How To Use Gael In A Sentence

In Scotland there are groups of people who are fighting hard to keep Gaelic alive.
It was here that the Gaelic tongue first arrived in the fourth century - and with it came that form of the stick game which has evolved into the modern sport of shinty.
In 1860 ￡2-10-0 was voted for the purchase of Gaelic books; the catalogue of 1865 contained 25 titles.
Yet Highland culture continues to flourish through the Gaelic language, piping, ceilidhs (informal gatherings with traditional music, dancing and poetry) and a full schedule of Highland games.
It is not permitted to set up a Gaelscoil in the 'Gaeltacht' by the way. Slugger O'Toole

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‘All these polls indicate is that there will be a dogfight for the last seat in all key marginals and the vote will be so tight it is hard for anyone to call it,’ the Fine Gael spokesman said.
Even her few words of Gaelic at the start of her speech at the state dinner on Wednesday evening – "A Úachtárain agus a chairde" "president and friends", immaculately pronounced – were an unexpected gesture. Irish eyes are smiling: show of respect turns Queen into runaway favourite
He was selected on the team of Centenary announced five years ago and is regarded as one of the finest footballers ever to grace the Gaelic fields.
Then she pressed herself closer to him, murmuring something in Gaelic, and his expression dissolved in shock. Sick Cycle Carousel
The Fine Gael men were both elected on the first count in 1999 and will be hard to dislodge.
Probably more significant is the fact that Brown was one of the many neutral names adopted by clansmen who wanted to be rid of their politically incorrect Gaelic patronymics.
It is also the most imaginative, least dated, and actually has some real Gaelic.
There is more than a bit of the schlemiel (to cite that useful Gaelic term) about him.
Apparently King Balor's lines are all in "Gaelic", which presumably means Irish; would be interested to know what any gaelgeori thought of this. Linkspam for 10-6-2009
As Fine Gael flatlined in the opinion polls, Bruton was ditched as party leader in favour of Michael Noonan.
Fergal Lynch, who is closing fast on his maiden century of winners, takes the mount on Gaelic Princess, who is expected to have too much speed for her rivals.
As a Gaelic footballer he was as uncompromising as he was skilled.
He represented three different Dublin constituencies before losing his seat last June in the nationwide collapse of the Fine Gael vote.
His family have been deeply immersed in Gaelic games in Portarlington.
He took an active interest in politics and was closely associated with the Fine Gael party for which he was a major fund raiser.
There was a toast in Gaelic which everyone except Salter understood, and a Latin grace which took nobody else by surprise. A BODY SURROUNDED BY WATER
Its name 'Rhugrabh' ('red rock' in Gaelic) is suggested by these hills which are bathed deep red in the sunset's afterglow.
Gaelic is still spoken in Ireland by a tiny minority.
Meanwhile, Fine Gael councillor John Browne said he was encouraged by the broad support he received at the recent meeting of Carlow County Council when he raised the matter.
So the sound of Gaelic songs and marches, strathspeys and reels were a daily occurrence throughout my childhood.
As soon as they began to remove them, they were surprised by hearing cries and screams; and looking around in fear and trembling they saw a woman seeming to have started out of the earth, who flyted at them, that is, scolded them, in Gaelic. Rob Roy
But they had to endure some anxious moments when the Gaels launched a number of attacks which ended in goals for the home team.
While not anti-English, it is decidedly pro-Gaelic (even insisting on Gaelic names in cases where anglicised forms are far more familiar to Scots) and tends to be anti-Presbyterian.
Pritchard's most interesting chapter, in which the best authorities are quoted at length, is convincing that the word 'hoveller' is derived from _hobelier_ (_hobbe_, [Greek] _hippos_, Gaelic _coppal_) and signifies 'a coast watchman, 'or' look-out man, 'who, by horse Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
The key consideration in war-torn Gaelic society was that marriages should seal important political and military alliances between the chieftains' dynasties.
