Hawl i'r Iaith from Lleucu Meinir on Vimeo.
* CYFEIRIAD/ADRESO *
Osian Jones,
Rhif / No. DX8265,
HM Prison Altcourse,
Fazakerley,
Lerpwl, L97 LH,
Lloegr (UK)
Monday, 30 November 2009
Baronino Royall de Blaisdon
...de la Baronino Royall de Blaisdon:
In the St Andrews Agreement the Government committed to introducing an Irish Language Act reflecting on the experience of Wales and Ireland and to work with the incoming Executive to enhance and protect the development of the Irish language.
Subsequently, in the Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Act 2006, a duty was placed on the Northern Ireland Executive to adopt a strategy to enhance and protect the development of the Irish language.
This strategy is still in preparation.
In addition, the Government published two consultation papers, in December 2006 and March 2007, setting out its proposed approach to an Irish Language Act. However, at the point of devolution in May 2007 responsibility for the Irish language, and for taking forward any legislation in this area, passed to the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Pete Seeger
...de Léargas, la blogo de Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh:
...Soon we were gathered in a circle listening to Pete’s yarns. He is anatural story teller and within minutes he was singing for us to illustrate a point. His first songs were pop songs from the 1920’s and he sang a few bars to give us a flavour of that time.
‘Now here’s one an Irish plumber taught me forty years ago and he launched into Óró Sé Do Bheatha Bhaile.
‘Óró sé do bheatha bhaile. Oró sé do bheatha bhaile. Oró sé do bheatha baile. Anios ar theacht an tsamhraidh.’
This Blog is pleased to say that I sang close harmony on that one. Your man was green with envy. I was delighted with myself. Imagine Pete Seeger singing Oró Sé Do Bheatha Baile. With me !!!...
Breizh a Gan
...de Le Télégramme:
Depuis 1982, ce grand rassemblement de chorales se déroule chaque année dans une ville différente de Bretagne.
Un «Tro Breizh» des lieux prestigieux: cathédrales, basiliques, églises, mais aussi de grandes salles, telle Le Quartz, à Brest. Cette année c'est Tréguier, patrie de saint Yves, qui a été choisie.
La cathédrale résonnera d'ailleurs du «Cantique à saint Yves», lors du final, point d'orgue du concert où les six chorales vont chanter ensemble.
Un final qui se veut fédérateur de toutes les Bretagnes avec aussi l'incontournable «Bro Goz Ma Zadoù», chant emblématique de la Bretagne et hymne gallois «qui à chaque fois qu'on le chante procure un grand moment d'émotion aux chanteurs et auquel le public participe souvent», se réjouit Martine Le Gall....
Ar Redadeg
…de Ouest-France:
En mai 2008, la première édition de la Redadeg, une course-relais pédestre organisée à l'occasion des 30 ans de Diwan, avait réuni 10 000 participants de Nantes à Carhaix et récolté 66 000 €.
La deuxième édition partira de Rennes le 10 mai 2010 pour arriver à Pontivy le 15 mai en fin de journée.
Un relais sans étape de 1 200 km, de jour comme de nuit...
En mai 2008, la première édition de la Redadeg, une course-relais pédestre organisée à l'occasion des 30 ans de Diwan, avait réuni 10 000 participants de Nantes à Carhaix et récolté 66 000 €.
La deuxième édition partira de Rennes le 10 mai 2010 pour arriver à Pontivy le 15 mai en fin de journée.
Un relais sans étape de 1 200 km, de jour comme de nuit...
Gaelscéal
…de la Sunday Business Post:
The contract to publish an Irish language weekly paper has been awarded to a group called Torann na dTonn (Noise of the Waves).
The contract to publish an Irish language weekly paper has been awarded to a group called Torann na dTonn (Noise of the Waves).
Foras na Gaeilge, the crossborder Irish language body which awarded the contract, is meeting the company next week to discuss details.
