GAELIC-SPEAKING • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Gaelic-speaking

... Maclean has observed that 'even more remarkable than the dearth of philosophical and dramatic poems, and, we might add, of narrative and pastoral poetry proper, is the scarcity of Gaelic prose.' By all means, however, let a literary knowledge of the Gaelic language be encouraged among Gaelic-speaking children. It is a very different matter to enforce such steps as would lead to the teaching of Gaelic to children that live indeed in Gaelic-speaking districts ...

— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes