of the peoples of equalityimplementation cannot beof postponedlanguage [Reprinted from review, even in the face of such bland- disdain of measured time and Yugoslavia is a constitutional Y ugoslav Monthly Maga- ishments as modem progress, the treasured calm after principle and federal organs since in constitutes on of the whatever that may mean. So every storm. Above all I have are therefore obliged to see basic elements of national zine, Belgrade} too with Orkney. The lilt and become closer to my own life that it is implemented with- my boyhood in Glasgow out any obstruction,” com-, inflection of the Orkney ton- stands out clearly now and I mented Professor Djordjevic, can see the city in its true Chairman of the Federal FaHte Do Lybster colours. I can sense its great Executive Council. “This THE PORTLAND ARMS humanity, its strengths and principle derives from the its weaknesses. In this com- character of Yugoslavia as a extends a warm welcome munity I hope to be able to federal socialist republic “UNE LANGUE SANS ECOLES, SANS Salmon Fishing, Trout Fishing write down some record of based on a multi-national SANS UNIVERSITE, SANS JOURNAUX. Sea Angling what Glasgow did to me and community of equal peoples. Good Fare and a Fine Cellar for me. As I write a south The 1963 Constitution differs SANS TELEVISION, ESI UNE LANGUE easterly gale howls down from the others by expres- DESTINEE A DISPARAITRE DE LA VIE DOMHNALL Scapa Flow. But I am snug sly stating that all organs in my cottage thanks to the must uphold equality of SOCIALE ET DE LA CHOSE 1MPRIMEE, A MACASGAILL Hydro Board. You see, I can languages.” TOMBER DANS LA PURE ARCHEOLOGIE.” ARDHASAIG still appreciate the necessity It is the undisputed right • for the sophisticated life but of every citizen to use his Jean Oliver, Buth Ghoireasan is let us keep things in per- mother tongue not only in (poete Catalan) Gach ni a tha dhith oirbh spective. parliament but in every (concluded public place and for all SRUTH, Di-ardaoin. 16mh latha de n Ghiblean 1970 ELEVEN

Lewis Council of Social Service In his address at the inaugu- vires voluntary bodies are very makes it all the more import- meglomania which sometimes and easily assimilated and much freer than local authori- ant that we should have a local mars otherwise praiseworthy always progressing, culture is ral meeting of the Lewis ties or statutory bodies such as voluntary body reaching up to local efforts. not. So that in effect our lives Council of Social Service Mr the Crofters Commission on the grasp its hand Neil Gunn, the most dis- might become poorer the richer James Shaw Grant, Chairman Development Board. Shetland provides an out- tinguished of living Scottish we get. of the Crofters Commission standing example of a com- novelists, described the Lewis Every community has its own said: A Council or a statutory body munity which is using the ser- Association as one of the finest culture, its own way of looking The formation of a Council can only do the things which vices of the Highland Board as movements in communal orga- at things and this may be of Social Service could be a the law expressly permits. A they should be used. nisation which Scotland had ichanged by the advance of dramatic step forward for the voluntary body can do anything Recently the Island of Tiree produced for many a long year. civilisation. Island of Lewis. Provided, of which the law does not ex- got into the news, first for its “ It is not a movement initi- This fact is of special im- course, that the Council is pressly forbid. initiative in tackling the prob- ated by the Secretary of State portance in an area like this directed with energy and guided Councils of Social Service lem of brucellosis and then for and due to be investigated by with a minority culture which with imagination. are not bound in that way. They its success in capturing a small an official committee,” he wrote, we must inevitably modify in For too long we in Britain can explore new problems. They knitwear factory which will “ it is not a scheme devised by seeking the material progress we have been involved in a sterile can try new methods. They are transform the employment situ- local authorities on a regional need for survival. How de we debate about the respective not restricted and they are not ation over the next few years. basis.” “ It is something much modify but not destroy? merits of voluntary effort and inhibited. They are completely Both these successes were more significant than these and Here you have a whole official action. We now realise free within the limits set by the largely due to the existence of a in my wanderings about Scot- quiverful of problems to exer- that the anthithesis is absurd. ability and the resources at Council of Social Service. land I have come across noth- cise a Council of Social Service We need both. Very much more their command. One of the most difficult ing quite like it. Whatever along with the other and more of both than we are ever likely But are there new