Eastáit na Sí

...de la Irish Times:

Ghost Estates are a recent phenomenon. Housing developments lie empty throughout the country, thanks to the magical disappearing act of the Celtic Tiger. Being a recent Irish phenomenon, it has taken a little time for Irish language wordsmiths to come up with a translation.

“Eastáit na Si” or “Fairy Estates” is, of course, open to misinterpretation in today’s sexually-oriented parlance, but is an elegant Gaelicisation of this modern landmark feature and can be linked to the longstanding regard in which the Irish have held the “little people” or those from an “domhan eile”…

...My proposal is to designate a number of these estates as new Gaeltachtaí. There hasn’t been a new Gaeltacht, officially, since 1956, when the current boundaries for the Irish- speaking areas were set in legislation by Patrick Lindsay, the then Minister for the Gaeltacht.

There have been other attempts to establish Gaeltachtaí by dedicated communities in Cork and Belfast and these have had spectacular success with a significant benefit to society as a whole – though they haven’t received official recognition…

Novaj Limoj por la Irlandalingvujo

…de la Connacht Sentinel:

Knocknacarra, Terryland and Menlo may lose out.

A 20-year blueprint for the Gaeltacht due out next month will recommend a redrawing of the boundaries, which will have major implications for the city with large suburbs contained within its realm.

Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív said this week that he will seek the postponement of the Údarás na Gaeltachta elections, due to be held by next October, because of the implications of the report. He will have to seek Dáil approval of the postponement by way of an amendment to legislation.

An array of grants payable for housing programmes, Irish speaking children and various social programmes and businesses have been available in Gaeltacht areas, which encompass several suburbs of the city.

Knocknacarra, Menlo and Terryland are all officially within the Gaeltacht, although for the last five years Polish has been become the second language rather than Irish with the multicultural mix that has evolved.

Under revised boundaries these are likely to be taken out of the Gaeltacht, Minister Ó Cuív said.
“This 20-year strategy will deal with the definition of the Gaeltacht, which is based on a 1956 Act – it’s very dated. It will also look at how we can develop the Irish language and how to develop it around Gaelscoileanna and where there are clusters of Gaelic speakers that are outside the Gaeltacht,” he said.

“Is maith an t-anlann…”

…de la Sunday Business Post:

Chef Sauce, a Jacob Fruitfield brand, is to sponsor the new season of TG4’s award-winning soap opera, Ros na Run.Chef said the move would reinforce its association with the Irish language.

‘‘Chef has already established a strong association with the Irish language, through our popular TV ad set in the Gaeltacht and our subsequent sponsorship of the Des Bishop show, In the Name of the Fada,” said Loretta Dignam, marketing director of the Jacob Fruitfield Food Group.

‘‘As a strong Irish brand, we are very happy to further strengthen that association through the Ros na Run sponsorship.”

Ros na Run has been an anchor in the TG4 programme schedule since the channel began broadcasting in 1996. It airs five times a week and is produced in the Galway Gaeltacht by independent producers Eo Teilifis and Leirithe Thir Eoghain.

Serĝento Seamus O’Fianghusa

…de la Irish Voice:

Sergeant Seamus O’Fianghusa was born patriotic. At a young age he knew serving his country was something that was a must.

He also realized learning the language of his Irish ancestors was a high priority.

Growing up bi-lingual, (his father, James, is Irish American and his mother, Helen, is Korean), the 33-year-old U.S. Army sergeant wasn’t content with just speaking English and Korean. He wanted to learn Irish.

“My father used to speak a lot about the Gaeilge and I knew someday that it would be my duty to learn this language, the language of my ancestors,”…

…It was an encounter with a native Irish speaker from Donegal a few years ago that got O’Fianghusa’s skates on.

“I met a lady from the Gaeltacht in Donegal who was fluent in Irish and I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t speak her -- and my -- language,” he said.

“Right there and then I made a decision to learn Irish. I couldn’t delay it any longer.”

In a short few months, O’Fianghusa, who studied linguistics in college, was spouting the Irish language just like the natives in Donegal….

Mná Tí Abú!

