Talk:Galwegian Gaelic

Galloway Gaelic Conference 8 September 2018
Did anyone who edits this page attend the one day 'Galloway: Gaelic's Lost Province' conference held in New Galloway 8 September 2018? This was the running order: Welcome: Professor Ted Cowan ‘Kirk, Kil and the Gaelicisation of Galloway’ Professor Thomas Clancy ‘Gaelic influence across the Solway in the medieval period’ Dr Fiona Edmonds ‘The origins of the Galloway Cenéla’ Dr Donald McWhannell ‘Òran Bagraidh and Willie Matheson‘ Ronnie Black ‘Kindreds and Ceathramh; Gaelic social and economic structures in Medieval Galloway’ Professor Richard Oram ‘Galloway Gaelic: Law and Society’ Professor Hector MacQueen ‘Looking for the Gaidhealtachd; identifying Gaels in the historical record 1560-1700’ Dr Aonghas Maccoinnich ‘The Gaelic of Galloway’ Professor Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh ‘Gaelic to Scots transition in Galloway’ Alistair Livingston Concluding remarks Professor Ted Cowan Alistairliv (talk) 21:06, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Dubious claim of 18th-century demise
Presently, the text says: It is safe to say, though, that the Galwegian language died out somewhere between 1700 and 1800. Not only is this inappropriately unencyclopedic wording (a bad sign right off the bat), and there is no source for this claim (or for much of a damn' thing else in this entire erstwhile article), I've recently (last few weeks) run across credible sources saying that at least pockets of Gaelic speaking survived in Galloway into the 19th century. I'll dig this up again as time permits (it wasn't something I was actively looking for, so I did not take extensive notes on it, but I'm pretty certain I made a short annotation in one file or another, so it should not be too hard to find again). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  02:45, 14 May 2024 (UTC)