Msgr. Pádraig de Brún was born in Grangemockler, Tipperary in October 1889. His father was a school teacher and the young Pádraig was an excellent student, talented with many natural gifts. He was especially interested in the history of Ireland and the Gaelic language. He was particularly good and excelled at maths and studied it […]
Pádraic Ó Conaire was an Irish writer who wrote extensively in the Irish Language and wrote 26 books, 473 stories, 237 essays and 6 plays. His acclaimed novel Deoraíocht has been described by Angela Bourke as ‘the earliest example of modernist fiction in Irish’. Orphaned by the age of eleven, he spent a period living […]
“See, hear, learn, use and love the language.”
The founding members of a new green socialist party has suggested taking ” Irish out of schools so people who come from foreign countries don’t feel excluded”. Ex-Green Party members Cork City Councillor Lorna Bogue and South Dublin County Councillor Liam Sinclair sit on the interim committee of the new party. The suggestion regarding the […]
Vincent F Pintado’s Old Celtic Dictionary is a first of its kind, bringing together the fruit of 30 years of labour. This is the first time all these ancient Celtic words have been researched and brought together in one volume. Along with the dictionary, an inter-Gaeilig chart is included at the back. This chart shows […]
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 […]
Irish is officially the first language of the State, but it rarely feels that’s actually the case. Despite the fact that 40% of our citizens are able to speak Irish, while 21% of people, according to the last Census, speak Irish daily outside the education system, Gaeilge rarely seems to be afforded the respect it […]
Chuir na Sasanaigh tús le córas oideachais do pháistí na tíre ag tús na 1830idí. Ba í an phríomhchúis leis ná aigne na ndaoine a chur faoi smacht agus an Ghaeilge a bhriseadh in Éirinn. Bhí ar na páistí ‘an phaidir’ seo a rá ag tús gach lá scoile, ‘I thank the goodness and the […]
Pádraic Ó Conaire was an Irish writer who wrote extensively in the Irish Language and wrote 26 books, 473 stories, 237 essays and 6 plays. His acclaimed novel Deoraíocht has been described by Angela Bourke as ‘the earliest example of modernist fiction in Irish’. Orphaned by the age of eleven, he spent a period living […]
Rugadh Ciarán i gContae Ros Comáin sa bhliain 516. Siúinéir agus déantóir carbaid ab ea a athair Uaireanta tugtar ‘Ciarán Óg’ air chun idirdhealú a dheánamh idir é féin agus Ciarán an Seanóir a bhí ina easpag ar Osraighe sa 5ú haois. Airítear é ar dhuine de ‘Dháréag Aspal na hÉireann’. Seo an bealach a […]
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A woman has lost her bid to have her mother’s tombstone engraved with a saying written in Irish without translation in an English cemetery. BBC reports that Caroline Newey’s mother, Margaret Keane died two years ago and is buried in the cemetery at the Meadows in Ash Green, Coventry. Mrs Newey wanted her mother’s headstone […]