problems problems facing the crofting ultimately may come of it of immediate matters with which to have. The problem is not the to be explored in Lewis? Do areas is finding new sources of this I am certain—that in it we you are faced. philosophic one of deciding in we-not already know it all and self-employment for those who have a manifestation of the only To keep these problems in a given, situation where the deal with it all. I wonder! live in townships beyond the kind of spirit which can truly perspective, however, I would boundary between the two We have recently come up reach of industry. It is a prob- build and enrich social life.” remind you that in his very first should lie. There is still room against the disturbing fact that lem which the Crofters Com- In spite of these encomiums book on community, the book for differences of opinion. But rural villages, even close to mission is directing a good the Lewis Association failed to that established his reputation they are not differences in prin- Stornoway, are losing popula- deal of attention to at the mom- achieve its wider purpose. It more than half a century ago, ciple. They are practical issues tion much more rapidly than ent. It will not be easy to solve failed not because it was wrong Maciver wrote of the “ eternal which can be resolved by anyone previously supposed. it but it will be easier in areas but because it was premature. possibility of communal rejuve- rational discussion. What sort of preblems is this which have an active Council There w'as no government nessence.” Potent forces, he The matter was well put by steady drain producing in the of Social Service than in those policy of regional development said, exist in every community the Secretary of State last smaller, more remote communi- which have not. Some Councils for it to latch on to. It was waiting for the challenge and October when he addressed the ties? In the past we could assert have already done good work in speaking a language which the vision to call them into Scottish Council of Social Ser- with truth that no one in Lewis this field—notably the Council Edinburgh and Westminster had action. vice—the organisation you are was ever lonely or neglected. in North West Sutherland. not then learned. And then he wrote this pas- now proposing to join. He drew There were always willing, But while I speak of Shet- It is very different today. sage which might well be the attention to the fact that the helpful, active neighbours. But land, Tiree and Sutherland we We have a regional develop- charter of your new Council of Social Work (Scotland) Act of given the age structure of the should not forget that one of ment policy and the means to Social Service. 1968—one of the most impor- population in many parts of the the pioneer attempts in Scot- carry it out. We have the “ The more the members of tant pieces of social legislation Island today, can we say with land at development from Skefington Committee Report a community enter into the life in recent years—makes specific certainty that this is still true, within the community was made on the importance of participa- of that community, the richer provision to enable local autho- and even if it is true today will here in Lewis, 25 years ago. tion by local people in the by the amount they themselves rities to discharge their respon- it continue indefinitely to be During its short life the Lewis planning of their own towns and have brought becomes that life. sibilities through voluntary true? Association attracted a great cities. We have the Secretary of Its quality is the quality of the bodies. Then he said: Even because of this situa- deal of attention, not only State’s speech which I have social units whose common life “ The need for voluntary tion alone it seems to me im- locally, but nationally and even already quoted emphasising the it is—the fuel is poor, how bodies to continue to provide portant that we should have a internationally. importance of voluntary action can the flame be bright? But services in the future is not widely based Council of Social The Association was visited from within the community and its intensity is the degree in simply based on the fact that Service in Lewis which can among others by one of the at last we have come to realise which these members are united the local authority social work pool the information and the Tennessee Valley Authority— that physical planning by itself, in that common life:—scatter departments are not yet in a resources of all the excellent the great prototype in the West- however brilliantly conceived, the coals and what once glowed position themselves to provide voluntary organisations which ern world of regional develop- does not create living communi- in a radiant focus will flicker all the services needed. It will already exist — and this is the ment. ties. Communities live their feebly in dispersed and meagre always be the case that the crucial point—a Council which The Fabian Quarterly which own lives for reasons which are