Duncan MacGilp sings a Gaelic song, "An Ataireachd Ard"

Singer

MacGilp, Duncan

Date

• 1984

Summary

• Duncan MacGilp (1925-2019), the founder and director of the Isle of Mull Gaelic Choir, was a native of Tobermory. He received his higher education on the mainland in mechanical engineering. Then, when his father became ill, he returned to Mull to run a garage in Tobermory for many years. He was familiar with Gaelic from his childhood, but through his education he became habituated to speaking in Highland English, using Gaelic as a second language. Here, in a recording made in 1984 at his home overlooking Tobermory Bay, he sings a Gaelic song of exile, "An Ataireachd Ard."