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“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even non-fiction.”

Stories Culture Language Novel Modern Storytelling Narrative Non Fiction English Scots Gaelic Screenplay Oral Storytelling

Author:Sara Sheridan

“-"And you that sit by the fire are young, And true love waits for you; But the king and I grow old, grow old, And hate alone is true." - Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred”

Religion Christianity Poem Negative Prose Growing Old Gaelic Classical Literature Saxon

Author:G. K. Chesterton

“Did I tell you I went to Chris Baker's restaurant? Seòin." She pronounces it "shown." "He told me it means 'feast' in Gaelic.”

Name Feast Restaurant Gaelic

Book:All Stirred Up

Source: All Stirred Up

“Goddamn, mo leannan. You taste like rage and desire, and it’s fucking intoxicating,”

Dark Romance Smut Smut Books Gaelic

Book:Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

“What is it that Australians celebrate on 26 January? Significantly, many of them are not quite sure what event they are commemorating. Their state of mind fascinated Egon Kisch, an inquisitive Czech who was in Sydney at the end of January 1935. Kisch has a place in our history as the victim, or hero, of a ludicrous chapter in the history of our immigration laws. He had been invited to Melbourne for a Congress against War and Fascism, and was forbidden to land by order of the attorney-general, R. G. Menzies. He had jumped overboard, broken his leg, gone to hospital, failed a dictation test in Gaelic and been sentenced to imprisonment and deportation. When the High Court declared Gaelic not a language, Kisch was free to hobble on our soil...”

Law History Immigration Australia Hilarious Czech Gaelic Australia Day Ludicrous Menzies Egon Kisch

Book:Observing Australia: 1959–1999

Source: Observing Australia: 1959–1999

“Seek in Glen Massan no emotions of terror and the wild sublime, but a softer sentiment, roused by the forgotten Gaelic bard who sung the sorrows of the sons of Usnach; and in Tarsuinn, Garrachra and Glen Lean, I would restore, in fancy, shepherds and hunters on the grass-grown drove-road and the abandoned hill. The Clyde has drained those glens, not of their waters only, but of men, and melancholy broods among the shadows of Benmore as if it, too, remembered lonefully the unreturning generations.”

Melancholy Gaelic Highland Clearances Cattle Droving Glens Argyll River Clyde

Book:The Clyde, River and Firth

Source: The Clyde, River and Firth

“Food shouldn’t be that shade of green, lass.” – Faolán MacIntyre”

Source: Rogue on the Rollaway

“His deep voice drifted to her through the crowd of women. “…my lady when she returns. Och, there ye are, Blossom,” Faolán grinned, standing up and taking her hand so she could ease back into the restaurant booth. “These lasses were just asking if I was a stripper. I told them I doona think so,” he said, his face clouded with uncertainty. “I’m not, am I?” The inquisitive lasses in question flushed scarlet and scattered to the four corners of the room at the murderous look on Colleen’s face. “No, you’re not, but I guess I can see how they’d think that,” she muttered darkly. “What you are is a freaking estrogen magnet.”

Source: Rogue on the Rollaway

“Submitted for your approval--the curious case of Colleen O’Brien and the gorgeous time traveling Scot who landed in her living room.” – Rod Serling”

Source: Rogue on the Rollaway

“You turn the lights on and off here and if you can’t sleep and want something to read there are books in the living room…” her voice broke off. “Wait. Can you read?” His chin took a slight tilt upward. “Aye,” Faolán replied, his voice cool, “in English, Gaelic, Latin, or French. My Welsh is a bit rusty, and I doona remember any of the Greek I was taught except for words not fit for a lady’s ears. I can also count all the way up to…” He looked down and wiggled his large bare toes, “…twenty.” – Faolán MacIntyre”

Source: Rogue on the Rollaway

“Och, lass. Yer going to have to not do that.” Faolán exhaled. “Creeping up on a man is a dangerous thing, and I confess I’m jumpier than most. Yer feet are soft as a cat’s.” “I wasn’t creeping anywhere, I was going to make coffee and this is my house, I’ll creep anywhere I like,” Colleen muttered with a petulant scowl. “But I wasn’t creeping.”

