Gaelic focus of Island Echoes this eve
John Alick MacPherson, native Gaelic speaker and author, editor, translator, will be the featured guest on CBC Radio One Cape Breton’s Island Echoes this evening (Sept. 7, 2013).
John Alick is just back from a successful book launch and tour in Scotland promoting two new Celtic/Gaelic studies books from CBU Press.
Be sure to be listening for a surprising new initiative on the part of CBC Cape Breton. Island Echoes airs Saturdays, 8-9 p.m. (Atlantic)
John Alick MacPherson, along with Michael Linkletter (Chair, Celtic Studies, St. Francis Xavier University), has just released a collection of the writings of Rev. Duncan B. Blair (1815-1893) from Mac-Talla, the 19th-century Gaelic newspaper out of Sydney, Cape Breton. Fògradh, Fàisneachd, Filidheachd / Parting, Prophecy, Poetry was launched August 9 in Helmsdale, Scotland (link here to more about the book tour) and is making its way into Canadian bookstores in the comings days.
Also launched on that tour was Bearing the People Away: The Portable Highland Clearances Companion, by June Skinner Sawyers.