Galway Bay Fm newsroom-Tentative moves were made this week to establish relationships between the Gallic organisations in Nova Scotia in Canada and the Connemara Gaeltacht.
The Director of the Gallic Office in the provincial Government of Nova Scotia, Lewis McKinnon, made contacts with organisations west of the Corrib during a visit to the area.
50,000 people from the Scottish Highlands and Islands emigrated to Nova Scotia in the latter part of the 18th Century and the first half of the 19th Century.
At that time, they were mostly speakers of Scottish Gallic – a close linguistic relation of Gaeilge …the Irish language.
These people created the bedrock for the substantial section of the Nova Scotia community that trace their roots back to Scotland.
A Gallic Affairs Office was created by the Government of Nova Scotia in 1996 and its role is to foster Gallic and the culture associated with it.
It’s Director, Lewis McKinnon, visited Údarás na Gaeltachta, Roinn na Gaeltachta, the Irish Language Commisioners Office, Muintearas in Tír an Fhia and the Emigrants Commemorative Centre project in Carna this week.
It is hoped that the visit will pave the way for further links between Nova Scotia and the Connemara Gaeltacht, in the future.
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