“There’s nobody living that can tell anyone where to put the grace notes,” Joe Éinniú once told an interviewer. The best songs had to be learned over years of listening, and sung with great passion and deep feeling. He preferred the laments – Caoineadh na dTrí Mhuire, Anach Chuain, Úna Bhán – the great Conamara […]
Rugadh é ar 10 Bealtaine 1884
Sa bhliain 1844, tháinig aicíd nua ar na prátaí i Meiriceá Thuaidh. An aicíd dhubh a bhí ann. Níorbh fhada gur shroich sí an tír seo. I mí Mheán Fómhair na bliana 1845 tugadh faoi dheara í den chéad uair, i bPort Láirge agus i Loch Garman. Mí ina dhiaidh sin bhí sí tar éis […]
Café Aon Scéal
Is oileán beag creagach é Sceilig Mhicíl atá suite thart ar 15 chiliméadair amach ó chósta dheisceart Chiarraí.
Sybil and Feidelm
Tá an leabhar Gaeilge ársa, Leabhar Laighneach, le hathchóiriú, le digitiú agus le cur ar taispeáint i gColáiste na Trionóide
Cuireadh tús leis an bpróiséas chun Acht Gaeilge a chur i bhfeidhm sna Sé Chontae le foilsiú ‘An Bille Féiniúlachta agus Teanga (Tuaisceart Éireann)’ i dTeach na dTiarnaí, i Westminister Dé Céadaoin seo caite. Mar thoradh air beidh stádas oifigiúil ag an nGaeilge sa tuaisceart den chéad uair. Gealladh an reachtaíocht seo chomh fada siar […]
Irish language film, An Cailín Ciúin, which has won a major award at the Berlinale Film Festival, will be released in cinemas across Ireland and the UK from May 12th. An Cailín Ciúin tells the story of Cáit (Catherine Clinch) – a nine year-old girl from an overcrowded, dysfunctional family who is sent away to live with […]
It is said that a civilisation turns through cycles; through four ages, finishing in decay and rebirth. The great Arabic historian of the 14th Century, Ibin Khaldun, framed this as a culture’s will to live, and the vitality of this he termed the “asabiyyah”. The cycle of culture echoes the seasons of a human life which […]
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