The contract is worth €1.6 million over four years. The working title of the new publication is Gaelsceal. It will be full-colour and 32 pages. Torann na dTonn is a joint venture between the Galway-based Connacht Tribune newspaper group and Connemara-based EoTeilifis, a TV production and new media company.
The directors are Maire Ni Thuathail, EoTeilifis and David Hickey, chief executive of the Connacht Tribune...
Ó Cuív vs Ring
...de la Mayo Advertiser:
A Government minister has slammed claims by Fine Gael TD Michael Ring that the “Government are raiding the fund for struggling farmers to pay for Irish language bureaucracy”.
A Government minister has slammed claims by Fine Gael TD Michael Ring that the “Government are raiding the fund for struggling farmers to pay for Irish language bureaucracy”.
Deputy Ring made his claims earlier this week when he accused the Government of “raiding badly needed support funds for farmers who have been hit by the flooding crisis and falling farm incomes by taking €1 million from the Rural and Social Scheme to meet Irish language obligations”.
However, Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Eamon Ó Cuív has said that allegations made by Dep Ring are total nonsense.
“This is absolute rubbish and worse, it is deliberately disingenuous,” said Minister Ó Cuív...
Friday, 27 November 2009
Gaelscoileanna "Mollycoddled"
..de Glór Traidisiúnta Aontachtach:
“At a time when in the controlled sector Ballee Primary School in Ballymena is facing closure, it is astounding to discover that the NEELB, which wielded the axe so mercilessly against Ballee, is considering an application for a grant-aided Irish-medium primary school in Ballymena. The proposal before the Board is to have the Irish language school opening in September 2010, just after Ballee closes.
“The promotion by the Sinn Fein Minister of Irish schools and the preferential funding directing towards them, at a time when schools like Ballee are being targeted for closure, displays political bias, which those who boasted that in Stormont they could veto the republican agenda are powerless to stop. Shutting a state controlled school in Ballymena but funding an unwarranted Irish school in the town is Ruane’s destructive agenda in action.
“For what it’s worth I have written to the Department of Education vigorously objecting to both the Ballee closure and this proposal for a state funded Irish language school in Ballymena. I will not remain silent and watch state schools be destroyed but Irish language schools promoted and mollycoddled into existence...."
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Skrivu Osian Jones!
…de la BBC:
A member of the Welsh Language Society who refused to pay a fine for painting slogans on shops has been jailed for 28 days by Caernarfon magistrates.
Osian Jones had been ordered to pay more than £1,100 after he painted graffiti on Boots and Superdrug stores in Caernarfon, Bangor and Llangefni.
The chairman of the bench gave Jones, from Dyffryn Nantlle, a chance to pay the fine, but he refused.
About 30 supporters carrying placards accompanied Jones to court.
The chairman of the magistrates, Gareth Haulfryn Williams, said: "We understand your situation, but I will ask you once again if you would consider paying the fine?"
Osian Jones replied: "I am not willing to pay a single penny.
"The situation of the Welsh language in Wales is as vulnerable now as it was 10 years ago when we got devolution."
* CYFEIRIAD/ADRESO:
..Osian Jones
..Rhif / No. DX8265
..HM Prison Altcourse,
..Fazakerley,
..Lerpwl, L97 LH
..Lloegr (UK)
A member of the Welsh Language Society who refused to pay a fine for painting slogans on shops has been jailed for 28 days by Caernarfon magistrates.
Osian Jones had been ordered to pay more than £1,100 after he painted graffiti on Boots and Superdrug stores in Caernarfon, Bangor and Llangefni.
The chairman of the bench gave Jones, from Dyffryn Nantlle, a chance to pay the fine, but he refused.
About 30 supporters carrying placards accompanied Jones to court.
The chairman of the magistrates, Gareth Haulfryn Williams, said: "We understand your situation, but I will ask you once again if you would consider paying the fine?"
Osian Jones replied: "I am not willing to pay a single penny.
