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http://109.74.200.198/scottish-gaelic-studies-in-the-diaspora-isnt-nova-scotia-doing-this/ Sat, 21 Jan 2017 20:38:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 http://109.74.200.198/scottish-gaelic-studies-in-the-diaspora-isnt-nova-scotia-doing-this/#comment-2868 Goiridh Domhnullach Mon, 24 Aug 2015 01:43:06 +0000 http://www.scotclans.com/?p=55898#comment-2868 This may be of interest to you:
In 1919, Comunn Gaidhealach Caitligeach Chanada (the Scottish Catholic Society of Canada) was formed in Chirstmas Island. Too bad that they didn’t label it, more correctly translated from the Gaelic, the Gaelic Catholic Society of Canada.The main push of this body was to motivate people to keep up their faith, language and culture, to stay in the rural communities, farm more efficiently and be more self-sufficient. Through the 1920s, they published the magazine, “Am Mosgladh” (The Awakening). The articles are in both english and Gaelic. You can access them on-line here. Have a read and discover what some of the leaders of the Gaels in NS were saying in the 1920s. I believe that this movement greatly influenced the beginning of the StFX Extension Department and The Antigonish Movement. Unfortunately, the main driver in this organization, Fr. Donald MacAdam, who was the first to teach Gaelic at StFX in 1891, died in 1926 and I think that this took a lot of momentum away from the movement. Throughout the Diocese of Antigonish (Mainland Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island) there were branches of the society. Glendale, Cape Breton had the “Montrose Branch” until 1929 at least.
http://novascotia.ca/archives/virtual/newspapers/results.asp?nTitle=Mosgladh

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