November 2011
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Thousands learning the Irish Language in the... →
Madeleine Ni Ghallcobhair, a Fulbright Scholar from an Irish-speaking area of Ireland called a Gaeltacht, set up the projector and faced a class of 12 undergraduate students at Manhattan College in the Bronx. Basic Irish language vocabulary studded the screen: “Is maith liom – I like.” Ni Ghallcobhair addressed a girl in a green Ireland sweatshirt. “An maith leat e?” she said while gesturing to...
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Part of a story I've been working on (more to...
lebensform:
Uair amháin, bhí fear agus a bhean ina gcónaí in Éirinn. Ba an fear ghaiscíoch mór agus bhí grá go mór ag a bhean dó. Go minic, ní raibh sé sa bhaile ach ag cosaint an ríocht ar an rí agus chronaigh a bhean é go mór. Gach am tháinig sé abhaile chaoir sí deaora áthais nuair a chonaic sí é. Bhí said an-shona le cheile agus bhí a fhios sin ag a bhean ní ghortódh sé í.
Lá amháin, bhí an...
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New Diploma in teaching art through Irish →
NCAD, in conjunction with Gaelchultúr, will be offering a one-year part-time Diploma in Teaching through Irish (Art), from the end of January 2012. This programme, which is being supported by COGG www.cogg.ie, is aimed at art teachers who are working in Irish-medium and Gaeltacht schools or who wish to do so in the future. The course is also suitable for primary school teachers who wish to teach...
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Scoileanna lán-Ghaeilge chun tosaigh →
D’oscail an tAire Stáit Oiliúna agus Scileanna, Ciarán Cannon comhdháil bhliantúil Ghaelscoileanna ar an Tulach Mór ar maidin.
D’aithin an tAire éileamh suntasach an phobail ar oideachas trí mheán na Gaeilge ag gach leibhéal agus thug sé aitheantas do thábhacht na scoileanna lán-Ghaeilge chomh maith.
Beidh an chomhdháil oideachais ar siúl ar feadh dhá lá agus ar na hábhair is mó a bheidh faoi...
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Irish directors honour their own →
DONALD CLARKE
REEL NEWS: Veteran Irish documentary film-maker Louis Marcus has been awarded the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland and Foras na Gaeilge special prizes for outstanding work with the Irish language. The great man received an elegant plaque and a cheque for €5,000.
“For myself, I’m greatly honoured to receive this award from my fellow directors and Foras na Gaeilge,” Marcus said at...
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Daniel's on song with first tune as Gaeilge →
A NEW CD featuring the first ever recording of Daniel O’Donnell singing in Irish will be launched in order to raise funds for a local cancer charity.
‘Le Cuidiu De’ is a compilation of 14 new songs, all written in Irish by Eileen Ni Bhaoill, from Dungloe, Co Donegal.
It is the culmination of work by Ms Ni Bhaoill and Maighread Hanlon, who both felt that traditional music...
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Miann óige imrighe.
seanmacdiarmada:
“Youth likes to flit away.”
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Togha meaisínghunna atá ansan agat, a dhuine...
saybzzz:
‘Tis a grand machine gun you have there, officer ;)
Go raibh tú leathuair ar Neamh sula mbeadh a fios...
Níl mé ag iarraidh éisteacht le do chac bó -.-
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TG4: Fifteen years on, our best TV is still coming... →
Fifteen years on the go, 15 years on the grow: a hearty ‘bualadh bos’ to you, TG4, and a hearty ‘told you so’ to all the doubters and cynics.
When the brainchild of our new president, Michael D Higgins, debuted on Irish screens at the end of October 1996, naysayers and sceptics lined up to prophesy disaster. What a waste of taxpayers’ money, they wailed. Why...
To anyone who is even remotely interested in the...
the-froosh:
Okay, so even if you only learnt Irish in primary school, you’ll know that any of the letters á, é, í, ó or ú, are called ‘a fada’, ‘e fada’ and so on.
But, look at that. The word ‘fada’ means ‘long’ in Irish. Yeah, simple stuff. But this means that á translates to a ‘long a’. Okay, still simple.
Having two ‘fadas’ in my name, it’s fun to spell out to people who don’t speak Irish....
“Is poll dubh dóite é an t-uaigness, ach má dhúnann tú suas é, dúnfaidh tú amach...”
– (via misledghost)
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Do I have many Irish followers?
jessatr0n:
Let’s have secret conversations in Irish..
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Oireachtas na Samhna →
1-6 November, Killarney, Co. Kerry
Ireland’s longest-running arts festival, Oireachtas na Samhna, will be held in the popular Kerry tourist town of Killarney. The word Oireachtas means a meeting or congregation of ruling authorities in the 7th century. To this day, Oireachtas na Gaeilge follows the tradition established by our ancestors hundreds of years ago, welcoming young and old, the...
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'Mind Your Language' says Minister →
A review of the Official Languages Act 2003 - in line with the commitment specified in the Programme for Government - is now underway. The main objective of the Act is to ensure the enhanced provision of public services with the Minister of State for the Gaeltacht, Dinny McGinley today (Thursday) announcing that the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has commenced the initiative....
