The dialect spoken in Northern Ireland, Ulster Irish or Donegal Irish, is the one closest to Scottish Gaelic (which developed into a separate language from Irish Gaelic in the 17th century).

Gaelic is spoken by only about 80,000 of Scotland s 5.1 million inhabitants.

Whole villages were removed and the Gaelic culture of the island devastated.

Holyrood ( Scottish Gaelic Taigh an Ròid) is an area in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.

The use of the Welsh language in Britain and Gaelic in Ireland is greater today than fifty years ago.

However, in the 19th century, the language was seen as a common heritage, with Ulster Protestants playing a leading role in the Gaelic revival.

Over 92,000 people in Scotland (just under 2 of the population) had some Gaelic language ability, including 72 of those living in the Outer Hebrides.

The 1901 Census reported 25 49 Gaelic speakers on the eastern side of the island and 50 74 on the western side of the island.

The Ulster GAA is the branch of the Gaelic Athletic Association that is responsible for the nine counties of Ulster, which include the six of Northern Ireland.

Major Gaelic Athletic Association matches are opened by the Irish national anthem, Amhrán na bhFiann (The Soldier's Song) , which is also used by most other all Ireland sporting organisations.

It was spoken predominantly throughout what is now Northern Ireland before the Ulster Plantations in the 17th century and most place names in Northern Ireland are anglicised versions of a Gaelic name.

Manx (native name or , pronounced or ), also known as Manx Gaelic, and as the Manks language, is a Goidelic language of the Indo European language family, historically spoken by the Manx people.

Some words and phrases are shared with Scots Gaelic, and the dialects of east Ulster those of Rathlin Island and the Glens of Antrim were very similar to the dialect of Argyll, the part of Scotland nearest to Northern Ireland.

Our English Irish systems took, and take, absolutely no cognisance of the differences between individuals, of the differences between localities, of the differences between urban and rural communities, of the differences springing from a different ancestry, Gaelic or Anglo Saxon.

In Gaelic games, followed mainly by nationalists, the GAA county is Derry , but in sports followed mainly by unionists, clubs tend to avoid the use of Londonderry in favour of more precise locales (Glendermott Cricket Club) or neutral terms (Foyle Hockey Club).