fires. It is this spiritual activity voluntary body has distinctive will be just as sensitive to the is not normally interested in rooted in the human spirit we call society, this conscious qualities.” situation in Breanish or Lemre- the offshore islands wrote of the rather than in the physical en- co-operation in a great common “A voluntary gody is not way as it is to the things that Lewis Association as an ex- vironment. life that sustains within it the burdened with the need to make are happening round Percival tremely interesting example of In this new climate your life of every contributorj as the large scale basic provision and Square. community enterprise, pleas- Council of Social Service can energy of its ardent centre keeps it can concentrate on a specific A Council of Social Service antly free from that form cf begin where the Lewis Associa- every coal in the fire aglow. area of need to the exclusion of is not, of course, confined to tion left off. It can succeed To fall away from the fife is to other demands. This will al- social work—in spite of the where the Lewis Association pale and grow cold like a cin- ways mean that in some areas name. It is free to map out its failed. der, to lose the communion of of work the voluntary body own programme, to decide its It is a matter in which we society is to lose the community can go further or faster than the own priorities. can take legitimate pride that in which each life is quickened.” statutory authority can hope to Most of the Councils which one of the great original thinkers That in a nutshell is the func- do. Voluntary bodies have.ah already exist in the Highlands who has brought about this tion of a Council, of Social. impressive record also in being came into being primarily to change in our attitude to human Service—to quicken the life of the first to identify a new need deal with economic problems. affairs, one of the pioneers in the community. It works by and to initiate provision to meet There is, I understand, a cer- modem sociology, was himself gathering all those who have a this need. Voluntary bodies tain amount of pressure on them a Lewisman with roots both in contribution to make so that have played an important role today from headquarters to town and country. their individual efforts are not in awakening central Govern- narrow their activities. This In the last of his long series only added to each other but ment and local authorities to the would be a mistake. It is a of books on the organisation multiplied together as each neseds of particular deprived typical example of urban and development of communi- takes fire from the others’ groups of the population and myopia. The parochialism of ties Robert Maciver draws a enthusiasm. also for improvement of the the city dweller hemmed in by sharp distinction between civili- There are few people in statutory services.” houses who sees the problems sation and culture. Scotland—if any—better quali- A Council of Social Service of the Highland wilderness :n Civilisation he defines in fied to tell you how this process is not set up in opposition to terms of overcrowded city terms of material products like works than Sheriff Macdonald. local authorities or statutory streets. vpewriters and television, or He is Chairman of Shetland bodies. It is not an encumbrance You cannot dissociate social formal institutions. Culture he Council of Social Service which making their work more diffi- from economic problems, wel- defines as the use we make of has a remarkable record of cult. It is not a watchdog bark- fare from jobs, in townships these things—the nature of the achievement behind it. He is ing at their heels. It is an which are bleeding to death. books written on the typewriters, also Chairman of the Federa- instrument they can use. An And the very fact that we the content of the television tion of Councils of Social Ser- instrument with a finer cutting now have a Highland Board, programmes; the quality of life vice which carries the quicken- edge than any of their own. a powerful arm of central gov- aSin thu agad cantail Concorde. sid rithe Carson ? our institutions provide. ing process one stage further by In Britain because of the ernment, to deal with the Then he comments that while pooling the enthusiasm and the operation of the law of ultra economic problems of the area niNuair i Sonic a iha Boom.i deanamh asdair civilisation is easily transmitted knowledge of all the Councils TWELVE SRUTH, Di-ardaoin, 16mh latha den Ghiblean 1970 CULLODEN INFORMATION CENTRE The United Scotsmen and Births OPENS TODAY MACKAY—At Raigmore Hospi- a Scottish Republic tal,1970, Inverness, to Donald on and 25th Joan March, Mac- His remaining colleagues of the enrol more than 16 members and kay, a son. Both well. Friendsto enlist ofFrench the People aid. continuedOn Feb- newwhen branches that number were formed,was reached, Andreruary placed8, 1795, a memorandumCitoyen J. onB. secretlyEach branchThe metvillage regularly branches and theirof Public behalf