100 bliain ó shin, ar an 7 Márta 1923
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Is oileán beag creagach é Sceilig Mhicíl atá suite thart ar 15 chiliméadair amach ó chósta dheisceart Chiarraí.
Lean an tuairisc ag éagaoineadh nach bhfuil a dhóthain ginmhillte in Éirinn.
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 […]
An Gaeilge i mbaol?
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 […]
Spring and Fall bookend the season of flourishing and withering, and so it is the title of Gerard Manley Hopkins address to a young girl, who laments the passing of the multitudes of leaves in autumn. In this poem the author questions a child, Margaret, over the cause of her grief. She grieves over the […]
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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 […]