Imagine, I've become the porridge princess- I can bewitch the oats and water into a pottage that makes the young men laugh and old men cease their laughter- me, an incomer, with not a word of Gaelic and a name that's not an island name, aye, right enough, and laundry on the line on Sunday- do you know my secret? Hebrides
The title of the game would suggest that Gaelic Games: Hurling may soon follow but we may be a while waiting for ladies football, camogie, handball or rounders.
Peidiwch a disgwyl i'r Cymry sydd wedi brwydro yn hir a chaled i gael sianel Gymraeg ei haberthu hi ar allor dwy-ieithrwydd. Archive 2008-07-01
There has been much interest recently in the Scots’ language Gaelic, once the preserve of the teuchters in the highlands but now increasingly popular among the keelies in the lowlands.
Clysters he prated on; electuaries; troches; the weed that the Gael of him called _slanlus_ or Doom Castle
Their grandfather played the fiddle, and their father is a piper and singer of Gaelic songs.
She is also a keen sportswoman and plays soccer and Gaelic football.
Bishop Foley took an early lead with the benefit of a strong breeze but Gaelscoil battled hard throughout and never gave up.
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Last night we had a little party on the stage: some Gaelic Leaguers, who brought me a bouquet; some people from the Aran colony – including Synge's friend, McDonough whom I had also known in Aran; and from Kiltartan Mary R. and a cousin and Mrs. Hession's daughters, with the husband of one. Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography
Usually it was a long and, I often felt, unnecessarily drawn-out and tedious experience where worthy but dull homilies were addressed to the assembled Gaels.
The crushing defeat suffered by Comeragh Gaels is no reflection on the efforts of Roger Casey to field a worthy side.
She is involved with primary and tertiary education and the preservation of Gaelic culture and language.
I've shifted from being all Gaelic to being a mixture of both, but in a folky way.
Such urban novels were doubly marginalised, as Scottish within a British context, and as urban within a context which identified rural, Gaelic and Scots-speaking areas as the heartland of the nation.
There's a very rich poetic tradition in Gaelic.
The name is derived from the Gaelic and refers to the town of Cullen in Moray and the word for shin or shank which developed the secondary meaning of soup. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Danny was one of the best Gaelic football referees in the county.
There is a harmony between the breakfast and the frowzy Gaelic cook we saw "sozzling" about in the kitchen. Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing
White beaches, standing stones, flowers on the machair, Gaelic psalm-singing (which sounds like no other church music in Europe - a Chinese or Mongolian feel to it) and monstrous alcohol consumption on a Saturday night (an Englishman is best advised to avoid Stornoway dockside bars) followed by a real Sabbath - no shops, taxis, bars - you go for a walk or go to church. Archive 2005-06-26
The moment was caught in the leader's debate on Monday night when Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny did not gild the lilly and told an audience of close to one million watching that they would all have to share the pain. Niall O'Dowd: Suddenly in Irish Election, an Historic Outcome on the Cards
It is not even compulsory to be able to speak English - alternatively, they could demonstrate their aptitude in Welsh or Scottish Gaelic.
If the Pictish language about which little is known contained a sizeable component of Irish Gaelic, Irish names may have fitted readily into Pictish culture. Pictish female names
After the movie he would have a meal of rice, pasta or fish swilled down with Gaelic Coffee.
Their annexation of the most coveted trophy in Gaelic football unleashed a frenzy of unconfined joy.
The Irish Republic is officially bilingual, as are the road-signs: this allows you to become lost simultaneously in Gaelic and English.
In Gaelic football, goalkeepers will continue to use plastic tees.
Scots Gaelic
In rugby, the ratio of the hand pass to the kick is much lower than in Gaelic football.
Composition involved, in Gaelic parts, the commutation of the chief's right to take up supplies for his household and quarter his kerne and galloglass on his subjects for defence.
An Gaeltacht came out of traps like a good greyhound, took the game doggedly and determinedly to the leaders, and had them reeling as they attempted to hold the Western champions at bay.
And even in the south there remained regions, such as the Wicklow uplands, which were still Gaelic in social complexion.
Gaelic has been a dying language for many years, though children are nowadays taught it in school.
