How To Use Gaelic 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.
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

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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
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
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.
His family have been deeply immersed in Gaelic games in Portarlington.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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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.
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.
Apologies to non-Gaelic speakers for that linguistic intrusion, apologies to Gaelic speakers for being unable to find HTML equivalents for the needed diacritics.
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.
They have what we can call ‘communicative competence’ even though their grammatical competence in Gaelic is weak.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He plays both but his preference, and by a long way, is for gaelic football.
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.
When the Gaelic League decided to make the learning of Irish compulsory, it attorned to this tyranny. Irish Books and Irish People
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
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.
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‘.
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Major governmental policy statements and the slogans and publications of political parties are translated into Gaelic.
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.
Indeed deliberately making all the tricky names into anagrams may be an easier way to work through the map for non-Gaelic speakers.
Jamieson suggests, from the Gaelic _dalt_, signifying _a foster-child_. The Elect Lady
He was also a keen football follower, and played Gaelic football for United and Ballina Stephenites' junior team.
Fun fact: the word brogue is derived from the Gaelic word, bróg, which means "shoe. Outblush
The area, chock-full of cozy pubs, golf courses and Gaelic monuments, has tremendous pulling power and many Germans, French, Dutch and Britons have settled here over the past few decades. A Luring Wild Otherworldliness
People had been gabbling at her in some strange language that sounded like a cross between Russian and Gaelic, but slightly more confusing.
In terms of mass appeal rugby comes fourth after Gaelic football, hurling and soccer.
I loved the unusual blend of clarsach, fiddle and djembe, with Norrie's powerful Gaelic singing adding a huge impact to the songs.
At times there are echoes of the raw Gaelic keeners who sang the songs of the dispossessed.
Yet JRR Tolkien wasn't crazy about French, but loved the musical quality of Welsh but not Irish Gaelic, and once wrote to his son that simply hearing a list of words of the Old Gothic language pronounced aloud could "move him to tears". Languagehat.com: CACOPHONY?
Hollywood, a little village sitting astride the Kildare border in the Parish of Ballymore Eustace, has an equally long record in Gaelic football.
The Tocharians were blue-eyed dolichocephalic redheads who wore garments of plaid wool and spoke a language whose closest relative appears to be Old Gaelic. Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The House with Many Doors (or, at the Caucasus, Hang a Right!)
` sandal '(cf. Latin calligula, ` soldier's boot'); German, from the Celtic gairm, a battle cry transmitted via the Latin Germanus; golf, from the Gaelic gowf ` blow with the hand '(an acceptable pronunciation for golf is "gof"); gull, from the Welsh gwylan or the Breton gwelan, ` sea bird'; havoc, from the Welsh hafog ` devastation '; hooligan, VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4
Galleys are direct descendants of Viking ships - the Gaelic name birlinn probably derives from byrdingr, a type of small Norse cargo vessel.
He switched on the television set and watched the news and then a programme in Gaelic, inevitably about the history of the Highland Clearances, when the crofters were driven off their land. Death of a Charming Man
The choice of venue - Glasgow, the road junction for Gaelic immigration from the Highlands of Scotland and the glens of Ireland - is also significant.
In the end, the only Celtic language to survive in the Scoticised kingdom of Alba – as Caledonia was renamed – was the Irish branch: Gaelic, or 'Erse' as it came to be called for a time much later, the language of the Scots of Dalriada. 'The Invention of Scotland: History and Myth'
A fair amount of the dialogue is in Gaelic (and the surtitles are not visible from all seats) though their gist is usually clear enough until the play's downbeat final moments - ironically one of its finest passages.
Expecting a Gaelic romp in the woods, Judge George Hatch bought a brand new pair of brogues.
The children will play a variety of sports including hockey, basketball, rounders, Olympic handball, Gaelic football and table tennis.
They fund the Mod and the National Gaelic Arts Project, they prepared a Gaelic language policy ahead of most other organisations.
George Reid, the Presiding Officer, essayed a bit of Gaelic, then introduced the Lewis psalm-singers.
What most people associate with ‘Scottishness’ - tartan kilts, whisky, bagpipes and tossing the caber - are traditions descended from the Gaelic Highlands.
Last week he listened to various angles around the Dunsink brouhaha, as well as stirring up a campaign to open Croke Park to non-Gaelic sports.
Fairly good discussion on the Scottish Parliament's proposed Gaelic bill on today's Lesley Riddoch show.
