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Thread #48837   Message #739000
Posted By: GUEST,Philippa
28-Jun-02 - 03:25 PM
Thread Name: Help: Gaelic Scotland, As others see us!
Subject: RE: Help: Gaelic Scotland, As others see us!
Séamus, who teaches geography and French at an Irish-medium secondary school (all subjects except English & French are taught through the medium of Irish) in Northern Ireland, told me of difficulty in finding Gaelic books in Edinburgh. Séamus went into Waterstones, a very large book shop centrally located in the capital city of Scotland. He asked the assistant where the Scottish Gaelic books were kept. She brought him to a section of Scottish literature and picked out a book of Robert Burns and asked him if that was the sort of thing he was looking for. Séamus explained again that he was looking for books in the Gaelic language. She said he should look upstairs in the "Foreign Language" section.