It was a fight that deeply divided language activists and their opponents and rumbled on in the Capital for 14 long years.
Now the campaign to have a dedicated Gaelic primary school in the Capital has been turned into a new book.
Ever since 2013 the city has had its first Gaelic medium education (GME) school at Bun-Sgoil Taobh na Pàirce, a formerly mothballed primary school in Bonnington.
Previously the Gaelic “school” had been simply a unit within Tollcross Primary.
Às na Freumhan, “From the Grassroots”, by Gaelic language expert Tim Armstrong tells the story of the sometimes bitter debate which raged around the subject of Gaelic medium education in the late 20th and early 21st centuries and the fight to get agreement for Taobh na Pàirce to be built.
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