Gaelic College of Cape Breton Combines Gaelic Language Instruction and Celtic Mythology

The Cape Breton Post website, under the headline "Gaelic Immersion Will Meet Halloween" reports that instructors at the Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts "..will guide Gaelic language students through a series of lessons that remind of the importance of Halloween known as Oidhche Shamhna, in the Gaelic calendar."  Halloween, also known as the Celtic Feast day of Samhain, is rooted in Celtic Mythology and pre-christian Celtic religious practice. A time when the Otherworld opens and Faeries are said to roam and a time of danger for mortals.  Or in the words of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns (1759-1796): "Upon That Night, When Faeries Light." 

This workshop, part of the continuing education offered by the College, will combine Gaelic language immersion with sessions on "Pibroch", an elaborate form of Piping whose roots lie deep in the history of the Highlands and which has been referred to as "sophisticated and hypnotic music from the golden age of Gaelic speaking Scotland", and in "Puirt-a-Beul", a traditional form of song native to the Goidelic speaking Celtic nations.

The Gaelic College, internationally renowned and the only institution of its kind in North America, offers programs in tradtional Scottish disciplines including Gaelic language and song, music, dance and crafts. 

http://gaeliccollege.edu/about.html

http://www.capebretonpost.com/News/Local/2013-09-05/article-3375608/Halloween-immersion-sessions-at-St-Anns-Gaelic-College/1

http://www.robinsonmcclellan.com/pibrochrecitals.htm