There were two kinds of poets known to the early Gael. the principle of those was called the filè (filla); there were seven grades of filès, the most exalted being called an ollamh (ollav). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Apologies to non-Gaelic speakers for that linguistic intrusion, apologies to Gaelic speakers for being unable to find HTML equivalents for the needed diacritics.
Celebration time for the players in sky blue, dejection, utter dejection, for the gallant Gaeltacht.
I fancy, that, when he sat at the laird's table, (Sir Walter's,) and called the laird's lady by her baptismal name, and -- not abashed in any presence -- uttered his Gaelic gibes for the wonderment of London guests, -- that he thought far more of himself than the world has ever been inclined to think of him. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
The Gaelic language ensures that even the most mundane of social intercourse became occasions of prayer.
You, I make no doubt, would be kenning the name of an herb in the Latin, and I have but the Gaelic for it, and that's good enough for me; but I ken the use of it as a traveller's friend whenever rains are smirring and mists are blowing. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
Singing in turn in ancient Gaelic and Aramaic, a language spoken by Semitic people throughout the ancient Middle East, as well as her own made-up language, Gerrard provide here one of her most mystical performances to date.
During the bush war in Rhodesia Mum forwent her family's Gaelic war cry and took up a personal war cry. Michael Giltz: Book Review: Cheers for Alexandra Fuller's Cocktail Hour...
In terms of Irish stereotypes, Beowulf seems like a Gaelic rather than a Celtic piece of art - canny, virile and earthbound rather than dreamy, spiritual and involuted.
I accept the evidence that there was a period of at least ten hours required to prepare the Windsor Arena for the Gaelforce dance production, commencing with the delivery of the flooring and staging.
They have what we can call ‘communicative competence’ even though their grammatical competence in Gaelic is weak.
Fine Gael too look as if they may be about to modernise themselves thought there are some music ignoramuses who will have to be dragged kicking and squealing into the new era.
I don't believe home advantage makes an iota of difference anymore in Gaelic football.
Early Gaelic accounts speak of large ocean going sailing currachs roving the North Atlantic.
So the question for me is, how do I convert names like: Bodicca, Barita, Catimandua, Cunovinda, Huctia, Tanconx, Vertissa and Verica into something that sounds less latinised and more like that sort of northern dialect that eventually merged with Irish Gaelic to give us medievil Scots Gaelic Women's names. Pictish female names
Interviews with old-timers and vintage footage blend well with gorgeous snowy scenery and soft Gaelic music to paint a flattering picture of this latterly beleaguered resort.
And one person described Gaelic as ‘the tinker's language ’, so that there's obviously some sort of snobbery about the language going on there.
There are days when the majesty, poise, skill, style, poetry and romance of Gaelic football just takes your breath away and then there are games like this when the opposite is the case.
Their continued development will be watched with interest by all followers of Sligo Gaelic football.
The probable etymon of each Gaelic word is given too, and when no information to the contrary follows later it may be understood that its sense matches closely that of the Gaelic word.
The air was an ancient Gaelic melody, and the words, which were supposed to be very old, were in the same language; but we subjoin a translation of them, by Secundus Macpherson, Esq. of Glenforgen, which, although submitted to the fetters of English rhythm, we trust will be found nearly as genuine as the version of Ossian by his celebrated namesake. A Legend of Montrose
Containing 400 texts, the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech project SCOTS, aims to help instil in Scots, both native and expatriate, a pride in their national identity, as well as to try to halt the decline of the language, which unlike Gaelic receives relatively little promotion. Languagehat.com: SCOTS.
Kingston mistakenly believes that they speak Erse on Shetland, which is not the case: Erse is spoken in Ireland, being similar to the Gaelic spoken in parts of Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor
One of his first public comments after being appointed Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs last June was that he was not promising boreens paved with gold.
Despite the poor show by Offaly hurlers last Sunday in Croke Park, the lure of two games is expected to draw a respectable amount of tricoloured Gaels south.
Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny said in recent weeks the country had seen an unprecedented rise in the incidence of unpremeditated violence on our streets.
