ON THIS DAY: 18TH OCTOBER 1899: Death of Eoghan Ó Gramhnaigh (Fr. Eugene O’Growney) He was an Irish priest and scholar, and a key figure in the Gaelic revival of the late 19th century. As a young boy he was very interested in the Irish language and after being ordained a priest, became an editor […]
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 […]
“We are bound to love our own people with a special and peculiar love, a love that is not founded upon the common characteristics of the human race, but which is founded upon the special and distinctive character of our own nationality.” – Father Mícheál Ó Flannagáin Michael Flanagan was born near Castlerea in Co. […]
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 […]
“Our community is in a very tense situation at this moment in time.”
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 […]
A farmer’s son, Peadar Ó Laoghaire was born in Clondrohid, Cork, and grew up in the Muskerry Gaeltacht. The Ó Laoghaire family have been in this area for centuries and he was a descendant of the Carrignacurra branch of same family. Both his mother and father were of the Ó Laoghaire clan. His mother was a […]
Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha was born near Dingle, Co. Kerry in 1883, one of nine children to Patrick Sugrue and Ellen Cleary. He attended the local CBS until he was 16 where he was educated under English, and learned to read and write Irish from a local school master with the assistance of the Irish grammer […]
The Rural Independent Group has welcomed Seachtain na Gaeilge and called for a renewed focus on the future of the Irish language, saying a language defines a people, a culture and that “both are inseparable”. “Seachtain na Gaelige provides an opportunity to showcase our language and shine a light on the need for the State […]
ON THIS DAY: 18TH OCTOBER 1899: Death of Eoghan Ó Gramhnaigh (Fr. Eugene O’Growney) He was an Irish priest and scholar, and a key figure in the Gaelic revival of the late 19th century. As a young boy he was very interested in the Irish language and after being ordained a priest, became an editor […]
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 […]
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 […]