Head of BBCGaelic Services and Inclusion... Monday 23 February marks the start of World Gaelic Week, a fun-filled week of activities to draw the attention of the wider world to the language of the Gaels ... Gaelic permeates my being completely.
There is no keeping a lid on it now, no putting the genie back in the bottle. The finger in the air, the outstretched tongue, the smile, the exuberance of it all. The brilliance of it all ... But he was only getting started ... Photograph. Tom Maher/Inpho.
“Thirty-Two Words for Field” is a book of considerable scholarship, irresistible to any linguist or philologist, and a rich and compelling immersion in language ... .