Cargill in southern New Zealand near the town of Dunedin, which in Gaelic means Edinburgh.
At a state banquet, "suddenly she started speaking in Irish, in Gaelic, " Cameron recalled.
The arts project has been called Bonnie Boat, Bata Breagha in Gaelic.
The offshore project, called Neart na Gaoithe (meaning "strength of the wind" in Gaelic), would occupy an area of around 65 sq miles.
I've worked long and hard in all my teaching career to be involved in Gaelic-medium education and it's just amazing that we're at this stage.
But the council, which opened up the post to teachers who were not fluent in Gaelic but were prepared to learn, said the job would now be re-advertised.
"The new school will help provide progression for teachers in Gaelic medium education by extending their prospects in the city and alleviate the pressure on the Woodside campus, " he said.
As a young man Jack Lynch (he was never John) gained fame in his native Cork in Gaelic football, in which players can use their hands as well as their feet, and in hurling, an Irish form of hockey.
The conference also urged the executive to support the Liberal Democrat policy to add a penny onto the basic rate of income tax, provide teaching facilities in Gaelic and other minority languages where there is demand, and ensure that class sizes are reduced across the whole age range of pupils.
Despite making her name for singing in the Gaelic language, Fowlis recorded two songs for the film - Touch of Sky and Into the Open Air - in English.
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In the later eighteenth century the simple fact of losing land and becoming landless, he says, was much more significant for large numbers of people in Lowland society than it was in the Gaelic speaking Highlands of Scotland.
The research found 65% of those surveyed thought more should be done to promote Gaelic in Scotland and 81% felt it was important Gaelic language traditions were not lost.
Members of a Gaelic speaking society are, apparently, still smarting after their inquiries about promoting the language in Scotland were batted away by Scottish government officials, who told them that more people speak Farsi than Gaelic in modern Scotland.
Individual programmes are now appearing in a variety of slots across the schedule although the overall amount of Gaelic in peak viewing hours should stay the same.
Minister for Gaelic Alasdair Allan said the Scottish government had long believed in the importance of Gaelic.
In March, they added BBC Alba, the Gaelic channel which is a digital TV channel broadcasting Gaelic programming daily from 17:00-23:30, in case you want to brush up on your Gaelic.
When the school opened in 2007, it was the first purpose-built Gaelic-medium school in Scotland.
Television and radio has previously been indentified as a major player in raising awareness of Gaelic.
In Scotland, the country's first Gaelic-medium secondary school opened in Glasgow in 2006.
Mr Salmond said the investment would help expand Gaelic education in schools, and lead to more people using the language.
In 2006 the country's first dedicated Gaelic-medium secondary school opened in Glasgow.
When Miss O'Sullivan first came to Hollywood the publicists said she was born in a thatched cottage in Ireland and spoke Gaelic.
The BBC launched a Gaelic channel, BBC Alba, in September last year, which promotes the Gaelic language, while hoping to appeal to audiences across Scotland.
Despite unionist alarm, Mr McGuinness as education minister has neither the power nor the inclination to make the teaching of Gaelic compulsory in all Northern Ireland's schools.
Somebody, for example, needs to create a filter that would excise all the stupidity about Gaelic poetry in Million Dollar Baby, from Time Warner 's (nyse: TWX - news - people ) Warner Bros. studio.
He was from Craigbane village in County Londonderry and played Gaelic football for his local club, Craigbane GAC.
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The city's first Gaelic School opened in 1999 for primary pupils, then relocated to the site of the former Woodside Secondary School in 2006.
The level of Scottish government spending on Gaelic has been criticised in the past.
Highland Council is still having problems filling a head teacher vacancy at a Gaelic-medium school in Inverness.
Highland Council has defended its efforts to fill a head teacher vacancy at a Gaelic-medium school in Inverness.
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