Tommy Macdonald of Howmore in South Uist delivers a Gaelic guided tour of the old chapels and graveyard, dating at least as far back as the 9th Century, and shares some stories about the burial practices which continued into living memory.
As a well-known and respected local historian Tommy has been the central linking figure over the last couple of years in creating a series of clips looking at local “taighean is tobhtaichean” (houses and ruins), recording stories associated with them, and talking to some of the people with experience of living in taighean-tughaidh (thatched houses) in particular. These have been gathered together in our special “Taighean-tughaidh Uibhist” YouTube playlist, to which this latest recording has also been added.
This recording, like the others, has been made in Tommy’s good South Uist Gaelic. But it’s definitely not an exercise in the exclusion of learners or non-speakers of the language. Same language Closed Caption (CC) subtitles are available at the click of a YouTube button, and viewers on a laptop or desktop computer will also be able to access automatic translation into English and other languages through the settings wheel.
You can also choose to slow down the video without altering the pitch of his voice through the same mechanism. And learners may further choose to follow the wordlinked transcript with the video embedded on the Clilstore platform: https://multidict.net/cs/12419.