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              1 · Ògmh. · 2026 · Nº 008
            

A daily current for the Scottish Gael — and anyone eavesdropping.

Fàilte

Fàilte dhan Ògmhios!

Well, here we are.

The sun is allegedly out. Na meanbh-chuileagan are filing flight plans. Half of the diaspora is standing in a queue for an ice cream, and somebody, somewhere, has already declared that this is definitely the summer.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are wondering where May went.

One minute we were launching sruth. and hoping a few people might stumble across it. The next, thousands of readers appeared from across Alba, Èirinn, Canada, America, Astràilia, Sealainn Nuadh, and every other corner of the diaspora where someone has ever looked at a map of Scotland and thought, "Aye, that's probably my lot."

Tha sinn air leth taingeil dhuibh uile.

June promises more words, more music, more cartoons, more beautiful chaos, and almost certainly at least one editorial decision that will seem sensible at two o'clock in the morning and deeply questionable by breakfast.

Uill, co-dhiù..., grab a tea, cupa cofaidh, or whatever remedy you're currently using to recover from the weekend, and join us for another month in the sruth.

Tha an samhradh air tòiseachadh, 's dòcha.

Pass the sunscreen... agus geansaidh.

The Best of May 2026

Well. That escalated quickly.

A few weeks ago we launched sruth. expecting a handful of curious Gaelic learners and perhaps the occasional insomniac from Nova Scotia.

Instead, thousands of you arrived and immediately began discussing stràcan, metalcore, dogs, ball coise, and whether the editors of sruth. were mentally stable. Uill... tha an diùaidh a-muigh fhathast (Well, it hasn't turned yet. (The Jury is still out!)

Looking back at May, three stories stood above the rest: a cautionary tale about where to put your stràc at a fèis, Gun Ghaol proving that Gàidhlig and metal belong together after all, and Àdhamh Lees luring us in with a tractor before spending an entire podcast talking about dogs.

Frankly, we couldn't be happier.

Sin agaibh e — The Best of May 2026.

From Issue #6 of Sruth

AIMHREIT GHLIC

Aimhreit Ghlic: Fèis no Feis?

Tha iad ag ràdh gur ann anns na rudan beaga a tha an diofar. This month's most popular Aimhreit Ghlic proved the point rather spectacularly.

A single missing stràc turned an innocent trip to a fèis into something rather different entirely. It's a mistake every Gaelic learner is capable of making — though, le beagan deagh fhortan, not in quite such memorable circumstances.

Part language lesson, part cautionary tale, and gu math èibhinn from beginning to end, it's a reminder that in Gàidhlig even the smallest mark on the page can make a very big difference.

Bi faiceallach far an cuir thu do stràcan. You never know where they'll lead. 😏

From Issue #7

For years we've been told that Gàidhlig belongs in the quiet past or melodic folk\trad tunes, maybe the village hall with the local choir attempting Cànan Nan Gàidhlig for the umpteenth time. (What's the Gàidhlig for umpteenth?)

Gun Ghaol politely disagrees. Loudly!

Their anthem Gun Alba was one of May's most popular stories in sruth. Here was Gàidhlig delivered through pounding drums, distorted guitars, and primal screams that would frighten the picts. And one of the best music videos ever thrown together.

Dè th'ann nach còradh riut? What's not to like?

From Issue #6

Barrachd Fiosrachaidh

We still have Einnsean, tractar agus bhan rattling around our skulls... Èist - chì thu.

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A First Look — Just for Sruth Readers

Mòrag Toney -

Mòrag came down to New York from Pictou County for nursing school and found no reason to go home, which by default gave her every reason to stay. She works the floor of an ER, which suits her, because the ER drowns out the world. Chaos, noise, life or death situations — survive this and you can survive whatever you've got going on underneath. Mòrag thrives when everything is on fire and burns when it's not.

She made it possible for Sìne to move to NYC from Scotland. They met in a Gàidhlig chat room and now they share a flat in Astoria. Mòrag pays the larger half of everything and says nothing about it.

You'll get a wrong impression of her at first. Most people do. Na toir breith ro luath.

Mention Canada in the wrong light and find out.

Seumas MacRath -

Seumas grew up in Kearny, alongside Brìde who lived 3 blocks away from him. He played ball-còise in Soccer Town, USA. Did not go as far as his father's dreams were thought to take him, but Seumas recovered and moved on. He's now famous in the Ironbound for his drumming and laying whisky down at Scancy's. Brìde lives 3 doors down at the St. Seòras. Bràthair is piuthar — brother and sister — without the family ties and headaches.

Together Mòrag agus Seumas round out the cast of Crois-rathaid — the group of Gàidhlig speaking friends from the outer boroughs of NYC that will be the centerpiece of an exciting new Gàidhlig learning series brought to you from the folks at globalceilidh.com.

Seo Mòrag

Seo Seumas

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