The forgiving rims in the arena were nothing but help for the long-distance shooting Gaels, who mostly relied on points from behind the arch to stay in the game.
Still, Owenmore Gaels can well be proud of the way they handled themselves against a side that were, all-around, bigger, faster and stronger.
They'll make it physical, use to their benefit the fact that the Gaelic Grounds is a small pitch and attempt to force Kerry to play a tight game funnelled down the middle.
He is considered by many as the sportsman supreme and is one of the greatest living ambassadors for Gaelic Sport.
Gaelic football and hurling have been arousing Irish passions for a long, long time.
North of the Forth-Clyde area the incoming language was Gaelic or a variant thereof, so the label adopted was presumably Alba. The Picts (or Cruithne, or Albans): What's in a name?
As soon as they began to remove them, they were surprised by hearing cries and screams; and looking around in fear and trembling they saw a woman seeming to have started out of the earth, who _flyted_ at them, that is, scolded them, in Gaelic. Rob Roy — Volume 01
Last time I was there, peak-time viewing was a programme in Gaelic about a poet who emigrated to Canada and then died. Archive 2008-09-01
(I'm trying to be careful here) decided than from the stage, in front of the mic to bastardise the anthem by replacing the Fail with a big shout of "GAEL" and then proceeded to murder the rest of the admitted poor tune that is our anthem. Politics.ie
He is Brian McEniff, Donegal gaelic football manager, hotel-owner, former politician and father of ten.
SUN Irish Sport Group Open Field demonstrations, information and instruction promoting the Irish sports of camogie, Gaelic football and hurling for anyone interested in joining a men's, women's or youth team, noon-3 p.m. The Seattle Times
The traditional walkabout saw the Fine Gael leader mix and mingle with the locals with consummate ease.
But Chelsea rallied and, having got back into the game through Meireles's close-range volley, they took full advantage of City being reduced to 10 men through Gaël Clichy's 58th-minute sending-off, for two bookable offences. André Villas-Boas says Chelsea back in hunt by beating Manchester City
O sgwenu am Y Byd, dwi wedi llwyddo i gael mensh ym mlog Vaughan Roderick - a hynny o fewn wythnos o fentro i fyd y blog. Archive 2008-02-01
By January 1885 they have a full set of rules for their, as it were three big games: hurling, Gaelic football and handball.
In the Gaelic football stronghold of Erris, local clubs Erris Utd, Bangor Hibs, Kilmore and Valley Rovers have performed miracles promoting soccer in the barony.
When it was initially proposed early in 2001, the motion was defeated by the combined votes of the Fianna Fail and Fine Gael councillors.
Even Scottish officials castigated Gaelic ('the Irish language') as 'one of the chief and principal causes of the continuance of barbarity and incivility amongst the inhabitants of the isles and highlands'.
Recruiting large numbers of Gaelic kern, they then invaded England, landing at Furness in Lancashire, and immediately made for Richard III's old power base in north Yorkshire.
Soft-tissue injuries such as contusions, strains, and sprains are the most common injuries in Gaelic football, soccer, and rugby.
No serious ideological differences distinguish Fianna Fail, by far the stronger, from Fine Gael.
The Gunners' early play followed a summer which saw arguably its two best players – midfielders Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas – depart the club, along with another starter, leftback Gael Clichy. Van Persie: Arsenal's Money in the Bank
Ó Cearbhalláin enjoyed the social status traditionally accorded to the harper in Gaelic society, but was on equally familiar terms with patrons of native and planter stock.
As a town, Oban has always been at the forefront of things Highland: it is the town after all which hosted the first Gaelic Mod.
His style is a blend of Gaelic eloquence, Harvard donnishness and American stump evangelism.
Gaelic began to eclipse Welsh, though Welsh was still spoken in some areas in the mid-12th cent.
Gaelic Players Chicago and Tara Theatre Company, Winnipeg, have had sellout runs with the play over the past twelve months and Westport Drama Group became the first Irish group to stage the play last April.
There are songs in Latin, songs in Gaelic, a song about an evacuee and one which is clearly a prayer.
