Keltaj Manĝaĵoj kaj Lingvoj

...de la Vancouver Sun:

It's not exactly historically, ancestrally, culturally, politically, or even culinarily correct, but when we think Celtic celebration, we think Irish pubs, a free flow of Guinness thickened with Irish stew.

What's wrong with that, you say?

Nothing, really, except that it's not quite the whole shebang. (That last phrase, by the way, has an Irish origin, from the word shebeen, or dwelling.) Celtic nations that have retained their Celtic languages and culture are Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany, as well as Ireland. But historically, Celtic ancestry stretches to northern Portugal and Spain…

WikiKernow

...de This is Cornwall:

A new guide to Cornwall has been launched online so it can be compiled and edited by members of the public.

Cornwall and Devon Media, publishers of your Cornish Guardian, Cornishman and West Briton, has set up wikikernow.co.uk for locals and visitors to make their own guide.

Based on the hugely popular wikipedia format, the website has already been populated with a layer of information about Cornish towns, villages and topics. From smuggling, shipwrecks and gig boat racing to the Cornish language, emblems and the local economy...

Gaël Roblin

...de Rennes-Infhonet:

A lui tout seul, Gaël Roblin est un emblème de la Bretagne libre. Celle qui se bat pour l'indépendantisme depuis des années. Pourtant, pas grand chose ne le prédestinait à être hissé à un tel rang. Ce sont plutôt les circonstances qui ont décidé pour lui...

…Son parcours professionnel vient ensuite forger ses convictions. Il se fait d'abord recruter en tant qu'ouvrier dans le bâtiment, en même temps qu'il noue ses premiers contacts avec Emgann, la Gauche indépendantiste. Nous somme alors en 1987. Il pose ensuite ses bagages à l'école Diwan de Nantes, en tant que personnel non enseignant. « J'ai dû faire tous les postes là-bas, à part celui d'instit' », rigole-t-il. « Ça m'a aussi permis de parfaire mon niveau en langue bretonne ». Après cette expérience dans l'univers bretonnant, il retourne travailler dans le bâtiment, en tant que couvreur. « Ce parcours m'a donné le goût de l'engagement syndical ».

Ĉesando la Irlandalingvon

...de la Irish Independent:

The number of secondary school students gaining exemption from studying Irish because they have a 'learning difficulty' is rocketing.

But the rapid growth was blamed last night on parents who pay for private psychological reports which say that their children need exemption from the language...

Emblemo por la Skotgaelalingvo

...de la Stornoway Gazette:

Would a 'Logo' help to promote Gaelic?

We hear much about the costs incurred by businesses and projects in creating or renewing logos and mottos e.g. the London Olympics (did any one make sense of their logo after £400,000 was spent to create it?). Lothian and Borders Police have now spent £120,000 on a new logo which they hope will make their staff and vehicles more identifiable and amenable to the public.

I am not sure that it was necessary to replace the old logo at such a cost to the public purse. Some members of the public said they would have preferred to see four more bobbies on the beat. However, it brought to mind a thought that perhaps a logo could be beneficial to the promotion of Gaelic…

… The Ulpan courses for Gaelic learners have started in Edinburgh and according to reports, they are in great demand…

Úna Quinn

....de la Mayo News:

Úna Quinn is easy to describe, but impossible to define. A retiree. A mother and grandmother. A widow. A Gaeilgeoir. An academic. A musician. A teacher. So many attributes – and yet none which fully captures her.

When you talk to this Westport woman, it’s best to leave your stereotypes and preconceptions at the door, because you won’t be needing them. Úna Quinn is more than the sum of the parts that have made up her life. And what an interesting and fulfilled life it has been….

…One of the ‘vibes’ picked up by the young Úna was a love for the Irish language – and it has remained a constant thread in her life ever since.

“We were reared through Irish and spoke Irish all the time at home. My mother got first place in her training college when she was leaving because of her standard of Irish and, as a result, though she was trained as a primary school teacher, she was offered a teaching post in the training college in Tourmakeady, which she took and where she remained for her career,” recalls Úna...

Narnia…en le Kimralingvo

...de la Western Mail:

Cynon Valley’s Welsh language comprehensive school has staged a special production – the first of its kind in Wales.

Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun pupils played to a packed Coliseum Theatre with a production of Cantre’r Cwpwrdd.

The Aberdare venue was transformed into the magical land of Narnia when they staged the first ever-Welsh language production of C S Lewis’s classic tale of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

The script was translated, produced and directed by the school’s head of drama Rhian Staples...

