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Gaelic-speaking   /gˈeɪlɪk-spˈikɪŋ/   Listen
Gaelic-speaking

adjective
1.
Able to communicate in Gaelic.






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"Gaelic-speaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels. Only the byline, or hero-songs of Russia, equal in extent the amount of knowledge about the heroes of the past that still exists among the Gaelic-speaking peasantry of Scotland and Ireland. And the Irish tales and ballads have this peculiarity, that some of them have been extant, and can be traced, for well nigh a thousand years. I have selected as a specimen of this class the Story of Deirdre, collected among the Scotch peasantry ...
— Celtic Fairy Tales • Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed.)

... minority of his nephew, the grandfather of the first Earl of Cromarty, and was said to have been a man of much ability and considerable culture for the times in which he lived. At the same time he was a man of strong personality though of evil repute in the Gaelic-speaking districts, as the following couplet still current among ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor



Words linked to "Gaelic-speaking" :   communicative, communicatory



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