Explore Gaeltacht through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Gaeltacht meaning
An officially recognised area where the Irish language is the predominant language in daily use.
Using Gaeltacht
- The main meaning on this page is: An officially recognised area where the Irish language is the predominant language in daily use.
- In the example corpus, gaeltacht often appears in combinations such as: the gaeltacht, gaeltacht areas, gaeltacht na.
Context around Gaeltacht
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gaeltacht
- In this selection, "gaeltacht" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, waterford, seven, small, areas, regions and quarter stand out and add context to how "gaeltacht" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the gaeltacht confirmed to and and the gaeltacht economy in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gaeltacht" sits close to words such as abhinandan, abhor and abscesses, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gaeltacht
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Irish-speaking Gaeltacht is not shown. (7 words)
This seems to indicate that the Gaeltacht is beginning to shrug off internalised shame. (14 words)
Irish is the main language of the Gaeltacht regions, where 96,628 people live. (14 words)
This Sunday’s event – which is a complete sell-out – will see the Irish Deer Commission, in conjunction with the Department of Culture, Heritage and Gaeltacht, host a supervised rut watch event in the park and it promises to be something spectacular. (42 words)
Séamus Mac Géidigh understood how important that was, and so it’s fitting that for the fourth year in a row this year’s award will go to a young man from a Gaeltacht club. (35 words)
Employment grew in six of the seven Gaeltacht counties: Galway, Mayo, Kerry, Cork, Waterford and Meath, while Donegal saw a marginal fall of 1 per cent in the numbers employed in client companies. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Large parts of County Donegal are Gaeltacht areas where Irish is the first language and some people in west Belfast also speak Irish, especially in the "Gaeltacht Quarter".
This includes West Kerry (Corca Dhuibhne), South Kerry (Uíbh Ráthach), West Cork (Múscraí), south-west Cork (Oileán Cléire), and parts of Waterford (Gaeltacht na Rinne or Gaeltacht na nDéise).
Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, located in Dublin’s Custom House building on Memorial Road, Dublin city centre.
Furthermore, Údarás na Gaeltachta has identified ‘An Ghaeltacht Ghlas’ as an important opportunity to contribute to job creation and the Gaeltacht economy in the Údarás na Gaeltachta Strategy 2021-2025.
Employment grew in six of the seven Gaeltacht counties: Galway, Mayo, Kerry, Cork, Waterford and Meath, while Donegal saw a marginal fall of 1 per cent in the numbers employed in client companies.
Not only did he dig a vote out in Dingle where he is from, and Lios Póil where he is living, but he got a very good vote back in the Gaeltacht areas.
This seems to indicate that the Gaeltacht is beginning to shrug off internalised shame.
But it’s not certainly an insult to any new nationality or any new Irish or any one from Cork or Connemara or the Gaeltacht areas it’s just a Dublin saying.
Kevin McCann will open his art studio in Ballyfin at 5pm, with music and refreshment for visitors, while a pop-up Gaeltacht event takes place at An Sean Chistin in Ballyfin at 8pm.
Séamus Mac Géidigh understood how important that was, and so it’s fitting that for the fourth year in a row this year’s award will go to a young man from a Gaeltacht club.
The Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht confirmed to that its building – also located on Kildare Street – would remain open for this year’s Open House.
This Sunday’s event – which is a complete sell-out – will see the Irish Deer Commission, in conjunction with the Department of Culture, Heritage and Gaeltacht, host a supervised rut watch event in the park and it promises to be something spectacular.
He spent a lot of time in his father’s home of the small Gaeltacht village of Lettermullan (Irish: Leitir Mealláin), Connemara, Co Galway.
When Northern Ireland was formed, unionist were determined to kill off the Gaeltacht communities, writes Caoimhín De Barra.
According to the 2006 Census, there are also 7,218 people who identify as being daily Irish speakers outside the Gaeltacht in the rest of the county.
Another Gaeltacht district is located in the north-west: Cloughaneely ( Irish Cloich Chionnaola main), centred on the town of Falcarragh ( Irish An Fál Carrach main).
Except in Gaeltacht regions, road signs are usually bilingual. citation Most public notices and print media are in English only.
Irish is the main language of the Gaeltacht regions, where 96,628 people live.
Irish language County Cork has two Gaeltacht areas where the Irish language is the primary medium of everyday speech.
The Irish-speaking Gaeltacht is not shown.
Common combinations with gaeltacht
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the gaeltacht 11×
- gaeltacht areas 4×
- gaeltacht na 2×
- gaeltacht is 2×
- another gaeltacht 2×
- gaeltacht regions 2×