Twitter Digest for Week Ending 1st June 2009
by GSI Online News Team
- RT @CroftingLaw Newcastle University: Draft Bill points to bright future for crofting
http://z.pe/5uC # - RT @CroftingLaw Scottish Government Public Meeting on Crofting Reform Bill: 1 June (7.30pm – 9.00pm): Kirkwall, Orkney (Picaquoy Centre) #
- RT @CroftingLaw Scottish Government Public Meeting on Crofting Reform Bill: 2 June (7.30pm – 9.00pm): Lerwick, Shetland (The Town Hall) #
- RT @CroftingLaw Scottish Gov Public Meeting on Crofting Reform Bill: 29 June (7.30pm – 9.00pm): Stornoway, Isle of Lewis (Cabarfeidh Hotel) #
- RT @CroftingLaw Scottish Government Public Meeting on Crofting Reform Bill: 30 June (7.30pm–9.00pm): Tarbert, Isle of Harris (Harris Hotel) #
- RT @CroftingLaw Scottish Government Public Meeting on Reform Bill: 1 July (7.30pm–9.00pm): Lioncleit, Isle of Benbecula (Dark Island Hotel) #
- RT @CroftingLaw Scottish Government Public Meeting on Crofting Reform Bill: 1 June (7.30pm – 9.00pm): Kirkwall, Orkney (Picaquoy Centre) #
- RT @CroftingLaw Scottish Government Public Meeting on Crofting Reform Bill: 8 June (7.30pm – 9.00pm): Inverness (Craigmonie Hotel) #
- RT @CroftingLaw Scottish Government Public Meeting on Crofting Reform Bill: 3 June (7.30pm – 9.00pm): Mid Yell, Shetland (Community Hall) #
- RT @CroftingLaw Scottish Government Public Meeting on Crofting Reform Bill: 9 June (7.30pm–9.00pm): Lairg (Lairg Community Association Hall) #
- RT @CroftingLaw Scottish Government Public Meeting on Crofting Reform Bill: 16 June (7.30pm–9.00pm) Broadford, Skye (Broadford Village Hall) #
- RT @CroftingLaw Scottish Government Public Meeting on Crofting Reform Bill: 10 June (7.30pm – 9.00pm): Durness (Durness Village Hall) #
- RT @CroftingLaw Scottish Government Public Meeting on Crofting Reform Bill: 17 June (7.30pm – 9.00pm): Fort William (Lochabra Hall, High St) #
- RT @CroftingLaw Scottish Government Public Meeting on Crofting Reform Bill: 24 June (7.30pm – 9.00pm): Brodick, Isle of Arran #
- RT @CroftingLaw Scottish Government Public Meeting on Crofting Reform Bill: 22 June (7.30pm – 9.00pm): Tiree Rural Centre (Crospol) #
- RT @spancha: FiOS” stands for “Fiber Optic Service.” fios is a Gaelic word, tran… Read More: http://is.gd/D99y #
- Newsteam Tweets for 2009-05-24 http://bit.ly/18oPuZ #
- RT @CEUig Half of Western Isles primary schools threatened with closure http://is.gd/D9a8 (not Uig – we’re too far away from everywhere) #
- RT @CEUig Gaelic rights, banking and the wild west (of Scotland) http://is.gd/DaTj #
- Sgoil Shamhraidh Drama Team 2009 Announced
http://z.pe/4dR # - Calum Nicolson (Calum Beag)
http://z.pe/4dS # - RT @CEUig 1960s films of Lewis shown at Borve (26 May) and Ness (28 May) free with tea, c/o MG Alba http://is.gd/Dqrp #
- “The Decline of Gaelic” (Blog Post)
http://tr.im/mm29 # - RT @TM_Entertain YouTube – Gaelic Song : The Rankin Family: Gillean Mo Run http://tinyurl.com/pzs8ps (via @TheRankinFiles) #
- West Over Sea, DDC Pochin Mould
http://z.pe/5Zg # - RT @CEUig The Uig Landscape – http://is.gd/EtIz #
- RT @CEUig MSP raises concerns about ‘Trojan Horse” and poll taxes in new draft crofting bill http://is.gd/EAo4 #
- RT @CEUig RT tiny little bit of island life @dunringle http://chirb.it/7tatgk #
- RT @CEUig A cure for rheumatism: sealskin and tar (in Gaelic) http://chirb.it/e5vsk6 and here’s the story http://is.gd/EFy7 #
- Looking at: “FILE Magazine – The Collection – Celtic Step Dance” (http://twitthis.com/bb66pg) #