Safetybefore theurging Committee action, meetingselected delegatesand from to thethe county Deaths “Tout fait resumer qu’elle re- meetings, delegates were elected MORRISON — At the School- dencepredroit si Tonson, iadoitancienne a secouver indepen- le to Thethe placeNational at whichConvention, the Ccn- house, , on 3rd April, joug." vention was to be held was not John1970, AgnesMorrison, Morrison, 17 Eorodale,widow of MengaudAs a resulawas sentof this,as anCitoyne emis- disclosedall he got even was toa slipthe ofdelegate; paper Port of Ness, aged 75 years. sarythat heto foundScotland. the Scots He muchreported dis- fromthe “intermediary”the County Secretary' who wouldbear- Very sorely missed. posed to revolution and “this call for him and conduct him to McLEAN—AtMarch, 1970, Glasgow,Lachlan McLean,on 18th feelingUnion ofhas England existed and sinceScotland.” the thepointed. Convention The Nationalat the timeConven- ap- son of the late Mr and Mrs The Friends of the People had tion met every seven weeks, PortArchibald Charlotte, McLean, Islay. Bayview, MACLEOD—The death occurred by P. Beiresford Ellis in Hamilton, Ontario, on 11th MaclennanFebruary, 1970,(Mrs Macleod)of Jessie whoM. set up a special Committee of usually in the neighbourhood of singingwon the atGold the firstMedal attempt for solo at Waysto organise and- Meansthe rising. through The whichmain Glasgow,These frequentor in the meetings city itself. were the National Mod in Dingwall organiser'was Robert Watt, who considered necessary for the thein 1905.Glasgow She wasGaelic a member Musical of devisedEdinburgh a Castlescheme and tohold surprise it as “theUnited emancipation Scotsmen ofbelieved the country that Association. a first step in the insurrection. was at no great distance when GovanMiss Maclennanand brought was upborn there. in Prince Charlie’s Cairn at Amish, Stornoway provides a Beforeried out, the Watt, scheme David could Downie be car-and theystandard should of liberty.’.’ rally round the Both her paTents were from moving connection with the Culloden Information Centre others were arrested. Watt and From the National Convention Lewis. Her daughter, Jean (Mrs Downie were tried for high a seven-man executive committee andBetts), plays is thea professional harp. singer steadings of many traditional economic reasons. totreason death, and but bothWatt werealone sentenced suffered wasEvery elected. member of the United farm buildings. The main display in the death. Scotsmen had to take the Oath Old Leanach Cottage will information hall consists or . a From 1793 to 1794 rhe authori- of Secrecy — “In the aweful now assume the single role of series of panels dealing with theties Friendswere busy. of theTwo Peopleleaders hadof presence of God, I , do de- battlefield museum, and this Highland history. These have been tried and sentenced for high clareshall everthat induceneither me, punishmentsdirectly or Misc. will enable a more effective use been devised by the Committee, treason and 20 more sentened for indirectly, to inform or give to be made of the impressive and executed by Mr jim beensdition, charged while andmany sentenced others withhad evidence against any member or AN T-EILEANACH. Leabhran display of objects connected Nicholson, the Trust’s artist- a variety of “minor” offences. membersties for anyof thisact oror expressionsimilar socie- of miosail Eaglais Bhrearnaraigh — gu with the Battle which it con- designer. The necessary re- The last leader of the organisa- theirs done or made collectively bliadhnaleir ann o Anan t-Eileanach,Gaidhlig. Berneray,10/- sa tains. search was undertaken by Col. rald,tion toin be March tried was1794. Joseph who Ger-told or individually in or out of this Lochmaddy, North Uist. The information centre Taylor, Dr Jean Munro, and the court that it was “. . . soon societyof this inobligation. pursuance Soof thehelp spirit me houses a display which falls by members of the Committee, after the Union of England and God ! ” ATHLETE linguist trainee/ into two separate categories; notably Mr Iain Mackay. Scotland the people were deprived In some districts, such as Dun- partner, outdoor work, June-Sep- there is a smaller room in which Six coloured panels, each privileges.of some ofIt thewas nut'st from valuable that dee. the fees for membership t'embe.-. Cbntinent. or permanent. talks, illustrated by slides, will with a “ story line ” below, period that the greatest encroach- wereseemed only sufficient a penny,to pay butthe localthis Apply Box No. 12 Sruth. be given. The first of these tell in simple form the story of ments began to be made on pub- delgate Is 6d a day, plus travel- talks, recorded and electrically .the Gael from their arrival in lic liberty. But if that Union has ling expenses when away from operated, has been prepared by Scotland to the present day. operatedlet it 'be to therob objectus of ourto rights,regain work on the Society’s business. Gaelic the Trust’s Historian, Lieut. Beneath these a series of panels them.” Col. Iain Cameron Taylor, and expand and illustrate in greater Gerrald was sentenced to 14 Broadcasts tells the story of the Rising. detail the brief outline of his- years’soon aftertransportation, reaching Botany but Bay.died Duncan Logan Ltd. Thursday. 