The Collaborative International Dictionary
Irish \I*rish"\, n. sing. & pl.
pl. The natives or inhabitants of Ireland, esp. the Celtic natives or their descendants.
The language of the Irish; also called Irish Gaelic or the Hiberno-Celtic.
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An old game resembling backgammon.
get one's Irish up to become angry.
Usage examples of "irish gaelic".
Widely traveled, like many another professional mercenary officer, and also owning a middling if informal education, as well as the ear for languages and dialects which was the natural endowment of not a few Celts, Sir Ringean spoke a reasonable English, plus all of the Scots dialects, Irish Gaelic, Norse, Danish, French, Flemish, Welsh, some German, and stray words, phrases, and obscenities in a number of other tongues, so Bass had no trouble at all in conversing with this newest of his captains.
A babble of voices speaking incomprehensible Irish Gaelic deepened Lailoken's uneasiness, but no one had drawn weapons, which was a mercy, particularly since they'd been recognized for what they were.
Even the language was gone: Irish Gaelic was dead or dying, clinging to a vestigial and eroding existence on the rocky shores of bays and inlets the names of which he did not know and could not pronounce even if he did.