The Cornish Language Partnership Teams Up with Scotland's Bord na Gaidhlig

Submitted by Niall McCarsten on March 15, 2014 - 1:18pm

The Cornish Language Partnership (MAGA) have announced their annual conference.  In a gesture of Pan Celtic unity, MAGA have invited a representative of Scotland's Bord na Gaidhlig to share the Bord's learning's gained in their efforts to restore Scottish Gaelic to it's rightful place in Scotland.  MAGA defines itself as follows on thier web page: " The Partnership includes language organisations, local authorities and a number of other organisations who have come together with the aim of promoting Cornish and developing it further in Cornish life. The programme of work it is undertaking is funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government and by Cornwall Council." 

With a similar mission, the Bord na Gaidhlig gives us the following from it's web site: "The Bord na Gaidhlig, works to promote Gaelic in Scotland in partnership with the Scottish Government, the people of Scotland and Gaelic organisations to improve the status of the Gaelic tongue throughout Scotland."  The Bord na Gaidhlig was established under Scotland's Gaelic Language Act of 2005 which extends to the Bord a principal role in the advancement of the Celtic tongue of Scotland.  

The following is the text of the MAGA announcement.  Further information can be obtained using the link to the MAGA homepage provided below:

" We’ll be reviewing the past year, looking at what has happened and what has been done by all the organisations in the Partnership and reflecting on where we are. We will also be setting out the plans for the next three years for the Partnership and unveiling some new and exciting projects and initiatives. Will Coleman will be joining us to talk about the Plen an Gwari project and we’ll be discussing what you think the priorities should be for the future.

Our keynote speaker is Brian O hEadhra, from Bord na Gaidhlig in Inverness, who will be talking about language and culture and how cultural projects working with Gaelic in Scotland have promoted the language, giving us food for thought for development in Cornwall. In addition there will be a session on promotion and how we get the messages out in Cornwall and beyond – and how we can do it better! "

 

http://www.magakernow.org.uk/default.aspx?page=910

http://www.gaidhlig.org.uk/index-en.php

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