(n.) A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some druidical Beltane fire flickered in Thurley's eyes and he snapped back at me, quick as a flint-tipped arrowhead fired from a Neolithic bow: "Museumification isn't a word!"
Gaelic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Gael, esp. to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland; as, the Gaelic language.
(n.) The language of the Gaels, esp. of the Highlanders of Scotland. It is a branch of the Celtic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Irish (Gaelic) is the first official language of Ireland.
(2) They are not just saying, 'This is Gaelic so I should like it.'"
(3) An applicant could seek a declaration that it was contrary to the Belfast agreement.” Sinn Féin wants the act to be a “standalone”, meaning it would only concern the rights of Irish speakers and giving the Gaelic language equality in law with English.
(4) Sinn Féin wants an Irish Language Act to be a “standalone” one, which means that the legislation would only concern the rights of Irish speakers and the issue of putting the Gaelic language on an equal par in law to English.
(5) The census also suggests that recent efforts by successive Scottish governments to invest in Gaelic schools may be saving the language from decline.
(6) We’ve gone to watch Gaelic football and hurling, and to Irish bars.
(7) Coming from a culturally nationalist Scottish background with a Gaelic speaking father, I don’t have any difficulty understanding the appeal of independence, let alone the demands for social justice and democratic accountability that are swelling support for it.
(8) That said, I was recently told that the gaelic for whiskey ( uisce beatha ) means “water of life”, which makes me wonder if I shouldn’t be so quick to judge.
(9) Unfortunately, the DUP maintained their position in relation to blocking equality, delivery of equality for citizens - that was the problem.” The Sinn Féin leader in Northern Ireland was referring in particular to issues such as her party’s demand for an Irish Language Act to give Gaelic the same legal power as English in the region.
(10) He knew some people would think he was taking a risk in making his film in Gaelic.
(11) Gaelic Singer and chief executive Feisean nan Gdheal.
(12) After all, doesn't the Scottish government already part-fund the Gaelic channel, BBC Alba ?
(13) He spoke to them in Gaelic, guided them to the house, then took to his tree.
(14) At the same time he took on the editing, with Robert Crawford, of the massive New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (2000), with its abundance of poems in Gaelic, and a handful of other languages, faced by distinguished English translations.
(15) The Ulster Unionist leader, Mike Nesbitt, condemned the threat to Campbell as well as the DUP MP’s attitude towards Gaelic.
(16) We also decided to put the sketches in Gaelic to give it a proper rural Ireland feel, so Tom Cruise became Thomás Crúise and twerking "ag twearchach".
(17) Funding for the SBS will come from Scotland's share of licence fee income (£320m a year) and BBC commercial arm BBC Worldwide's profits (£13m), plus £12m annually provided by the Scottish government for Gaelic broadcasting.
(18) The music policy – The Proclaimers' 500 Miles, followed by Van Morrison's Brown-Eyed Girl, followed by The Proclaimers' 500 Miles – has stayed unchanged for years now, as has its dress code: check shirts for boys, Gaelic football jerseys for girls.
(19) Though their genepool has been modified to some extent by immigrant genes, it is suggested that the Orcadians represent the remains of a relict population, in the same way as, but different from, those of the Gaelic fringe.
(20) At Glasgow's Thistle Hotel on Friday night a 22-piece Gaelic choir sang Highland Cathedral.