…de Highland Security:

Donegal Mna Ti to take part in "Bord Snip" protest Aug 26, 7:46 am

Mna Ti from all over Donegal are expected to travel to Galway next week to take part in a national protest over the Bord Snip recommendations to cut funding for summer Irish colleges.

The protest is being organised by the Federation of Irish Summer Colleges who believe that the industry could be wiped out if the proposals were to be implemented.

Irish language organisation Conradh na Gaelige is calling on all those involved to show their support on Tuesday.

President of the organisation Pádraig Mac Fhearghusa says Mna Ti in Donegal are already struggling to house students on a slim budget and any further cuts would have a devastating result.

Peticio por Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge

Iarraimidne, saoránaigh de chuid na hÉireann a bhfuil ár n-ainm leis seo, ar ár dTaoiseach Brian Ó Comhain tacaíocht agus cosaint a thabhairt do ghluaiseacht na gColáistí Gaeilge trí Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge a chaomhnú...

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Ni, la mal, civitanoj de la Irlanda Respubliko, alvok nia Taoiseach Brian Cowen promesi protekti kaj subteno la estonteco de Irlandalingvaj Kolegioj tra la konservo de Scéim bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge…
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*** Klaku ĉi tie signi la peticion. / Gliogáil anseo chuige an achainí a shíniú.

La Nor-Amerika Irlandalingvujo

…de la Napanee Guide:

A handful of enthusiasts are gathering near Erinsville this week to explore Irish language and culture.

Teachers and students pitched tents on Sunday night 20 minutes north of Napanee at the Gaeltacht in Erinsville, a 60-acre property that has been officially designated by the Irish government as an Irish-speaking region. It is the first of its kind in North America.

Sheila Scott has been involved with the project since its inception in 2007. Though she is pleased with the course of events, she hopes that the immersion week will continue to grow each year.

“We want this to be very welcoming to anybody who might want to participate,” says Scott. “The township has really embraced the idea of this place, and we want as many people in the area as possible to be involved, and we want to give back to the community.”

Participants will come and go throughout the week, some staying for the whole event and others spending as little as a day or two. Whatever length of time chosen, the event promises exposure to some fascinating Irish arts, such as dancing, pottery, stained glass, story telling, singing and various other music workshops, and of course instruction in the Irish language...

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[*** Sheila estas membro kaj Vicprezidanto de la Nordamerika Asocio de Keltalingvaj Instruistoj. ..Ŝi prezentis paperojn ĉe niaj Konferencoj.]

Cripil Inis Meáin

…de la Irish Times:

Small and big worlds collide in Martin McDonagh’s Cripil Inis Meáin, and no more so than in the Irish language translation of the play, performed during the Galway Arts Festival’s first week by An Taibhdhearc.

The venue was Amharclann Chois Fharraige in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán, within clear view of the Aran Islands framed by a setting sun.

The national Irish language theatre has been borrowing locations since a fire at its premises in November, 2007, and set designer Dara McGee made the most of the Sailearna school stage where a week of performances were sold out every night. Translator Micheál Ó Conghaíle recalls, in his programme notes, how he once worked in a shop similar to that run in the play by the Osbourne sisters (Bridie Ní Churraoin and Bríd Ní Neachtain) selling plugs of tobacco, bags of tea and eggs, and collecting story after story from customers in return....

Mini-Irlandalingvujo

...de la Herald:

Four students have moved into DIT's first mini -Gaeltacht for a year of living through Irish.
This pilot initiative is part of an effort to promote the language within the college.

All four students were chosen for their enthusiasm for the language.

None of them are from Gaeltacht areas and will experience living in their native tongue for the first time.

Final year Media Arts student Susan McDaid, Interior Architecture student Fiona Lemasney and Journalism with Irish students Clar Ni Chuilleainn and Aoife Ni Ghlaicin-Riain moved into to their Leeson Street apartment this week.

The girls have varying levels of Irish and three of them study the language as part of their courses in DIT.

Now they will be part of the first ever mini-Gaeltacht project to be run by the college...

Gabriel Byrne

...de la Brooklyn Heights Blog:

Brooklyn Heights resident/actor Gabriel Byrne is the latest patron of Belfast’s Aisling Ghear, an Irish language theater company.

