Rugadh é ar 10 Bealtaine 1884
Is ceann de na teangacha is ársa sa domhan í an Ghaeilge, téanga a labhraíodh in Éirinn fad is a bhí Éireannaigh ina gcónaí anseo.
Seachtain na Gaeilge
Ferdiad? Was he down the pub with Fintan and Fiachra for the rugby? And what does ‘ní tír gan teanga’ mean anyway? Irish revolutionary Pádraig Pearse wrote that a country without a language is a country without a soul, that there is no country without a language, and his words have been quoted endlessly by […]
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As Gaeilge
‘Increased opportunities for the language’
Gaelic language is ‘unique and beautiful’
Is Teanga Ghaelach í Manainnis a labhraítear in Oileán Mhanann. Tugtar Gaeilge Mhanann, Gaelg agus Gaelick uirthi chomh maith. Ba ionann í agus Gaeilge na hÉireann agus Gaeilge na hAlban araon le linn aimsir na Meán-Ghaeilge. Cé nach ionann iad anois tá an trí theanga sin fós an-ghar go deo lena chéile. Is é an […]
When I was small, one of the most exciting events of the year was going to the Fleadh Cheoil with my dad, Séamus. Thousands of people thronged the streets in Buncrana or Listowel or Kilkenny during those golden, halcyon days of traditional music, and most of them seemed to know him. It would take an […]
Tonight, one of the most sublime of Ireland’s sean-nós singers, Sarah Ghríallais, will sing at the Cobblestone, the pub and performance venue in Smithfield in Dublin that has been in the news of late. While the Cobblestone will be familiar to many as a pub where brilliant and authentic traditional music can be heard, not […]
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