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My first language is Gaelic.

I used to go to a Gaelic class on a Saturday morning, but I never felt myself that I could speak it properly.

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

When I visited Ireland with my father and heard the people on the farm talking, I couldn't believe the gift of language they had. I felt very untalented.

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.

I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.

My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!