Despite the poor show by Offaly hurlers last Sunday in Croke Park, the lure of two games is expected to draw a respectable amount of tricoloured Gaels south.
Colum thought perhaps you were an English spy, though he couldna imagine in that case why you'd no Gaelic. Sick Cycle Carousel
I next inquired of a watchman, who said there was no place upon his beat; but _beat_ was Gaelic to me; and I repeated my inquiry to another, who directed me towards the hells of Saffron Hill. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII
It might be supposed, therefore, that the position of mormaer was a creation of the new Gaelic kingdom of the Scots.
On Saturday night last it bucketed rain once again but a dry Sunday allowed Markievicz Park in Sligo to dry off and the pitch was in great shape for the meeting of Corofin and Eastern Gaels in the first round of the Connacht Club S.F.C.
We happen into a traditional jam session with the legendary Mary Bergin on tin whistle (the instrument some hold responsible for making the Titanic sound track the bestselling of all time), Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh on Bodhran drum (he was a solo in Riverdance for four years and one of the groundbreakers in the musical vocabulary of the instrument) and Steve Sweeney lilting, which is a kind of mouth music along the lines of a Gaelic Bobby McFerrin. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Gaelic Dream edged Just Heavens Gate by a neck for the second spot in the race for three-year-olds and older.
But playing summer soccer in a strong Gaelic football county is not designed to win big crowds, although the players are happy to play in favourable weather and on good surfaces.
Despite the many splits and divisions which have plagued the Gaels through the years, there have always been a few things which brought us together.
emerged as a powerful force Technically, it is inaccurate to call the Armstrongs a “clan,” a designation reserved for Gaels from the Gaeltacht, that is, Highlanders, with a recognized chieftain-based dynasty thought to be descended from the heroes of the Celtic past and with customs and traditions of governance, law, and society all of their own. First Man
He was a stalwart supporter of Shamrock Gaels GAA club and, of the sport in general.
He plays both but his preference, and by a long way, is for gaelic football.
February 23, 2008 at 4:23 pm wich is prolly nawt cat stevens but wakeman frum yes. adn, cat stevens sang, but did nawt rite the lyrics. toon is scots gaelik. yes, dis will be on teh test. And thus did Ceiling Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Gaelic steaks are also on offer with a fillet of beef or venison in a whisky and mushroom cream sauce served with rice. Times, Sunday Times
Around the 5th century the Irish invaded Scotland and brought with them a variety of Gaelic that replaced the traditional Brythonic language. The Celtic Languages: the Richness of the Isles
In terms of Irish stereotypes, Beowulf seems like a Gaelic rather than a Celtic piece of art - canny, virile and earthbound rather than dreamy, spiritual and involuted.
The Gaelscoil building will be a pilot project to the latest specifications with the eventual design to be used as a prototype for the design of schools of its size nationally.
When the Gaelic League decided to make the learning of Irish compulsory, it attorned to this tyranny. Irish Books and Irish People
The team appeared to be taking the earliest possible opportunity to make a statement about life after Fábregas and Nasri, Gaël Clichy and Denilson when Walcott arrived at the near post to meet the low cross of Aaron Ramsey, below, from the right and clip the ball into the Udinese net. Arsenal fizzle out after early promise – just like last season | Richard Williams
McGrath also subscribes to the idea that good International Rules players ideally consists of the same qualities as a good Gaelic footballer.
The rhythm, harmony and melody of the music are drawn from the sounds of nature, mixed with the cadence of the Gaelic language.
Chester is of Roman origin, tun is of Gaelic; but "ham" is Anglo-Saxon, and means village, whence the sweet word home. A Hero and Some Other Folks
Overall, Noonan performed well, delivering to a relieved party a confident, bullish, passionate outline of where he would take Fine Gael from here.
Fine Gael has opted to run an extra candidate.
He is interrupted by a butch, bearded man clad in plaid (played by ascending dreamboat Gael García Bernal) who introduces himself as his childhood friend Ignacio, now an aspiring actor known by the stage name Angel.