Source: Rogue on the Rollaway

“Refusing to lean back against him, Colleen sat ramrod straight until they reached the road. “I guess I should say thank you for saving my life,” she muttered then turned and slapped Faolán hard across the face. “And that’s for you having to save it in the first place. And I’m not your woman, you big, arrogant, lying, betraying…faery loving…” She searched for the perfect insult and couldn’t find one, “…Scot.” She gave a very unladylike snort. “Happy now? That fiery enough for you?”

Source: Rogue on the Rollaway

“Is leat mo chridhe, mo leannan. I love you so much that it hurts. Now, will you dance with me? Show the whole damn venue that no one can do it better than us?”

Love Love Quotes Gaelic

Book:Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

“My crazy lass… My beautiful Lucille. Gu sìorraidh is gu bràth.”

Love Quotes Love Quotes And Sayings Gaelic

Book:Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

“This woman knows every single messed up piece of me and she loves me anyway. And I love all of hers in return. My beautiful little brute. Mo chreach bheag. My Lucy. My forever.”

Love Romance Love Quotes Dark Romance Gaelic

Book:Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

“You are a kind soul, mo chreach bheag. I hate to think that you have been lonely for most of your life, when all you deserved was the world.”

Love Romance Love Quotes Sweet Gaelic Scottish Gaelic

Book:Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

“You are remarkable, mo chreach bheag.”

Love Quotes Sweet Romance Gaelic

Book:Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

“Look at me, mo chreach. It’s just us. It’s just you and me.”

Love Quotes Gaelic

Book:Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

“Callum pulled a sgian dubh from out of his stocking and slammed it into the door-frame, where it lodged deep into the wood. “They call it the black knife,” he said. “But it is true steel. That’ll keep the witches frae’ your door at least, Mistress Nansie! Dia leat!” Nansie squeezed his hand. “Dia leat! God with you too, my son!” Callum crossed himself, touched the blade of the sgian dubh for luck and then padded softly down the stairs after the others. “Tapadh leat mo mhàthair!” he called back quietly. “But somethin’ tells me there’s no God where we’re headed…” He stepped out onto the moor, and plunged on into the darkness, until it swallowed him too.”

Scotland Gaelic Highlands Romance Robert Burns

Author:Guy Winter

“Iar gclos báis Mháire i dtuairim cháich má fágbhadh m'ainnir faoi fhód, níor bhuadhaigh bás ar Mháire im mheabhair-se fós.”

Love Death Ireland Gaelic Gaeilge éIre Bás Grá

Author:Pádraigín Haicéad

“By bringing together our differences we will see how similar we really are. Combining our strengths and talents is how we will survive, and embracing love according to the needs and values of the tribe is how we shall conquer our fear...”

Magical Realism Folklore Gaelic Nature Writing Christian Fantasy Celtic Mythology Druidry Ancient Religion Folklore Symbolism Historic Fantasy

Book:Heart of the Earth: A Fantastic Mythical Adventure of Courage and Hope, Bound by a Shared Destiny

Source: Heart of the Earth: A Fantastic Mythical Adventure of Courage and Hope, Bound by a Shared Destiny

“You are a fine dancer, Dubh Burton.” I smile, giving her a soft kiss on her cheek. “And you are flourishing like a flower, mo chreach. You’ve embraced your darkness, and my, it is beautiful.”

Love Romance Darkness Gaelic Scottish Gaelic

Book:Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick

“God's help is nearer than the door.”

Helping Doors Gaelic Irish Proverbs

Author:William Gurney Benham

“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.”

Sometimes Hands Spirit Sports Blood Flying Attacking Englishmen Tenacity Frenchmen Sportsman Lemonade Gaelic

Book:The Red Baron

Source: The Red Baron

“There's a Celtic saying, "Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose."”

