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Gael|geɪl|
[a. Sc. Gael. Gaidheal a member of the Gaelic race = OIr. Gaidel, Goidel.
The Irish Celts call themselves by the same name, but the word first became familiar to English readers as denoting the Scottish Highlanders, and only in more recent times has it been applied to the Irish branch.]
A Scottish Highlander or Celt; also, an Irish Celt.
[1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. i. 73 Calling thame al Scottis..albeit is plane and euident that mony hundir ȝeiris eftir, thay war called Gathelis fra Gathel.] 1810Scott Lady of L. v. ii, The Gael around him threw His graceful plaid of varied hue. 1895J. H. Staples in Trans. Phil. Soc. 202 The old Gaels possessed the voiceless ‘qu’.
Hence ˈGaeldom [-dom], the land of the Gaels; Gaelic culture or civilization; the Gaelic people.
Perhaps modelled on Sc. Gael. Gaidhealachd the country inhabited by the Gaelic-speaking race.
1860J. F. Campbell Tales W. Highlands (1890) I. Introd. 15 What part of the Gaeldom are you from? 1890D. Hyde Beside Fire p. xxx, This story..was carried by some Irish bard..to the Gaeldom of Scotland. 1891Sat. Rev. 5 Sept. 277/1 Mr. Blackie's invasions of Gaeldom did not do very much..for Celtic philology. 1898Folk-Lore IX. i. 46 Until 300 years ago there was practical identity between the mythical and heroic literature of the two main divisions of Gaeldom—Ireland and Scotland. 1925D. Corkery Hidden Ireland x. 300 It was a Gael who wrote this poem, a Gael whose mind was nurtured in Gaeldom. 1930W. B. Yeats Diary 20 Oct. (1944) 56 The devout Catholicism and enthusiastic Gaeldom. 1959Listener 20 Aug. 292/2 A reader..might well wonder whether Gaeldom, having ‘declined’, is now dead. 1963Economist 19 Oct. 252/1 Scottish Gaeldom's great annual festival. |