Constantine's ancestry in the male line was Gaelic, like most Pictish kings in the 9th cent.
Gaelic has been a dying language for many years, though children are nowadays taught it in school.
Meanwhile, Fine Gael strongly rejected media claims that their economic document, had miscalculated by €1 billion per annum the borrowing implications of its policy.
The non-English parts of the UK have ten million Gaels, Celts, Picts, Irish, Scots and Vikings.
the Gaelic language being uncommonly vocalic
In our English language the word is derived from the Gaelic word ‘uisge beatha’ or ‘usquebaugh’ which means ‘water of life‘.
When people hear this from the deputy leader of Fine Gael, they assume it has the imprimatur of the party,’ he added.
In short, I have tried to put myself into the position of an _ollamh_ or _sheenachie_ familiar with both forms of Gaelic, and anxious to put his stories in the best way to attract Celtic Fairy Tales
The Mod - the biggest Gaelic arts festival - will attract 1,500 competitors in all and many more spectators.
The semi-official status would mean that public authorities in Gaelic-speaking areas, such as the Western Isles, would be expected to be able to provide all their services in Gaelic.
Thus, political considerations generally took priority over religious conformity: Gaelic translations of the Bible and Book of Common Prayer only appeared after Elizabeth's death.
Although now more commonly used to define an extremely visually challanging appearance, the word minger originally came from scottish gaelic, meaning 'septic vagina'. The Guardian World News
He had the personal peculiarity of being ambidexter, or able to wield his claymore with his left hand as well as with his right; and hence his Gaelic name of Coll Kittoch, or Coll the The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
Poitin or poteen is a Gaelic word meaning ‘little pot’ applied to whiskey made in illicit stills.
During these 18 years, we had seen many of the most significant moves to strengthen the position of Gaelic.
Wenger stood accused of exposing too much inexperience to such a high-pressure game and it was worth considering that Gaël Clichy, Emmanuel Eboué and Denílson, three players he has moved on this summer, would surely have featured if they were still at the club. Liverpool show Arsène Wenger and Arsenal some uncomfortable truths
His secretary was to get the clangula to turpentine overside his tsuga to end the gaelic saturnism for planless lounge. Rational Review
Soccer is a winter game, Gaelic football and hurling are summer games.
The word Druid is associated with the Gaelic word for oak, which also has the connotation of strength, solidity, and order. Where To Park Your Broomstick
When his lordship was in his study, our daffing was in Gaelic, for her ladyship, though a Morton, and only learning the language, loved to have it spoken about her. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
To date, aside from a number of 'clachan' size clusters, only two new Irish speaking geographical communities have come about, the Shaw's Road Gaeltacht and the Gaeltacht in Ráth Cairn, Co. Meath. Slugger O'Toole
Often, to stress the moral as well as legal rectitude of the proceedings, a minister would go round when the notices were read out in English to threaten the people with hellfire in Gaelic if they showed any disobedience.
#12 FT – I thought for a moment yae waer goin Gaelic on us… Think Progress » Reid to challenge Bush on Iran.
The Gaelic League, in great force, sang “Fainne geal an lae” between the acts, and “The Wearing of the Green” in Irish…. Autobiographies
Only recently for public consumption has the IRA's intrinsic sinister ethos of a one nation, one culture (Gaelic), one language (Erse), one religion (extreme right wing Roman Catholicism) been deliberately played down. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The absence of a pre-election pact between Fine Gael and Labour will have the almost certain consequence of returning a Fianna Fáil-led government.
There's a very rich poetic tradition in Gaelic.
Composition involved, in Gaelic parts, the commutation of the chief's right to take up supplies for his household and quarter his kerne and galloglass on his subjects for defence.
Back then, kilts were worn only by crypto - nationalists, lunatics on day release from the asylum or Gaels who hadn't quite come to terms with the fact that Flora MacDonald would never be returning to Skye.
By the end of the year, it will reach 1,000 gigaelectronvolts--potentially ruling out some of the most favored variations of supersymmetry theory.
