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One irony is that in Scotland it is the Presbyterian church that has done most to keep Gaelic alive, while across the Irish Sea the Ulster Presbyterians see measures to promote Irish Gaelic as a threat.

As you can here on the video above, it is a strange, almost unearthly, sound, yet it conjures up the Hebridean landscape like nothing else. The loss of this form of psalm singing would be sad indeed. The deep spiritual connection it has with its people and the role which music plays in this, must be recognised and supported into the future if we are to keep some of the most precious aspects of Gaelic culture alive. English language services tend to have predominantly English singing, although there may be an occasional Gaelic psalm or hymn among them. Today, Gaelic services are few and far between in Hebridean parishes and those still taking place have reduced hugely in numbers. This singing, in its traditional context, has become critically endangered. In those days, churches were filled with hundreds of people gathered to take part in this singing tradition. The precentor calls out the line, which the congregation then sings back to him.įrances Wilkins, writing for The Conversation today, says:įifty years ago, Gaelic psalmody was a soundscape to a way of life in the Presbyterian Hebridean communities and the only form of musical worship heard in churches. Gaelic psalm singing is a wonderful relic of a pre-literature culture.

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