Sentences with phrase «gaelic speaking»

Campbell reflects on the tension of the anthropologists» projections onto the Gaelic speaking peasant cultures of their studies and the complexities of a society whose precarious existence faces threats of immigration, industrialisation and reform.

British / Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara's new project The Humanizer places Roger Casement's extraordinary biography at the core of an imagined new Hollywood biopic, while Irish born artist Duncan Campbell is working on his first film based in the Republic of Ireland, which takes as a starting point a series of American anthropological studies of Gaelic speaking rural communities in Ireland in the 60s and 70s.

In particular Campbell is interested in the moment when the revered Gaelic speaking peasant culture society of places like Dún Chaoin came to be seen as an obstacle to progress.

Not exact matches

Winner: Memphis - The unfortunate demise of the Gaels comes when they confront a tiger and try to speak to it in Gaelic.

Winner: Saint Mary's - Middle Tenn's mascot is a horse and Saint Mary's mascot is the «Gaels», which is essentially a person who speaks Gaelic.

I was raised on a croft in Tangasdale (a name given by the invading Norsemen) on the west side of the Gaelic - speaking Isle of Barra, the island of the Clan MacNeil, in the Outer Hebrides, where I still live.

And if more parents who speak Gaelic start passing it on to their kids, lifting the number of native Gaelic speakers, the number of new bilinguals needed could fall by half.

Sidekick Jamie Bell also performs well, especially in convincingly having to speak Gaelic, though, as with the lack of contrast in the atmosphere of the film, the duplicitous nature of his character isn't called into question nearly enough for the scenes in the middle of the film where he must pretend to be the master to Tatum's slave to be as effective as is warranted in the script.

The stereotypical «baddie» drug dealers aren't particular standouts, though David Wilmot's ginger - haired, bug - eyed socio / psychopath lent some laughs as did the quirky Gaelic - speaking natives.

A smattering of owners club stickers speak of a car equally cherished and chastened, while another reads «Eilean a» Cheò,» meaning «Island of Mist» in Scotland's native Gaelic tongue, revealing that the car lived once on the Isle of Skye.

The leaves whisper even in the absence of wind, speaking in Gaelic, the language of ancestors who once ruled the plants; perhaps lamenting a lost tongue, a lost soul of a land now pervaded by a higher culture of stars and banners and glossy chattels.

Currently, the most spoken language in Ireland is English, but «Irish», also called Gaelic or

But was there ever some doubt about the plan, since as beloved as Gaelic is there are, relatively speaking, a fairly small percentage of people who speak and read the language?

She speaks fluent French, conversational German, and very basic Gaelic and Maltese.