The rest of the morning was filled with academic lessons: Math, History, Poetry, Greek, Latin, Gaelic, English and penmanship.
The memory trick of naming individuals by patronymics, or ‘sloinneadh’ in Gaelic, is the centuries-old system of placing an individual within an extended family system.
And even in Gaelic tales, the island earned fame for being the penal colony where clan chiefs put their enemies in exile.
He explains that his wife's grandfather was a Gaelic precentor who led the singing of the psalms in Skye.
After that I look at RTE's Six One News with Lee outside Leinster House speaking of "mutterings" against Kenny in Fine Gael. Irish Blogs
The Scots and the Irish living in Gaelic parts were aliens, and frequently enemies to the crown.
Indeed deliberately making all the tricky names into anagrams may be an easier way to work through the map for non-Gaelic speakers.
John Mullan discusses Charles Edward Stuart's sobriquets, but we should remember that most of his followers in 1745 were Gaelic-speakers.
A period as the only large opposition party could give Fine Gael the opportunity to renew itself and fight the next election against a Labour Party coming out of government.
What I found out about the name is that it's from the Gaelic word, "cateran" (or something like that), but I do remember that it means Highland Robber. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
Wenger has sold Gaël Clichy to Manchester City for £7m and loaned Denilson to São Paulo for the season. Arsenal's Emmanuel Eboué set for £4m move to Galatasaray
Thus we come to the absurd situation of Fine Gael's road safety spokesman, Shane McEntee, proposing that road signs in Latvian, Russian and Polish should be installed on Ireland's twisting country roads, to remind these killer drivers to drive on the left and avoid alcohol. Unintended consequences
Julie is a true sports lover and tried her hand at every sport including camogie, Gaelic football and athletics.
The Gaelic-language revival is unmercifully burlesqued in The Poor Mouth. Oblomov in Dublin
There was a bit of a 'stooshie' last year when some poor Councillor up in Caithness complained about this - when Caithness has no tradition of speaking Gaelic and precious-few who do so nowadays. Skye No More
This series looks at the exploits of six great Gaelic football and hurling teams beginning with the Down football team of 1960 / 61.
So basically, I would say that the only solution I would be satisfied to attempt at the moment is to look at Brythonic/ Old Welsh type names, particularly of the 'Cumbrian' variety used in Strathclyde, then try to make an educated guess at how these names might have been mangled as a northern dialect and possibly gaelicised to some degree as contact with the Irish increased. Pictish female names
The admirers of pure Celtic antiquity, notwithstanding the elegance of the above translation, may be desirous to see a literal version from the original Gaelic, which we therefore subjoin; and have only to add, that the original is deposited with Mr. Jedediah Cleishbotham. A Legend of Montrose
Ulster was always the largest area under Gaelic rule since medieval times.
Macedon but in the Peninsula, namely the Minho, which probably got its denomination from that race cognate to the Cumry, the Gael, who were the first colonisers of the Peninsula, and whose generic name yet stares us in the face and salutes our ears in the words Galicia and Portugal. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
Major governmental policy statements and the slogans and publications of political parties are translated into Gaelic.
Mr Ahern also rejected Fine Gael and Labour claims that a planned National Development Finance Agency would mean a return to State borrowing by another name.
Enya, meanwhile, has earned a cool €95m from her cosmic/Gaelic airy fairy codology. Irish Blogs
Looking back she saw Gaelic's blue eyes glowing a sheen of green from amongst the mounds of blankets and coverlets.
As I remember, Nuuchahnulth is the language that has around 30 lexical terms relating to salmon in much the same way that Eskimo Inuit has an almost equal number related to "snow" and Irish Gaelic for types of rain and rainfall. Languagehat.com: NOOTKA DICTIONARY.
Gaelic football is a massive commitment for every player but a midfielder carries the greatest responsibility of all.
The Gaelic League, in great force, sang “Fainne geal an lae” between the acts, and “The Wearing of the Green” in Irish … The play hits so impartially all round that no one is really offended.’ Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
Today there are around sixty-five thousand native Gaelic speakers.

How To Use Gael In A Sentence

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