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Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung. -- Enya
My first language is Gaelic. -- Enya
I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music. -- Carter Burwell
My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen. -- Denis Leary
My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish. -- Shane Filan
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity. -- John McGahern
Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me. -- Samuel Beckett
I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic. -- Terry Wogan
I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me. -- Eddi Reader
Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang. -- Derrick Jensen
I used to go to a Gaelic class on a Saturday morning, but I never felt myself that I could speak it properly. -- Johann Lamont
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard. -- Patrick Kavanagh
Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection. -- Diana Gabaldon
The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm. -- Lady Gregory
It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas. -- Enya
Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be calling pubs poos?" "Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not. -- Karen Marie Moning
When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I went way out to the west coast of Ireland and rented a little house by myself. -- Rosemary Mahoney
In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors. -- J. R. Moehringer
Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things. -- Kenneth Anger
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland. -- Seamus Heaney
There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her. -- Diana Gabaldon
When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe. -- Roddy Doyle
What did you call me?""Ah. A chuisle. Gaelic. 'My darling'. I prefer the proper translation, mind you.""Which is?"He gave a bashful smileMy pulse." -- Tabitha McGowan
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity." -- John McGahern
Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport. -- Manfred von Richthofen
James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he was thinking in Gaelic. I've sung songs that if they were in English, would have been banned too. The psyche of the Irish language is completely different to the English-speaking world. -- Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh
The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a very powerful destroyer; but it is useless for building up. Love, on the other hand, is like faith; it can move mountains, and faith, we have mountains to move. -- Douglas Hyde
I think the poetry that came out of Belfast, and especially the Queen's University set, in the 1970s and '80s - you know, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Ciaran Carson - that was probably the finest body of work since the Gaelic renaissance, up there with the work of Yeats and Synge and Lady Gregory. -- Adrian McKinty
I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece. -- Saoirse Ronan

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