The group has extended an invitation to the actor, who was born in Dublin, to visit them this year. The troupe’s GM, Carrie-Anne McAlonan-McCrudden, tells the Belfast Telegraph that having “avid” Irish speaking Byrne as their patron will be great for them.

She adds, “It’s nice for us, and nice for him to be associated with us as well. He has been very supportive of Irish language projects in the past…

It consigns some kind of artistic merit, that we have become established and reached a level of quality where we have a Hollywood actor associated with us.”

Colm Mac Con Iomaire

…de Hot Press:

Frames violinist Colm Mac Con Iomaire gives his The Hare’s Corner solo album the official launch treatment this September when he plays – where else? – Whelan’s.

Colm will launch his new solo record on September 7 in Whelan's, Dublin.

While not out and out trad, the collection has a pronounced Irish flavour.

“The phrase ‘The Hare’s Corner’ comes from the ancient Irish custom of at harvest time leaving a corner of a field uncut for the hare to escape to,” he explains. “I first heard my father Liam, mention the phrase in a conversation we had about the famous writer and Irish language activist Máirtín Ó Cadhain. Ó Cadhain identified the Gaeltachtaí as being like the Hare's Corner of Ireland.

Thankfully the linguistic uniqueness of the Gaeltacht endures, but our language is still in jeopardy.”

Coláiste Aodáin

…de la Sunday Business Post:

The Jesuits like to describe their education philosophy as ‘give me the boy and I’ll give you the man’.

Caoimhín Ó hEaghra is no Jesuit, but he says that if you give him your child for three weeks in the summer, he will give you back someone who speaks Irish and who has a real love of Irish culture.

Ó hEaghra, 37, is the director of Coláiste Aodáin, a new Irish college in his home village of An Cheathrú Rua in the south Connemara Gaeltacht. The area featured in the television series made by comedian Des Bishop, In The Name Of The Fada...

"Dingle Daingean Ui Chuis"

…de Agence France-Presse:

The town of Dingle, one of Ireland's best-known tourist destinations, won its battle on Tuesday against a government edict to adopt the Irish language version of its name.

Under a 2004 order enacted by Irish Affairs Minister Eamon O Cuiv, Dingle became Daingean as part of a move requiring over 2,300 towns to adopt Gaelic names.

The order reversed a British mapping programme that started in 1824 and resulted in mainly anglicised names.

But in a local plebiscite two years ago, 1,005 of the 1,222 residents of the southwestern town opted for the bilingual compromise of "Dingle Daingean Ui Chuis"...

Raidió na Gaeltachta

...de la Irish Independent:

There are no plans to allow any advertising on Irish language radio station Raidio na Gaeltachta despite interest from some potential advertisers.

The head of advertisers' body IAPI told the Irish Independent that RnaG could certainly secure some advertising "if the price was right".

"With Irish becoming an EU language you'd have advertising from Government departments, then there's the likes of Conradh na Gaeilge, and then there's all the brands associated with Gaelic games," said IAPI's Sean McCrave.

"There's also been a real revival in Irish amongst the nouveau riche, so you could see some interest in advertisers targeting them."...

Dentkuracado en la Irlandalingvujo

…de Irish Dentist:

The Tuarascáil Bhliantúil Annual Report 2007, launched on 8 April, has revealed the Health Service Executive, as a result of an investigation, apologised for providing public health dental services in English only for a Gaeltacht school, in breach of an agreed statutory obligation.

A parent of a child attending a national school in the Gaeltacht complained to the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs at the end of April 2007 that a Health Service Executive dentist working in the school on 24 April dealt with her child through English.

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Afiŝo de Glór na nGael

An bhFuil Cead Agam?

…de la Irish Film & Television Network:

Mind the Gap Films has launched a nationwide search for participants for their latest documentary series ‘An Bhfuil Cead Agam’. Producers want children to nominate their parents and “turn the tables on the annual Irish bootcamp” by sending them to the Gaeltacht.

For one week in July five men and five women will be banned from talking English, will have to work out shower rosters, soothe their blistered feet after an overly energetic Céilí and be in bed by 10pm, all under the strict supervision of a seasoned Bean an Tí.

