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What does Gaeltacht mean?

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Noun
  1. (Ireland) An officially recognised area where the Irish language is the predominant language in daily use.
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A while after the newspaper article appeared, I received a postcard from the Conamara Gaeltacht.
As a Member of Parliament representing the largest part of Ireland's Irish-speaking Gaeltacht region I am very pleased to see that this extends to the Irish language which is a Treaty language.
Celebration time for the players in sky blue, dejection, utter dejection, for the gallant Gaeltacht.
In 1969 he founded The Honest Ulsterman, and in 1990 established the Poets' House at Islandmagee with his third wife, later removing to Falcarragh in the Donegal Gaeltacht.
A while after returning from living in the Conamara Gaeltacht during a sabbatical leave, I asked my elder boy where he would prefer to live: In Conamara or in Halifax?
One of his first public comments after being appointed Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs last June was that he was not promising boreens paved with gold.

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