RED LINE FESTIVAL LAUNCHES AN EXCITING PROGRAMME FOR ALL AGES AND INTERESTS
This year, Red Line Festival will present events in six different strands As Gaeilge, Literary, Sport & Wellbeing, Music & Performance, Crime & Horror and Family.
Gorey’s first naíonra will give Wexford children the opportunity to learn and play through Irish
Based in Gaelscoil Moshíológ, Naíonra na Síolta Óga is the first Irish language pre-school to be established in Gorey.
TG4 proposes to spend €5.6m on new children’s TV channel
Irish-language channel would air on Saorview and would not carry adverts.
From Navan to Inis Meáin rent free for nine months
It’s something we’ve dreamed of for years, to find a place in the Gaeltacht. We couldn’t believe it when we saw the advertisement, the timing was right with the kids at the age they are.
Number of Irish-medium post-primary schools in Northern Ireland set to double
There were more than 7,000 pupils in Irish-medium education in the 2021/22, a rise of about 1,300 pupils in five years.
The unique ‘Ossory’ dialect of Irish once spoken in Kilkenny
Rián O’Kelly, a young scholar with a passion for linguistics, has been steadily collating some of the primary characteristics of the Irish that was once spoken in Kilkenny, i.e. ‘the Ossory dialect’.
Additional funding worth €420,000 for language planning process announced
the annual funding to be made available in future for the specific Gaeltacht Service Towns located in the Gaeltacht is being increased from €80,000 to €100,000 per year.
Thumbs-up for building of two new Gaelscoileanna
The new schools planned will be built at Coláiste Chilliain on Old Nangor Road and will be three-storeys high providing 16 classrooms each, a shared general-purpose area and ancillary teaching and staff accommodation.
New scheme to encourage college students to speak more Irish welcomed
Gníomhaí Gaeilge aims to normalise the use of the Irish language as part of everyday life in higher education.
Day in the Life: Digital creator using social media to promote the Irish language
For Loretta Gavin, who runs creative digital agency Lorg Media in Galway, the Irish language is central to her working day.
