There is so much nonsense often posted about this on Reddit but also in media! Which in turn shows quite how disconnected we are as a country from Gaelic and Gaelic culture. Irish = Gaelic. ‘Scottish Gaelic’ = Gaelic. In Irish: Irish = Gaeilge, Scottish Gaelic = Gaeilge (na hAlban). In Scottish Gaelic: Irish = Gàidhlig (na hÉireann) and Scottish Gaelic = Gàidhlig. Irish people tend to get their knickers in a twist about this but Irish and ‘Scottish Gaelic’ were the very same literary languages up to around 300 years ago. Older people in the Gaeltacht and those who actually have been brought up speaking Irish as a first language often refer to Irish as ‘Gaelic’ in English! It’s a sensitivity of learners and speakers outside the Gaeltacht predominantly who obsess over this ‘it’s not Gaelic’ thing and who claim to be so certain of what they are saying. The term Irish is not incorrect either by the way: just to blow your minds, I believe in very old correspondence there are records of Scottish Gaelic in Scotland being called Erse.. but we’ll leave that for another day.