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The Gaelic-speaking world or Gaelic culture.
the Celtic areas of Britain and Ireland (see sense A. 4a), when regarded as peripheral to, and to some extent distinct from, the rest of the…
Chiefly Irish English. Any of several regions of Ireland in which Irish is the predominant language of a large or significant proportion of the…