Spotlight - 11.2019

IN THE SPOTLIGHT 11/2019 Spotlight 7

NORTHERN IRELAND

Home is

where the

hearth is

EASY

It would be difficult for most of us to live
without running water or electricity for
a day, but Margaret Gallagher, aged 77,
lives like this because she wants to. Her
home is the place where she was born —
a 280-year-old house near the Irish border
in County Fermanagh. Here, she cooks
over an open fire and brings water into
the house by bucket. She told the BBC
that in the 1950s, when most people in
Ireland were modernizing their homes,
her mother had died and her father got
sick, and that she has “never seen any rea-
son to change”. She said, “I am my own
person. I have my own identity. I’m doing
it because I like doing it.”

Age: 24

From: Powys, Wales

Background: Huws began playing the

harp when she was 10 and studied at

the Royal Welsh College of Music and

Drama. She went on to play for the royal

family and at important events.

Famous because: She is the new Royal

Harpist to the Prince of Wales. She is the

sixth harpist to hold this position since

Prince Charles re-established it in 2000.

Ambition: She told the BBC that she

hopes to use her new position to be an

ambassador for the language, music and

culture of Wales, and to popularize the

harp.

GHANA

A great leap

for nature

EASY

Caleb Ofori-Boateng recently won the

Whitley Award for helping to protect the

Togo slippery frog, which at one time peo-

ple thought was extinct. Ofori-Boateng,

a herpetologist from Ghana, helped to

rediscover the frog in 2005 and has es-

tablished an area to protect it. He says

the Togo slippery frog is completely dif-

ferent from any other frog. “It is believed

genetically to be as different as pigs are

from whales,” he told Rainforest Trust. It

had almost died out because local people

think eating it protects them from becom-

ing ill, and because the forest where the

Togo slippery frog lives is disappearing.

I want

to er adicate

the miscon-

ception

that ‘female’

is a genre,

’cause it isn’t.

award [E(wO:d]

, Preis, Auszeichnung

extinct [Ik(stINkt]

, ausgestorben

herpetologist

[)h§:pI(tQlEdZIst]

, Experte, Expertin für

Reptilien und Amphibien

slippery frog

[(slIpEri frQg]

, Riesenfrosch

bucket [(bVkIt]
, Eimer

hearth [hA:T]

, Herd, Feuerstelle

(Wortspiel mit „home is

where the heart is“)

THE NEWCOMER

Alis Huws EASY

eradicate

[I(rÄdIkeIt]

, beseitigen,

ausmerzen

misconception

[)mIskEn(sepS&n]

, Irrglauben

ambassador

[Äm(bÄsEdE]

, Botschafter(in)

harp [hA:p]

, Harfe

— Kate Nash, British singer-

songwriter, in her recent

documentary, Kate Nash: Under-

estimate the Girl, about the

brutality of the music industry.