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Inverness Whisky Festival, Highlands of Scotland. Image Name: Inverness Whisky Festival, Highlands of Scotland. Description: Inverness Whisky Festival, Inverness, Highlands of Scotland. Musician and renowned fiddle player, Iain Macfarlane playing in the Market bar during the Festival's Magical Mystery Whisky Tour.
THE LOCH NESS HIGHLAND GATHERING, HIGHLAND. Image Name: THE LOCH NESS HIGHLAND GATHERING, HIGHLAND. Description: A DETAIL OF THE LEGS OF TWO YOUNG GIRLS PARTICIPATING IN A SCOTTISH HIGHLAND DANCING EVENT AT THE LOCH NESS HIGHLAND GATHERING, HELD ANNUALLY AT DRUMNADROCHIT, HIGHLAND. Copyright: PIC: P.TOMKINS/VisitScotland

Seo sraith faoi mhórfhéilte na gCeilteach le Máiréad Uí Dhomhnaill – An tOireachtas in Éirinn, An Mòd in Albain agus An Eisteddfod sa Bhreatain Bheag.  Thug Máiréad cuairt ar na féilte agus tá na cosúlachtaí agus na difríochtaí a bhaineann leo a gcíoradh agus á gceiliúradh sna cláracha seo.  Inniu, beidh sí ag an Mòd in Albain.  Bunaíodh an Mòd in Oban i 1891, agus déanann sé ceiliúradh ar chultúr agus ar theanga na nGael.  Bíonn comórtais agus imeachtaí éagsúla ar bun mar chuid den bhféile, ceol, amhráin, damhsa, ceol uirlise, dráma, spórt agus litríocht ina measc.  Cloisfimid míreanna ó chuid de na comórtais sin sa chlár inniu, ina measc córacha, cantaireacht sailm agus amhráin luadhaidh.   Cloisfimid agallamh le Bláthaid Ó Brádaigh, atá ina teachta bráithreachais ón Oireachtas, faoi na cosúlachtaí agus na difríochtaí idir na féilte.  Beidh agallamh le Stiúrthóir na Féile Iain Morrison agus leis an gceoltóir Briain Ó hEadhra, ar seoladh albam nua lena ghrúpa CRANN ag an bhféile.  Léiríodh an tsraith seo le maoiniú ón Scéim Fís agus Fuaim de chuid Údarás Craolacháin na hÉireann.

This series by Máiréad Uí Dhomhnaill focuses on the three major Celtic festivals – An tOireachtas in Ireland, the Mòd in Scotland and the Eisteddfod in Wales.  Máiréad visited the three festivals and the similarities and differences between them are discussed and celebrated in these programmes.  Today, Máiréad is at the Mòd in Scotland.  This festival was established in Oban in 1891, and celebrates the Gaelic linguistic and cultural heritage.  With a range of competitions, including music and song, highland dancing, instrumental, drama, sport and literature, the festival attracts a large crowd every year.  Today on the show, we’ll hear extracts from some of the competitions, including the choral singing, psalms, and waulking songs.  We’ll hear an interview with Bláthnaid Ó Brádaigh, who is an ambassador from the Oireachtas festival in Ireland, about the similarities and the differences between the festivals.  There’ll be an interview with the festival director Iain Morrison, and with musician Briain Ó hEadhra, a member of the group CRANN, who launched an album at the festival. This series was produced with funding from the BAI’s Sound and Vision scheme.