16th April The talk was specially recorded tory given above. restedWith andmost transported, of the leaders a great ar- 12 noon News in Gaelic by Mr Fred Macaulay. Further The remaining part of the blow was struck to the Republi- To Wind Up 12.05 p.m. DaFonn Cheathramh agus talks by Col.1 Taylor will be display ' covers a variety of can movement, and the Scottish (Continued from page 1) 7.30 p.m. V.H.F.; —in the High- a'dded to the programme. Highland interests, including leaders that were left realised the building of an avalanche lands An all sorts Admission to the lecture the work of the Board, of An that they would have to reform shelter at a cost of £84,000. magazine — comment, room entails a charge of 2s per Comunn Gaidhealach, and of followthe- movement. the exampleThey decidedof theto The firm are currently work- interview, music and visitor. This is necessarv for the Trust. United Irishmen’s organisation ing on the Inverinate-Dornie song from Gaeldom and the movement was renamed road at a cost of £576,000. A. (recorded) as the United Scotsmen. ookesman for the Scottish De- Friday, 17th April UnitedBy theScotsmen spring societiesof 1797 werethe velopment Department said yes- 12 noon News in Gaelic fully orgenised and ready. The terday that work is 98 per cent 7.30 p.m. CraozbhFlora MacNeill nan Ubhal: and over to you: tiesorganisation of not morewas thanbased 16on persons socie- completed. Other current road Angus MacLeod pre- with committees at parochial, projects are from Donnie to sentsongs theirfrom choice our tradi-of Countybers were and chargednational 6dlevel. on Mem-entry Balmacara—70 per cent com- tion. Taking part with Sir, — The article on turned its back on natures and monthly subscription was 3d. eted and costing £266,000— them: Bill Marshall and “Ecology — a New Religion” law of gradual growth and These sums were spent on pro- and from Loch Ness to Beauly Bobbycordeon MacLeod, (recorded) ac- ( makes some curious accusa- thus reaps the consequences land.pagandists, No branch who wastravelled permitted Scot- to —58 per cent completed and tions. It is not Christianity, of its folly. Celtic nations are costing £238,000. Sunday, 19th April but man’s neglect of Chris- supposed to be people who The largest of their new con- 3.00 p.m. StudioFather DonaldService byMac- Rev. tianity thgt is to blame for live close to nature and fhus gained from nostalgic yearn- tracts is for the £ 12-million Kinnon, Glasgow (re- not harmonising bodily with less exposed to be victims of ings for animism such as Foyers hydro-electric scheme. corded) spiritual needs. the vagaries of fashion in reverencing the “soul of In a consortium with Marples Nature is no contradiction which every generation tends rice” - and Druidical tree Ridgway, Logan’s are also Monday,12 noon 20thNews April in Gaelic to the supernatural, only to make tabula-rasa of the worslhip ? God infused spirit building the £6.5-million King- 12.05 p.m. Da Cheathramh agus the reverse side of the medal. preceeding one, forgetting into man not matter. ston Bridge over the Clyde. Fonn The Gospels as well as the that the Scriptures say: Yours etc., — ■ Tuesday, 21st April Old Testament are full of “Everything that is written IAN G. MACNAIR-SMITH, CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING RATE 12 noon News in Gaelic lessons and parables drawn was written for our benefit Conde de Penalaver, 1/9 per line—five words per line. 12.05 p.m. Da Cheathramh agus from nature, such as the and instruction.” If we con- 68-L dcha. Births, Marriages Deaths, In Mem- Fonn sower of seed, sorting out sider our ancestors are un- MADRID-6. oriam. County, Municipal, Legal 3.45 p.m. Cur is Dluth: Among the good from the bad fishes, civilized barbarians, and take and all Public Notices. the Gaels with Neil the wheat and the cockle, it for granted that everything DID YOU, atFraser. current Topic: affairs A inlook the the lilies of the field etc. is better now', we are acting DO YOU, ADVERTISEMENTS for Highlands. My District: Besides, Christ speaks of the with Pharisaical ingratitude WILL YOU, SRUTH are accepted only Hugh MacKinnon talks “temple of his body” (“De- to which Oriental ancestor on conditions that the about the Island of Eigg stroy this temple, and in “worship” is almost prefer- Wear the Kilt? advertiser does not in any Wednesday, 22nd April three days I shall rebuild it”). able if it means respect and Please write to — way contravene the pro- 12 noon News in Gaelic What has occurred is that humility. What is to be. DAVID A. TAYLOR visions of the Trade 6.15 p.m. Pipes and Drums by mankind in its fickleness for 100 Coldharbour Road Descriptions Act, 1968. Polkemmet Pipe Band, a change, and novelty has (Continued on next column) Bristol BS 675 B. BarnesPipe-Major (recorded) John A.