- Major Photographic Competition Captures the Life of the Gael
http://z.pe/5Zl # - RT @wodieskodie RT @generalassembly GA agrees to recognise desire of Scottish Bible Society to make Gaelic Scriptures more accessible. #
- How a Bunch of Bankers Failed to Stop Michael’s Gaelic Cheques
http://tr.im/mtxU # - RT @bbcscotland Aid for Bonnie Prince Charlie arrived too late http://tinyurl.com/rbpexn #
- HIE Launches Three-Year Gaelic Plan
http://z.pe/5Zq # - Newsteam Tweets for 2009-05-26 http://bit.ly/XlSnB #
- Peats on the Dromannan
http://tr.im/mwj7 # - RT @Rabbies_Travel Todays Gaelic phrase is “Maduinn Mhath” – Good morning! Lots of happy tourists away to Skye today in sunshine – perfect! #
- HIE Foillseachadh Plana Gàidhlig Trì Bliadhna / HIE Launches Three-Year Gaelic Plan
http://bit.ly/16G7KN # - RT @bbcscotland More than 50,000 people expected to attend two piping events being held in Glasgow this summer. http://tinyurl.com/oyrajj #
- RT @ScotEduNews up-date: The 2007 SSA Gaelic-medium Science Survey http://tinyurl.com/q3lkuw #
- Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/OuterHebrides to join #
- RT @bbcscotland: Western Isles NHS says it has fresh demands on its budgets because of holiday cover [...]
http://tinyurl.com/o9dlv2 # - RT @CEUig The Megantic Outlaw: the Show, in Uig Hall on 14 July – http://shar.es/0laa #
- Scholar Acknowledged By Bòrd Na Gàidhlig With Award
http://tr.im/mDGW # - First Airmail Service Celebrated
http://tr.im/mDHm # - RT @ScotsterPulse wyckedwynch posted her comments on ‘Gaelic Learning Materials’ http://bit.ly/5NjI5 #
- RT @CEUig Archaeologists, Jacobites and Lady Grange’s kidnapping and exile on St Kilda http://is.gd/I0vU. More background http://is.gd/I0AI #
- “Fragile” communities in remote and rural parts of Scotland are to see a share of more than £220m of government funding.
http://tr.im/mEON # - Gaelic Teacher Shortage ‘Crisis’
http://tr.im/mLh5 # - “Does she know the word ‘Tory’ is derived from the Gaelic word meaning robber?”
http://tr.im/mLhk # - RT @CEUig http://twitpic.com/66dfu – The Lady Who Was Married Three Times, from Cnip/Kneep (or Snip, as a visitor called it the other day.) #
- Photo by @asgerd: “Friday | May 29, 2009 | 12:19 am”
http://bit.ly/fQSX4 # - Photo by @asgerd: “Friday | May 29, 2009 | 12:22 am”
http://bit.ly/3osqO # - Photo by @asgerd: “Friday | May 29, 2009 | 12:23 am”
http://bit.ly/9wQLk # - RT @ForArgyll http://timesurl.at/501c2a > Newsletter No 3 from mygaelic.com #
- RT @FacalAnLatha Dè thuirt thu?: expression meaning ‘What did you say?’ in Scottish Gaelic #
- “The first Gaelic Plan for Scotland has been launched by the Highlands and Islands Enterprise.”
http://tinyurl.com/lcnnar # - RT @CroftingLaw RT @hilabour: Crofting Bill raises more questions than answers
http://tr.im/mUQC # - RT @CroftingLaw The Herald: Millionaire producer to reopen land battle with elderly crofter
http://tr.im/mUQu # - RT @ForArgyll http://timesurl.at/e7d17b > Highland Chief meets Northern Belle #
- RT @CEUig Na Mo Chuid Aodaich: Hebridean 20th century ?fashion, pics from the Leurbost show: http://is.gd/KQhw #
- ForArgyll MyGaelic Thread Comes Back to Life
http://z.pe/4fP
(via Gurn Gàidhlig at http://z.pe/617) # - RT @CEUig Uig Museum now open Mon-Sat, 12-5, for the rest of the season. #
- RT @tweeddelights http://twitpic.com/6ecrx – and the view out the back today for @hen4
# - Language Teaching ‘Lets Down Scotland’
http://tr.im/n4RH #