Speaking Irish with hurley sticks: Gaelic sports, the Irish language and national identity in revival IrelandThe Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) ban on foreign games, implemented nationally in 1905, affected not only GAA members but Gaelic League members also. The shared Gaelic heritage of both ...
While English is certainly the dominant language in all but some Gaeltacht (Irish speaking) areas, a trip to Ireland will be so much richer if you have at least a smattering of Irish Gaelic. It is important to know also that some Gaelic words vary from one dialect to another. In Ireland...
Republic of Ireland Irish was the only language spoken in Ireland until the 17th century, but the dominance of English and the effects of 19th-century potato famines and emigration led to a sharp decline in the population. Today, Irish is spoken as a first language by a small minority of t...
The areas with the highest proportion of Gaelic speakers (48.9%) were Highland, Eilean Siar (Western Isles) and Glasgow City. Overall 1.7% of the population of Scotland has some Gaelic [source]. In Canada, according to the 2016 census, Scottish Gaelic is a mother tongue, or the language ...
There is a meeting of the men of Ireland in Tara at the end of the year, and I must go there to converse with my comrade and joint-fosterling, Oisín, son of Finn, and because of the summons of the Adze-Head [St Patrick] who ordered me to go there to tell the nobles of the ...
Once spanning Ireland and most of Scotland, the Gaelic language and culture has slowly receded to the western fringes of those countries. Even into the 1970s, children could be punished for speaking Gaelic in school, part of a several-century history of British suppression of local culture and...
Scotland and Ireland are north-western European areas that are bordered by the North Atlantic sea. Historically speaking, the two regions have been culturally and linguistically linked. They have both been subjected to exchange with and oppression from English and Scandinavian traders and raiders....
and economic welfare of the Gaeltacht, and more generally for encouraging the use of Irish as a vernacular. The Northern Ireland government has also made strides to support the provision of Irish Gaelic. TG4 has been made available to large areas of Northern Ireland and the BBC is increasingly...
These invaders pushed the original, Celtic-speaking inhabitants out of what is now England into Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland, leaving behind a few Celtic words. These Celtic languages survive today in the Gaelic languages of Scotland and Ireland and in Welsh. Cornish, unfortunately, is...
Gaelic May Be Making Comeback in Ireland, in Manner of Speaking