| 单词 | Gaelic-speaking |
| 例句 | Impoverished Scottish Highlanders, Gaelic-speaking descendants of the Celtic tribes who once roamed northwestern Scotland, flooded into Cape Breton in the early 19th century. Fiddling With the Past: The Secrets of Scottish Music 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z He is a virtuoso of traditional Cape Breton fiddling, which has thrived on this isolated land since it arrived with Gaelic-speaking Scottish Highlanders two centuries ago. Fiddling With the Past: The Secrets of Scottish Music 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z It provided cooking and heating fuel for crofters for generations and the ritual labour of its slow extraction and drying became a crucial part of the culture of Gaelic-speaking Hebrideans. Scotland's rocky road: a journey to the edge of Lewis – a photo essay 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z His father was a Roman Catholic of Irish descent with roots in County Wexford, while his mother was a Protestant, with Gaelic-speaking forebears. Sir Sean Connery obituary 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z For some Scottish Lowlanders who saw the Gaelic-speaking Highlands as a barbarous backwater, the kilt had been regarded as the primitive dress of mountain thieves. How the king's visit saw kilts become Scotland's national dress 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z In the 19th century, the Gaelic-speaking population was evicted during the so-called Highland clearances when landlords created big sheep farms. As Its Population Soars to 40, Rum Isle Glimpses a Future in the Mist 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z In keeping with most Hebridean islanders, the Gaelic-speaking Eigg natives were far from insular. This island is not for sale: how Eigg fought back 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z On that day, every July 16, hundreds make a pilgrimage off the coast of Gaelic-speaking Carna to tiny, uninhabited St. MacDara's Island, to a celebration of mass and blessing of boats. Pilgrimage to tiny Irish island keeps local fishermen safe 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Trump’s mother, Mary MacLeod, was born to Gaelic-speaking parents on the Isle of Lewis before emigrating to the U.S. in the 1930s. Donald Trump's Strange Scottish Golf Course Promotion Trip Explained 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z But Phipps, who was born in a remote, Gaelic-speaking region of Ireland, endured repeated surgeries by doctors who either didn’t know about the casting method or didn’t believe it would work. In pain and forced to use a wheelchair, a young woman opts to amputate her clubfeet 2014-05-05T21:27:00Z His parents, Gaelic-speaking Cape Breton natives, had moved to Saskatchewan to seek work during the Depression, but when Alistair was 10, pining for home, they returned with him to the island. Alistair MacLeod, a Novelist in No Hurry, Dies at 77 2014-04-24T00:53:48Z Most of the men had grown up in a remote, Gaelic-speaking community of just 1,000 people. Skye's Band of Brothers 2014-03-24T13:20:40Z For the one legend existing in the most Gaelic-speaking parts of Ireland and Scotland about Cuchulainn or his cycle there are a score about Finn, Oisin, Caoilte, and others of their contemporaries. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z Owing to its being convenient of access from the Highlands, a very considerable number of Gaelic-speaking persons live in Glasgow, while the great industries attract an enormous number of persons from other parts of Scotland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Her congregations were mostly in the Gaelic-speaking districts of Scotland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z Turning to Scotland, we must put aside Chambers's Popular Rhymes of Scotland, 1842, which contains for the most part folk-tales common with those of England rather than those peculiar to the Gaelic-speaking Scots. Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:15.367Z For the last 800 years Find has been the national hero of the Gaelic-speaking populations of Ireland, the Scottish Highlands and the Isle of Man. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z She seems to have found her way into the folk-lore of England, but not into that of Ireland or the Gaelic-speaking parts of Scotland. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z But a trifling incident, by which his acquaintance with the maxim above spoken of was elicited, gave a new and somewhat astounding annunciation to his Gaelic-speaking hosts. Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby 2011-02-07T03:00:26.033Z We therefore feel perfectly safe in allowing him to present, before our jury trying the Fairy-Faith, the evidence of the Gaelic-speaking witnesses from Barra. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z In 2003, he made a wildly offensive speech in Edinburgh, denouncing English immigration into Gaelic-speaking communities. Sir Iain Noble obituary 2011-01-03T18:11:02Z This poem has the additional interest of showing the racial antipathy between the “Inglis”-speaking inhabitants of the Lothians and the “Scots” or Gaelic-speaking folk of the west country. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z The Gaelic-speaking men in the district were accustomed, instead of calling some specially useless thing a “white elephant,” to call it “The Castle on the Rock.” The Trembling of the Veil They are far better known, and we may be certain of the antiquity of incidents that are known in one form or another to every Gaelic-speaking countryman in Ireland or in the Highlands of Scotland. The Cutting of an Agate The injurious powers of malevolently disposed fairies can only be met, according to popular belief, by wizards and wise women, who still exercise their arts in remote districts of Gaelic-speaking Ireland and Scotland. The Irish Fairy Book There was much illicit distillation and smuggling at this time among the Gaelic-speaking people of the district; and it told upon their character with the usual deteriorating effect. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. By all means, however, let a literary knowledge of the Gaelic language be encouraged among Gaelic-speaking children. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland As he passed a Gaelic-speaking group of checked shawls he was grasped violently by the sleeve and forced into the circle. Treasure Valley There had been a talk of instituting bursaries for the advancement of Gaelic-speaking students. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. The Regulators were divided in their sympathies, and it was impossible to find a Gaelic-speaking minister, clothed with authority, to go among the Highlanders. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Home, full of the literary gossip of the hour, seized upon the opportunity to question Macpherson concerning the poems that were rumored to have survived among the Gaelic-speaking population of Scotland. Romance Two Lectures In short, the connection between Fians and Fairies, recognised in the Gaelic manuscript of eight or ten centuries ago, is apparent throughout the traditions of the Gaelic-speaking people. Fians, Fairies and Picts "Foreign nations look on the Gaelic-speaking Scots as wild barbarians because they maintain the customs and the language of their ancestors; but we call them Highlanders." An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) The south-west corner, Galloway, was called Pictish, and was peopled by Gaelic-speaking tribes. A Short History of Scotland I thought of the Gaelic-speaking battalions of the Camerons and could hardly suppress a smile. The Man with the Clubfoot They are far better known, and one may be certain of the antiquity of incidents that are known in one form or another to every Gaelic-speaking countryman in Ireland or in the Highlands of Scotland. Gods and Fighting Men It is urged that Ireland is already isolated enough, and that by making it a Gaelic-speaking nation, we shall make that state of affairs still worse. The Glories of Ireland Edward was for many years at war with Scotland, which now included the Gaelic-speaking people of the Highlands, and the English-speaking people of the Lowlands. Outline of Universal History Turning to SCOTLAND, we must put aside Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland, 1842, which contains for the most part folk-tales common with those of England rather than those peculiar to the Gaelic-speaking Scots. Celtic Fairy Tales We have seen that in Scotland, especially among the Gaelic-speaking population, the last corn cut is sometimes called the Old Wife and sometimes the Maiden. The Golden Bough The Gaelic-speaking peasantry, alike in Ireland and Scotland, have preserved orally a large number of these ballads, as also a great mass of prose narratives, the heroes of which are Ossian and his comrades. Gods and Fighting Men |
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