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Case Study: Transition to a Vegan Diet in an Elite Male Gaelic Football Player

open access: yesSports, 2021
Vegan diets are increasingly of interest to athletes, but require a well-planned approach in order to mitigate the risk of potential adverse effects on nutrient intakes, and consequently performance.
Daniel Davey, Shane Malone, Brendan Egan
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Tracking Biliteracy Skills in Students Attending Gaelic Medium Education: Effects of Learning Experience on Overall Reading Skills

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
This study describes the validation of a reading assessment developed for speakers of Scottish Gaelic, an endangered language spoken in Scotland. The test is designed to investigate the areas of reading for understanding, reading errors and reading speed.
Euan Dickson   +3 more
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Converses with the Grave: Three Modern Gaelic Laments

open access: yesGenealogy, 2021
Within Scottish deathways, the Gaelic lament has long served as a poignant and powerful outlet for loss. In this creative piece, three Canadian-born, Gaelic-speaking poets present their previously unpublished Gaelic laments along with English ...
Chelsey MacPherson   +3 more
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Factors influencing performance and injury risk in elite female Gaelic team sport players and future research directions: a narrative review

open access: yesBMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2022
Background Sports science research in elite female Gaelic team sports has increased in recent years, but still a large disparity exists between the volume of studies involving male and female players.
John David Duggan   +2 more
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Scottish Gaelic political terminology – Term formation in the Scottish Parliament Annual Report

open access: yesLingBaW, 2022
This paper analyses the Scottish Gaelic political terminology used by the Scottish Parliament, based on the translations of three Annual Reports.
Lena Krochmann
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Elegies and Laments in the Nova Scotia Gaelic Song Tradition: Conservatism and Innovation

open access: yesGenealogy, 2021
Gaelic-speaking emigrants brought with them a massive body of oral tradition, including a rich and varied corpus of song–poetry, and many of the emigrants were themselves highly skilled song-makers. Elegies were a particularly prominent genre that formed
Robert Douglas Dunbar
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A qualitative examination of injury prevention strategy and education in Ladies Gaelic football: Understanding the preferences of players and coaches

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
The high rates of injury in Ladies Gaelic football impact the wellbeing of players and are a major financial burden for the Ladies Gaelic Football Association. Effective injury prevention programmes have been developed for Gaelic games, but these are not
John Corrigan   +3 more
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Science and Hurling: A Review

open access: yesSports, 2022
Hurling is one of the world’s fastest field sports. Since the last review of science and Gaelic sports in 2008, there has been an increase in sports science provisions across elite and sub-elite cohorts, resulting in increased hurling-specific literature
Kieran Collins   +4 more
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Le gaélique en Nouvelle-Écosse

open access: yesLa Bretagne Linguistique, 1991
The Gaelic language that barely survives in Nova Scotia today is the legacy of the Highlanders who came to this land, previously populated by the Micmac tribe and the Acadians, in the late 18th century.
Kenneth E. Nilsen
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Benefits of bilingualism - Buannachdan Dà-Chànanas Agus Foghlam Tro Mheadhan Na Gàidhlig

open access: yesEducation in the North, 2009
In this article Christina Walker, Lecturer in Gaelic Medium Education, Aberdeen University, discusses the benefits of bilingualism and Gaelic Medium Education.
Christina Walker
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