Re: Gaelic names for Ladies

The Highlander wrote:
I never knew that two of Flora MacDonald's sons are buried at Flora
MacDonald College in Red Springs, North Carolina, although I knew that
she and her husband had liv ed there for some year until the American
Revolution persuaded them to return to Scotland, as, like many
Highlanders. the last civil war they had lived through which ended on
Culloden Moor decided them never to be part of one again.

Thus the famous protector of Bonnie Prince Charlie went home to her
native Western Isles where she died on Skye in 1790, her funeral at
Kilmuir attended by over 3,000 people, leaving her children buried far
away in North Carolina.

It was the Englishman Doctor Johnson who wrote the epitaph inscribed
on her tombstone - Quantum cedat virtutibus aurum - with virtue
weighed, what worthless trash is gold." Fionnghal NicDhòmhnaill as she
is called in Gaelic - a Highland heroine that all little Highland
girls admire and want to grow up to be like.

Just a quick update for your files, kind sir:

The site of the college is now the Flora MacDonald Academy, but it
still continues many of the Scottish traditions the college itself had
long been known for. The college was affiliated with the Presbyterian
church and is located in an area (two hours away from my home county)
primarily settled by Scots and largely inhabited by their descendants.
Here's their "Alma Mater" courtesy of a friend of one of my sisters:

"Proud of our heritage, we face now the future
Our lives blessed by the training received on her campus
We stand now united to honor her name
As molders of patterns and aims that shall last."

Feast your eyes on shots from the annual Flora MacDonald Scottish Games
(first weekend in October) including (as the photographer says) "a
gratutious pretty girl shot" of one of the Clan Buchanan (seems to be a
lot of them folk in that neck of the woods)

http://www.elohi.com/photo/scotland/redsprings.html

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I think it is time we revised the names of people posting here. I
think every Scot should have a Gaelic version of their names as do the
Irish. Thus:

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Sìne Mairead Laight (straight translation, no Gaelic equivalent)

say Sheena My-Rit Lay-gh-k

Jane-Margaret-Laight.mp3

Math dha rireabh! Moran tang!

mar sin leat

Sine Mairead


The Highlander

Faodaidh nach ionann na beachdan anns
an pòst seo agus beachdan a' Ghàidheil.
The views expressed in this post are
not necessarily those of The Highlander.
Ag amas air adhartas ann an Gàidhlig.
Aiming for advancement in the Gaelic.

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