Le Cheval

...de Le Télégramme:

Entendre Jacques Dufilho ou Michel Blanc dans un parfait breton du Pays bigouden. La scène sera bientôt une réalité. En cours de doublage, Le Cheval d’orgueil, réalisé en 1980 dans le Pays bigouden, sera bientôt diffusé en langue bretonne, sur internet et, peut-être, dans quelques salles de cinéma. Une première pour un long-métrage.

Depuis hier et pendant trois jours, vingt-cinq comédiens amateurs et professionnels approfondissent leur connaissance du breton bigouden à Pouldreuzic, la terre natale de Pierre-Jakez Hélias, l’auteur du livre adapté à l’écran par Claude Chabrol.

« La semaine prochaine et pendant dix jours, ils vont entrer en studio, à Lorient, pour le doublage du film », explique Lionel Buannic, coproducteur du doublage et créateur de Brezhoweb, la TV Web qui diffusera le film. À ses côtés, Dizale et surtout Canal +.

Kandidatoj kaj la Bretonalingvo

...de Ouest-France:

17 associations culturelles avaient interrogé les cinq candidats.

Leurs réponses sont contrastées.

Dix-sept associations et fédérations culturelles bretonnes ont interpellé les candidats de Quimper.

Les listes de Bernard Poignant, Isabelle Le Bal, Daniel Le Bigot, Marcelle Ramonet et Janine Carrasco ont rendu réponse.

Cette dernière a choisi de se positionner par rapport à la charte Ya d'ar brezhoneg, dont elle approuve 12 des 28 objectifs...

Letero de Éanna Ó Cionnaith, TD

Éanna Ó Cionnaith, TD
Sráid Uí Thuachair
Caisleán an Bharraigh, Co. Mhaigh Eo

ríomhphost: enda.kenny@oireachtas.ie

C’hoariva

…de Le Télégramme:

Développer la pratique théâtrale en langue bretonne, avec le souci de relever la qualité artistique des productions, telle est la mission de l’association régionale C’hoariva.

L’association régionale C’hoariva (« théâtre » en breton) a été créée en 2005 pour fédérer les troupes de théâtre professionnelles ou amateurs de Bretagne (*). Elle en regroupe seize pour l’instant, dont trois professionnelles et une semi-professionnelle.

Son but est de développer la pratique théâtrale en langue bretonne, avec le souci de relever la qualité artistique des productions.

La formation des acteurs amateurs et des techniciens est donc au programme de l’association, qui noue des contacts avec les réseaux locaux, dont celui de la Maison du théâtre...

Nuacht RTÉ

...de Silicon Republic:

RTÉ has created the world’s first daily multimedia news website in the Irish language.

The State broadcaster has announced that its Irish language service Nuacht is online at www.rte.ie/nuacht. The site will feature news output in Irish from across RTÉ TV and Raidió na Gaeltachta, as well as specialist programming...

Glen Hansard

...de la New York Times:

For some Irish people who watched the Oscars last week, pride was tinged with shame when their countryman won the Academy Award for best song — and promptly botched an attempt to say “thank you” in his nation’s native tongue.

Glen Hansard, a native of Dublin who won for the song “Falling Slowly” from the Irish independent movie “Once,” tried in his acceptance speech to say “thanks a million” in Irish, the ancient Celtic language known to Americans as Gaelic.

But, in addressing the thousands of Academy members who had voted for him and the many millions of people worldwide watching on TV, Mr. Hansard said “thank you” using the singular form. That would be similar to addressing the French with “merci à toi,” rather than “merci à vous.”

Considering that Irish schoolchildren must take at least 12 years of Gaelic, it’s not as if he never had the chance to learn.

“He said, ‘Go raibh míle, míle, maith agat,’ but he should have said ‘agaibh’ ” as the final word, said Mary Haslam, a native of Limerick who teaches French at New York University. “I was cringing a bit because I’m a language teacher, but nobody seems to have picked up on that.” ...

Stevie Davies

...de la Western Mail:

The Welsh have been nomads – within our own country and beyond, dispersing like seeds all over the globe, impelled by penury, hunger, unemployment, missionary zeal, intolerance and British military adventure.

This evening I am holding at the centre of my mind the two-way progress, our double-bound journeys – out of Wales, back to Wales.

I’m aware of our double linguistic inheritance: yr hen iaith, exiled and reclaimed; our English tongue, imposed and then embraced as our own.