Below are many, though not all, of the terms that Irish Gaelic has for describing rainfall. Languagehat.com: NOOTKA DICTIONARY.
Gaelic has been a dying language for many years, though children are nowadays taught it in school.
In the sandy pastures adjoining the dunes (or the machair as it was called in Gaelic), and in the richer, damper fields of the island. SACRAMENT
Children and learners of the language are confused by the number of silent letters in Gaelic, especially those which are in the middle of words and which have no good reason to be there.
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
Fiona Macleod tells of an old Gaelic peasant who stood unbonneted at sunrise, and who answered, when questioned, ‘Every morning like this I take off my hat to the beauty of the world.’
Instead, he argues that if the Henry VIII/Anthony St Leger policy of "surrender and regrant" had been consistently applied, Ireland could have been integrated into the Tudor realms without much more difficulty than Wales or the far north of England, with the Gaelic chieftains converted to loyal-ish subjects rather than fractious objects of military adventure. September Books 19) Tudor Ireland
Importantly, the backdrop was the sublime other-worldly, essentially Gaelic landscape of the Western Isles, whose vastness he would later capture not only on canvas but in a series of extraordinary photographs.
I'd love to check out MacBeth, considering we sort of have the same name: MacVay in Gaelic is MacBheatha, same as his name (though his was a given name, not a patronymic, and we aren't related). Celebrating Scotland
Gaelic-speaking children come to the Mod every year because they are taught to value their culture.
That said, there's an awful lot of rubbish as well, but would 'Dancing on Ice' and Big Brother 'be any worse if they were in Gaelic? Skye No More
Gaelic football matches need a minimum of 250-300 lux output but hurling games need a much higher lux.
A mixture of mostly Gaelic sung tunes, these traditional helpings are served up using mainly harp, guitar, mandola, double bass, tin whistle and vocal and it's the tracks using this orchestration which probably stand out the most.
In fact, it was only by a capricious and wondrous synchronicity that the two individuals there on the strand, buffeted by the Gaelic wind, knew each other at all, brought together by a coincidence of events that pivoted entirely upon the very humble Liparis liparis, otherwise known as the common sea snail. Soul
The children will play a variety of sports including hockey, basketball, rounders, Olympic handball, Gaelic football and table tennis.
Do you know the correct pronunciation of these Gaelic names?
Gaelic has a reputation for having a famously difficult spelling system, and not just among learners of the language.
Goidels and Brythons must at one period have met; but the result of the meeting was to drive the Goidels into the Highlands, where the Goidelic or Gaelic form of speech still remains different from the Welsh of the descendants of the Britons. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)
It is there that subjects are taught in Gaelic, the only college in Scotland where this happens.
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
True to the tradition of real Irish music, we would be standing around a fire listening to a harper or singing in gaelic.
Lord Mountjoy replaced him in Ireland, reducing the Gaelic chiefs to submission and routing a Spanish invasion force in 1601.
Cruithne is an Irish Gaelic word, corresponding to the Brittonic word Pritani, which in turn gives the name of the island, Britain Laing and Laing 2001. The Picts (or Cruithne, or Albans): What's in a name?
Doyle is an ancient Irish Gaelic name meaning 'Dark Foreigner.
However, some traditional but gender-specific Gaelic words have been ditched in favour of English borrowings.
The tight instrumental work on clarsach, keyboard, fiddle, accordion and pipes is augmented by powerful Gaelic singing.
The group is made up of 1 Slovene, 1 Hungarian, 1 Scot who writes in Gaelic, and 2 Russians (plus me, for my poems written originally in Spanish and translating the others into Spanish). Breakfast in Bed
Gaelic has been a dying language for many years, though children are nowadays taught it in school.
Short and stocky, a shopworn wool sweater carelessly worn backwards on occasion, Bob displayed an almost pixyish quality that was only enhanced by his lilting, Gaelic turn of phrase and charming absent-mindedness.
` soothsayer, 'galloglass, Irish and Gaelic galloglach ` foreign youth,' which took on the meaning of ` soldier, 'glen from Irish and Gaelic gleann, earlier glenn ` mountain-valley,' kern from Old Irish ceitern ` band of foot-soldiers, 'leprechaun from Irish lupracan ` sprite,' loch from Irish loch VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2
That day there was nearly murder done, for Donald drew his sgian-dhu and swore he would have the butler's "bluid," to which Grant responded by firing half a pail of water at the furious old man, who was then carried off, foaming and muttering wildly in Gaelic, and was only calmed down by Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai
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