Adam Robertson spoke with Gaelic singer and Outlander's language consultant Gillebrìde MacMillan on the 10 things that changed his life.
It’s the language I spoke growing up. I had no English going to school and its given me so many opportunities in life. Sometimes you hear people say that a minority language or a minoritized language would keep you back but for me and for so many people it’s the exact opposite.
It’s great to get so many people coming to South Uist in the summer. They’ve got a fantastic new building which is now an arts community centre so it’s an economic driver as well.I came to the University of Glasgow in 1996 as a very quiet, shy student. I studied Gaelic and geography so that’s my degree. Then in 2010 I came back and got a job at the University of Glasgow part-time but I’ve actually been working there ever since.
I’ve walked the Camino de Santiago, learned Galician, learnt Spanish, fell in love with the music and my wife is Galician. My children are half-Galician, half-Scottish. It’s incredible what one negative thing like redundancy can have on your life. Galway in many ways again changed the course of my life in terms of singing. I was often asked to sing at music sessions or singing sessions and they’d say, ‘oh you’re Scottish, sing us a song’ and then the next week they’d ask for another one.
For me it’s really important that people feel a connection to you because of the way you sang a particular song. It’s what you want as a musician or a singer.This was around 2008 or 2009 I think. It was basically a Eurovision-style contest but for Celtic languages. So there was Gaelic, Welsh and so on. It was arranged by Brian O’ h-Eadhra, who is a musician based in Inverness but originally from Ireland.
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