Men Mouths Broke Noses Mma Celtic Gaelic

Author:Conor McGregor

“I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don’t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money.”

“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.”

Persons Play Would Be School Used Fun Sports Pieces Football Activity Basketball Active Primaries Dramatic Swimming Physical Activity Primary School Gaelic Sprinters

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“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.”

Poor Rich Mets Drunk Italian Ancestor Sober Yankees Garlic Rich Or Poor Gaelic Schoolmates

Author:J. R. Moehringer

“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.”

Ifs Thinking World Has Beens Different Song Language Rhythm Speakers Shocked English Language Banned Joyce English Speaking Gaelic

Author:Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

“My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.”

Want Kids Grows Growing Up Football Gaelic

Author:Shane Filan

“I have such a great thing I want to do with Lady Macbeth - make her one of the witches - and I have this whole thing where she's very light and dressed in pink and dancing Gaelic dances and throwing roses, but then when her husband's coming home, she does incantations and pulls her hair back, puts on a black leather trenchcoat. I mean, I could tear it up if somebody would give me the chance! But do you think someone would ever let me do Lady Macbeth? I doubt it. But I'm going to keep talking about it.”

Thinking Giving Mean Home Black Chance Doubt Tears Let Me Dancing Rose Great Things Coming Home Witch Gaelic

Author:Beth Grant

“I was a very shy child. I didn't like football. I didn't like the usual stuff that was shoved at. Sports were always down you and the Gaelic language, which I've actually disliked as a kid but as I grow up I quite like it.”

Children Kids Language Sports Growing Up Football Shy Gaelic

Author:Gavin Friday

“My real name isn't Gavin. I was given Gavin Friday by my friends. I'm christened Fionan Hanvey, which is Gaelic and there is no actual English translation. I hated it as a kid but as I grew up I sort of went, "Now I like it."”

Real Kids Hated Friday Translations Gaelic

Author:Gavin Friday

“Our language was even taken from us. The Irish Gaelic language was outlawed and the religion was outlawed. Hence the religion later being stronger; stronger to a negative point of view. But our venge was, I mean if you listen to Irish language, it's very complicated but it's very poetic.”

Mean Language Taken Negative Stronger Complicated Point Of View Poetic Gaelic

Author:Gavin Friday

“My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.”

Way Father Gentleman Swear Ladies And Gentlemen Gaelic

Author:Denis Leary

“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.”

Knows Use Language Sky Identity Speech Rain Ghost Ireland English Language Rainy Day Ireland And The Irish Gaelic

Author:John McGahern

“Beware the anger of a patient man.”

Men Patient Gaelic

Book:Cross

Source: Cross

“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.”

Should Able Wonder Stupid Calling Should I Lanes Pubs Mackayla Lane Gaelic

Book:Darkfever: Fever Series

Source: Darkfever: Fever Series

“"Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.”

Firsts Affection Stranger Englishmen Jest Outlander Gaelic

Author:Diana Gabaldon

“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.”

May Said Stills Understood Mercy I Realized Oath Arches Gaelic

Book:The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“The work praises the man.”

Men Motivational Motivation He Man Praise Celtic Gaelic Irish Proverbs

Author:Charles L. Allen

“Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.”

Thinking Natural Singing Gaelic

Author:Enya

“I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.”

Scottish Celtic Gaelic

Author:Carter Burwell

“My first language is Gaelic.”

Firsts Language Gaelic

Author:Enya

“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.”

Looks Soul Courses Evil Existence Materials Involved Definitions Charm Glamour Enchantment Gaelic

Author:Kenneth Anger

“Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.”

Tears Laughter Gaelic

Book:I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

“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, the - 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.”

Ifs Thinking World Kids Wanted Universe Games Speak Pay Attention Cases Happenings Ireland Outside World Center Of The Universe Gaelic

Author:Roddy Doyle