Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago
Gaelic writer and Edinburgh resident Martin MacIntyre talks to Gordon Wells. In Part 4, still discussing Gaelic’s minority status in Edinburgh, Martin suggests the evident multicultural milieu may in some ways and in some situations make it comparatively easy to mount Gaelic events, while also noting that he perceives a move towards more specifically Gaelic activities among Gaelic communities. He goes on to describe the inspiration he has derived from other minority language contexts, particularly Catalan and Welsh, and his collaborative work with poets in those languages in one of his latest books.
This film contributes to a small collection which forms one part of an extension series of the Island Voices project, in which its "capture and curation" model is used for more languages in addition to English and Gaelic.
The Martin MacIntyre Collection:
Gael in Edinburgh documentary in four languages –
Gaelic youtu.be/b8VHM1hN1gA
English youtu.be/DQUypf4DZGI
Catalan youtu.be/uftWdspWfr8
Welsh youtu.be/l1xlfT_2j8s
Conversation –
Full Version youtu.be/3IZr9MpdaiY
Short Cuts guthan.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/martin-short-cuts-pdf.pdf
Poetry –
Canaidh youtu.be/V-R3EYZxjo0
Foghar Dhùn Èideann youtu.be/IY8KhBLQMB0
Litearras san Smior youtu.be/QxKBK7krLfE
Further background:
About Island Voices/Guthan nan Eilean:
guthan.wordpress.com/about
Gaelic writer and Edinburgh resident Martin MacIntyre talks to Gordon Wells. In Part 4, still discussing Gaelic’s minority status in Edinburgh, Martin suggests the evident multicultural milieu may in some ways and in some situations make it comparatively easy to mount Gaelic events, while also noting that he perceives a move towards more specifically Gaelic activities among Gaelic communities. He goes on to describe the inspiration he has derived from other minority language contexts, particularly Catalan and Welsh, and his collaborative work with poets in those languages in one of his latest books.
This film contributes to a small collection which forms one part of an extension series of the Island Voices project, in which its "capture and curation" model is used for more languages in addition to English and Gaelic.
The Martin MacIntyre Collection:
Gael in Edinburgh documentary in four languages –
Gaelic youtu.be/b8VHM1hN1gA
English youtu.be/DQUypf4DZGI
Catalan youtu.be/uftWdspWfr8
Welsh youtu.be/l1xlfT_2j8s
Conversation –
Full Version youtu.be/3IZr9MpdaiY
Short Cuts guthan.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/martin-short-cuts-pdf.pdf
Poetry –
Canaidh youtu.be/V-R3EYZxjo0
Foghar Dhùn Èideann youtu.be/IY8KhBLQMB0
Litearras san Smior youtu.be/QxKBK7krLfE
Further background:
About Island Voices/Guthan nan Eilean:
guthan.wordpress.com/about
