What are Gaelic games and how are they producing NFL hopefuls in kicking and punting?

Ireland will host its first NFL regular-season game Sunday when the Pittsburgh Steelers face the Minnesota Vikings at Croke ...
Charleston City Paper

Scottish Performing Arts Classic on June 6-7 keeps Gaelic culture alive

Retired Canadian Army Maj. Bruce W MacDonald is aware that Gaelic words can be difficult to pronounce. But he has a solution. “Gaelic is not something you want to take on without being drunk,” he said ...
Daily Record

Long-forgotten Scottish Gaelic words rediscovered as language funding announced

An online dictionary has rediscovered lost Gaelic phrases and words. The meanings of the long-forgotten expressions have also been revealed. Faclair na Gàidhlig seeks to provide a better understanding ...
RTE Online

The Hobbit translated into Scots Gaelic for first time

One of the world's best-selling books has been translated into Scots Gaelic. Professor of Gaelic and translation at the University of Aberdeen Moray Watson began working on a Scots Gaelic draft of JRR ...
BBC

First Gaelic translation of Tolkien's The Hobbit

The first Scottish Gaelic translation of JRR Tolkien's fantasy adventure The Hobbit has been completed by a professor at the University of Aberdeen. Moray Watson, a professor of Gaelic and translation ...
BBC

First Gaelic translation of Tolkien's The Hobbit

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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

Professor publishes world’s first Gaelic translation of ‘The Hobbit’

The first ever Gaelic translation of "The Hobbit" has been published by a university professor. Moray Watson, Professor of Gaelic and Translation at the University of Aberdeen and a lifelong Tolkien ...
The Scotsman

The 100 million best-selling children's book published in Scottish Gaelic for first time

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The National

The Hobbit to be published in Scottish Gaelic for first time

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Scottish Legal News

Ewan Kennedy: Burns and the Gaelic

In Ayrshire, Gaelic had already largely died out before Burns was born in 1759. His Jacobite father had North East ancestry and didn’t have the language. While the Ayrshire Scots that Burns spoke ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘An t-Eilean’: Why the BBC Is Betting on the U.K.’s First Gaelic Prestige Drama Series ‘The Island’

"It is really an inspiring time and a necessary time to really take ownership of our language and our culture and celebrate it," says Sorcha Groundsell, star of the Scottish crime show. By Georg ...