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Tàladh Chrìosda (' Christ's lullaby ') is the popular name for the Scottish Gaelic Christmas carol Tàladh ar Slànaigheir (' the Lullaby of our Saviour ').It is traditionally sung at Midnight Mass in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.
Christmas Day was made a public holiday in 1958 [12] in Scotland, Boxing Day only in 1974. [13] The New Year's Eve festivity, Hogmanay , was by far the largest celebration in Scotland. The giftgiving, public holidays and feasting associated with mid-winter were traditionally held between 11 December and 6 January.
Ceann na Caillí ('The Hag's Head'), the southernmost tip of the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare.One of many locations named for the Cailleach. [3]Cailleach ('old woman' or 'hag' in modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic) [1] [4] comes from the Old Irish Caillech ('veiled one'), an adjectival form of caille ('veil'), an early loan from Latin pallium, [5] 'woollen cloak'.
Scottish Gaelic (/ ˈ ɡ æ l ɪ k /, GAL-ik; endonym: Gàidhlig [ˈkaːlɪkʲ] ⓘ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as both Irish and Manx, developed out of Old Irish ...
This list of Scottish Gaelic surnames shows Scottish Gaelic surnames beside their English language equivalent.. Unlike English surnames (but in the same way as Slavic, Lithuanian and Latvian surnames), all of these have male and female forms depending on the bearer, e.g. all Mac- names become Nic- if the person is female.
The Scottish Gaelic surname for Macpherson is Mac a' Phearsain which means son of the parson. [4] The Celtic church allowed priests to marry and the progenitor of the chiefs of Clan Macpherson is believed to have been a man named Muireach or Murdo Cattenach who was the priest of Kingussie in Badenoch .
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White, with a black nordic cross and black Saltire, and a gold eight-pointed star where the crosses intersect, representing the sun rising position within the Scottish sky. The white represents the former arms of the Sutherland County Council, while the black represents dark skies and the peat of the Flow Country. [10] [11]