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Gaelic [gal-lik, gay-lik] Noun any of the closely related Celtic languages of Scotland, Ireland, or the Isle of Man Adjective of the Celtic people of Scotland, Ireland, or the Isle of Man, or their language
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| The Tain gives us vivid pictures of people and things, but it is not full of beauty and of tender imagination like many of the Gaelic stories. Johnson and others, who had dared to say in their time that the poems of Ossian were not genuine lays of the Gaelic bard, handed down from father to son, and taken from the lips of old women in Highland huts, as Macpherson claimed. In this sore and irritable mood did the captain pursue his course, keeping a wary eye on every movement, and bristling up whenever the detested sound of the Gaelic language grated upon his ear. |
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