"The situation of the Welsh language in Wales is as vulnerable now as it was 10 years ago when we got devolution."
* CYFEIRIAD/ADRESO:
..Osian Jones
..Rhif / No. DX8265
..HM Prison Altcourse,
..Fazakerley,
..Lerpwl, L97 LH
..Lloegr (UK)
Turnamh Shéamuis Mhic Alasdair
“Shut up, Harbinson. You made Barry McElduff sound intelligent on the radio.”
“Leader that child at Headquarters wrote the press release.”
“One council by-election and you think you’re Boris Johnson. I’m a QC you know. Boris had to apologise to the scousers. You groveled to the sqeaky Shinner of your own accord.”
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Adam Price
…de la Western Mail:
The people of Wales should throw off their collective inferiority complex caused by centuries of English colonialism and take charge of their nation’s destiny, Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price argued last night.
In a passionate lecture called Wales, The First and Final Colony delivered to the Institute of Welsh Politics at Aberystwyth University, Mr Price said the deepest legacy left by English imperialism on Wales was psychological.
Tracing the history of Wales from the Anglo-Norman conquest, the Carmarthen East & Dinefwr MP said: “The Norman conquest was no mere military affair. Territorial annexation by force was simply the prelude to the entire panoply of measures in colonialism’s armoury….
…..Mr Price went on to refer to the attack on the Welsh language as “probably... the longest State-sanctioned policy of attempted linguistic genocide in history”.
The people of Wales should throw off their collective inferiority complex caused by centuries of English colonialism and take charge of their nation’s destiny, Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price argued last night.
In a passionate lecture called Wales, The First and Final Colony delivered to the Institute of Welsh Politics at Aberystwyth University, Mr Price said the deepest legacy left by English imperialism on Wales was psychological.
Tracing the history of Wales from the Anglo-Norman conquest, the Carmarthen East & Dinefwr MP said: “The Norman conquest was no mere military affair. Territorial annexation by force was simply the prelude to the entire panoply of measures in colonialism’s armoury….
…..Mr Price went on to refer to the attack on the Welsh language as “probably... the longest State-sanctioned policy of attempted linguistic genocide in history”.
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.
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.
Eric Powell
…de la South Wales Echo:
Eric Powell is proof that you are never too old to learn.
At the age of 90, the retired Llanedeyrn Junior School headteacher has gone back to the classroom and is currently in his fourth year of a Welsh language course.
Inspired to learn his country’s mother tongue, Eric has been studying the Open College Network course at the Howardian Education Centre, Cardiff, where he recently celebrated his milestone birthday with class mates.
“I’ve been learning Welsh for four years,” said Eric, a father of two and grandfather of one from Rhiwbina, Cardiff.
“I wanted to learn because I felt I would like to endorse my identity as a Welshman"...
Eric Powell is proof that you are never too old to learn.
At the age of 90, the retired Llanedeyrn Junior School headteacher has gone back to the classroom and is currently in his fourth year of a Welsh language course.
Inspired to learn his country’s mother tongue, Eric has been studying the Open College Network course at the Howardian Education Centre, Cardiff, where he recently celebrated his milestone birthday with class mates.
“I’ve been learning Welsh for four years,” said Eric, a father of two and grandfather of one from Rhiwbina, Cardiff.
“I wanted to learn because I felt I would like to endorse my identity as a Welshman"...
Ó Cúiv Defendas Tradukojn
…de Raidió Teilifís Éireann:
The Minister for Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs has defended the obligation to translate official documents into Irish.
The Minister for Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs has defended the obligation to translate official documents into Irish.
Speaking through English in the Dáil, Éamon Ó Cuív stressed that he advocates that such documents be made available on CD or on the internet rather than hard copy.
He added that there are constitutional obligations to Irish as the first official language.
Fine Gael's Michael Ring said €1.8 million was spent on translation by State and local authorities last year, and €6 million was spent over the last six years….
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