Along the way they’ll be expected, like everyone else at the Gaeltacht, to learn a lot of Irish in a very short space of time. The cameras will be there 24/7, exposing the goody two shoes who never steps out of line and the rebels who try to sneak out to the pub at every turn…

Éamon Ó Cuív en Usono

...de la Press Association:

Ireland needs 250,000 Gaelic speakers by 2028 to save the future of the language, Gaeltacht Minister Eamon O Cuiv has said.

Speaking during a visit to the US, Mr O'Cuiv called for more courage and leadership to ensure the native tongue thrives in a globalised world.

The Government is currently preparing a 20-year strategy for the Irish language, due to be launched before the end of the year…

Duonirlandalingvujo

...de la Irish Independent:

The population of the Gaeltacht could be cut by more than half and Dingle could lose its designated all-Irish status if the Government introduced new linguistic criteria.

The criteria are set out in a detailed study on the use of Irish in Gaeltacht areas which was commissioned by the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and published late last year.

Now a detailed analysis of that study, carried out by maths lecturer and Connemara-based Gaeltacht expert Donncha O hEallaithe, has revealed the full implications of the findings and recommendations.

Currently, the Gaeltacht areas of the country have a population of 95,500, but following a comprehensive analysis of each of the 162 electoral divisions making up the official Gaeltacht, Mr O hEallaithe has revealed that the population would drop to 44,000.

Towns such as Dingle, Belmullet in Co Mayo, Dungloe and Burtonport, in Co Donegal, and parts of Galway city would all lose their Gaeltacht status if the linguistic criteria were to be implemented...

Limoj de la Irlandalingvujo

...de Foinse:

Ba chóir Coimisiún Neamhspleách nach mbeadh aon ionadaíocht pholaitiúil air a bhunú le tabhairt faoi cheist theorainneacha na Gaeltachta, dar le hurlabhraí Gaeltachta Fhine Gael, Michael Ring.

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Bhí an Teachta Dála Ring ag aontú le moladh atá déanta mar chuid den anailís chuimsitheach ar staid na Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht atá foilsithe ar Foinse na seachtaine seo.

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San anailís sin, leis an léachtóir matamaitice ó GMIT, Donncha Ó hÉallaithe, moltar Coimisiún Neamhspleách de chúigear saineolaithe, ar a mhéid, le nuatheorainneacha na Gaeltachta a rianú i bhfianaise a bhfuil molta sa Staidéar Teangeolaíoch ar Úsáid na Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht a foilsíodh anuraidh.

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Sa staidéar sin leagadh síos critéir chun idirdhealú a dhéanamh idir na limistéir éagsúla Gaeltachta agus moladh go dtabharfaí stádas Catagóir A, B nó C do na limistéir éagsúla ag brath ar a láidre is a bhí an teanga iontu….

…Dúirt an Teachta Dála ó Pháirtí an Lucht Oibre agus an t-iarAire Gaeltachta Michael D Higgins le Foinse nach mbeadh sé “i gcoinne” Coimisiún Neamhspleách a bhunú chun tabhairt faoi theorainneacha na Gaeltachta. Dúirt sé, áfach, nár chóir go mbeadh gá leis agus gur cheart go mbeadh Airí “go maith in ann cinneadh a dhéanamh faoi cheist atá chomh soiléir”.

Ĉikaga Irlanda Filma Festo

...de la Southtown Star:

The ninth annual Chicago Irish Film Festival will show off the Green Island's splendor as well as some of its dark corners…

…"Oilean Thorai: Tory Island" and "The McDonagh Pictures," two documentaries, will screen together at 2 p.m. Saturday.

The first is the portrait of a remote island where 150 people live off the coast of Ireland…

…"Poitin," which was the first film ever released in the Irish language when it came out in 1977, will be screened 2 p.m. Sunday.

Directed by Bob Quinn, "Poitin" focuses on a whisky bootlegger exacting revenge on two agents who have cheated him.

"When it was first released, it was booed," Blackburn said, explaining that people in the 1970s felt the movie presented a negative view of Ireland.

Since then, "Poitin" has come to be seen as a classic. The film's back now, with remastered image and sound as well as a new musical score.

"Poitin" will be shown with "Cinegael Paradiso," a documentary by the director's son, Robert Quinn...