Irish versus Gaelic

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As he says himself, it's from an Irish point of view. For example, he perpetuates the myth that the Gaelic of Scotland had its origins in Ireland whereas both p-Celtic (Pictish, Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Galician) and q-Celtic (Scots/Irish Gaelic, Manx) existed as separate strands in Europe and both came to "mainland" Britain whereas only q-Celtic went to Ireland. Scots and Irish Gaelic are generally much more similar than he implies - in fact, many contributors to BBC Alba (TV) or BBC Radio nan Gaidheal (Radio) are Irish Gaelic speakers and, apart from accent differences, there is very little problem in mutual intelligibility. By the way, Gaelic is always pronounced Gaalik and NEVER Gaylic in Scotland.
It may interest some of you "Celtophiles" that Gaelic is spoken by about 80,000 people in Ireland and 60,000 in Scotland, whereas Welsh is spoken on a daily basis by 500,000 in Wales!
Alan