Nice web page, by the way. I am Scots (on my dad's side)-Irish (on my mother's side), and my mother's father could speak some Gaelic. He was my hero, a WW I vet who fought in the trenches east of Paris. Dead now for about 15 years, he died at age 99. He was The Quiet Man.
His only failure is that he didn't write memoirs. He saw a lot, between horse and buggy and the Space Shuttle. He was too humble to think that was important.