An Comunn Gàidhealach Publications > Gaidheal > Volume 30, October 1934--September 1935

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AN GAIDHEAL
An Dudlachd, 1934.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Executive Council of An
Comunn Gaidhealach was held in the Waverley
Hotel, Stirling, on Friday, 23rd November.
Mr. John R. Bannerman, President, presided,
and the following members were present :■—
Rev. John Bain, Edinburgh; John M. Bannerman,
B. Sc., Balmaha; W. D. Barclay, Glasgow; Mrs.
Barron, Glasgow; Miss K. B. Cameron, Glasgow;
Miss Campbell of Inverneill, M.B.E., Ardrishaig;
Charles Campbell, M.B.E., Glasgow; Capt. George
I. Campbell, Yr. of Succoth; Mrs. J. R. Colquhoun,
Glasgow ; Alex. D. Gumming, Callander ; Mrs. Morag
C. Edgar, Greenock ; Alexander Fraser, Bishopton ;
Niall C. Kennedy, Scotstoun ; Miss Lament of Knock-
dow; Rev. Alexander MacDonald, M.A., Glasgow;
Donald MacDonald, Inverness; John MacDonald,
M. A., Glasgow; Col. Kenneth Macdonald of Tote,
D. S.O.; Hector MacDougall, Glasgow; Sir Alexander
N. MacEwen, Inverness; Miss Ann MacGillivray,
Glasgow ; Gilbert MacIntyre, Killin ; John MacIntyre,
Glasgow; D. C. MacKenzie, Glasgow; Mrs. J.
MacKintosh, Inverness ; Fred T. MacLeod, Edinburgh ;
Rev. Malcolm MacLeod, M.A., Glasgow; Malcolm
MacLeod, Glasgow; Wilfred J. MacLeod, Glasgow;
Lord James Stewart Murray, Ballinluig; Neil Orr,
Edinburgh; Donald Scott, Perth; H. S. Shield,
Edinburgh; Colin Sinclair, Ph.D., Glasgow; John
H. Smith, Glasgow; A. M. Sweet, Skelmorlie ; Miss
Edith L. O. Taylor, Dunblane; Rev. Donald,
Thomson, B.D., Killin; George Thomson, M.A.,
Glasgow; Miss Millar Weir, Alexandria.
Attending:—Robert MacFarlane, C.A., Treasurer ;
Neil Shaw, General Secretary, and Hugh MacPhee,
Assistant to the Secretary.
The President referred in suitable terms to
the loss Gaeldom had suffered by the death
of Mr. Roderick MacLeod who had done so
much to make the beauty of Gaelic song
known to the world.
Sympathy was also expressed to Mr. Shaw
on the death of his mother.
Minutes of the two previous meetings were
read and adopted. Apologies for absence were
intimated from several members of Council.
The Treasurer read two minutes of the
Finance Committee. The Committee was
gratified to record a surplus of £1006 from the
Oban Mod. Mr. Malcolm MacLeod voiced the
Executive’s appreciation of the splendid efforts
of the Oban Local Committee, the result of
which would be equally gratifying to them as
to the Executive. Mr MacLeod said it could
not be too widely known that the ordinary
income of An Comunn fell far short of the require¬
ments each year, and they depended on the
Mod surplus for financing the work of the
Association. Mr. Macfarlane, treasurer, was
cordially thanked for assiduous attention to
An Comunn’s finances.
The Minutes were adopted on the motions
of Mr. W. D. Barclay and Mr. Alexander
Fraser,
Mr. Macfarlane reported on the Neil Munro
Memorial Committee’s work. A site had been
secured on the estate of Inistrynich, and the
design of the monument has been approved by
the proprietor, Major Fellowes.
A Minute of the Education Committee was
read.
The Committee recommended to hold next
year’s Summer School, in Tobermory, in
July and August. The Committee expressed
satisfaction at the action of the Endowments
Commissioners, in conceding all that was asked
for with regard to the Donald Mackay (Hereford)
Bequests in Sutherland. A sum of £250
annually is available as bursaries for Gaelic
speaking boys and girls, in the county.
Northern and Southern Sub-Committees were
formed.
On the motion of the Convener, Rev. Malcolm
MacLeod, the minute was adopted.
A Minute of the Publication Committee
was read and adopted on the motion of Mr.
Malcolm MacLeod, Convener.
A Minute of the Propaganda Committee was
read.
The Committee requested powers from the
Executive Council to hire, or purchase, a
Dictaphone in order to make permanent
records of valuable folk-lore and music which
otherwise might be lost.
The Committee approved of a suggestion
that a page of the magazine be devoted to
items of interest to children. It was considered
that a page devoted to Comunn na h-Oigridh
might meet the case.
The relation of the Gaelic drama movement
to the Scottish Community Drama Association
was referred to, and reported on by Captain
Campbell of Succoth. Last year in the
Highlands and all over Scotland, he said,
there was a great recrudescence of interest
in the production of plays. No Gaelic plays
were produced in last year’s community drama
festivals, and the question of Gaelic plays
coming up against English plays in competitions
under the auspices of the Scottish Community
Drama Festival had been discussed with
representatives of the Community Drama
Association. The result was that societies
wishing to produce plays in Gaelic might do so
on an equal footing with other societies pro¬
ducing plays in English.
Suggestions that a Gaelic play might be
performed at the Mod in place of one of tbe
concerts and an addition to the literary com¬
petitions for writing of plays were discussed,
and the question was continued.
The Minute was adopted on the motion of
the Convener, Mr. Charles Campbell.