Conradh na Gaeilge celebrates 125th years

Conradh na Gaeilge was founded in Dublin back in 1893, with Douglas Hyde as its first president. The group aims to promote Irish culture and is credited with the revival of the Irish language. President Michael D. Higgins has congratulated the Conradh na Gaeilge on the milestone and thanked them for their efforts to promote the language...

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Eisteddfod in Caerdydd : 3 to 11 August

The annual festival celebrates the best of Wales, always taking place on the first week of August, and is regarded as the "pinnacle of the Welsh cultural calendar". It is held in a different location every year, and generally welcomes more than 150,000 visitors over the course of the event. It hosts a number of music, dance, visual arts...

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Plaid Cymru: Lack of Welsh language provision means patients in Wales are getting a ‘second class service’

The lack of Welsh language provision for GP patients in Wales means that people are getting a second class service, Plaid Cymru have said. Plaid Cymru AMs will today present an amendment to the Welsh Conservatives debate on health and social care, calling for any future health and social care workforce plans to include robust targets for providing a bilingual workforce. The amendment will also call for details on how existing...

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Glór na Móna ask for an Irish Language Act

Irish-language and cultural group based in Upper Springfield, west Belfast. Glór na Móna and An Dream Dearg organised a performance asking for an Irish Language Act under the slogan 'Cearta, cothromas agus cóir' meaning Right, Respect and Recognition. Act Anois (Act now) is a popular protest in Northern Ireland demanding legal rights to...

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An Dream Dearg welcome British PM in Béal Feirste asking for an Irish Language Act

An Dream Dearg is giving the British PM a welcome to Béal Feirste / Belfast, Northern Ireland. No easy ride here! Promises at St Andrews 2006 need honoured. An Dream Dearg ask for an Irish Language Act as the agreement recognized.  ...

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Conradh na Gaeilge calls for support for Fermanagh’s Bunscoil an Traonaigh in light of report

Conradh na Gaeilge calls for urgent support and provision for Fermanagh’s Irish-medium primary school Bunscoil an Traonaigh in light of report from The Detail and Meon Eile. Two-and-a-half years after the green light was given to move the school from its temporary accommodation on the outskirts of Lisnaskea – it is still in limbo, with ...

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OED takes a skeet at the rich language of Mann

No fewer than 22 Manx words and phrases have been added to the latest update of the Oxford English Dictionary. So for the first time, it includes hop tu naa (*, of uncertain origin) defined as ’the night of 31 October as celebrated on the Isle of Man, often marked by children singing songs door-to-door and the display of lanterns carved out of turnips’. Also featured is traa dy liooar (phr, a borrowing from Manx), meaning...

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250 people support Breton language schools in Kemper

In Kemper 250 people concentrated yesterday to support the education in Breton language and the students of Bak e Brezhoneg. Among those present was a delegation from the party Democratic Union of Brittany. Youenn Chapalain, from Diwan net, denounced the inaction of the French State on the Breton language schools "We benefit from the support...

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Breton language schools Diwan celebrate 40 years in Karaez

About 250 people rallied yesterday in Karaez where they celebrated the forty-year network of private schools in Diwan Breton, with their president. They also supported the fifteen students who presented part of the entrance examinations to the baccalaureate in Breton Finally, twelve of them have been approved....

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Respect Welsh language rally in Merthyr Tuidful at Trago Mills

The demonstration was organised by Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg and YesCymru on Saturday July 7th 11am at Trago Mills, Merthyr Tudful over bigoted anti-Welsh comments made by owner Bruce Robertson.Welsh NGO Cymdeithas Yr Iaith Gymraeg commented that: "Trago Mills's behaviour is further evidence that strong legislation is needed to ensure...

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Breton Students: our language does not hurt anyone but a threatened language

"We were told that Breton put French at risk. But our language does not hurt anyone. It's not a threat, it's a threatened language." Breton students who completed their bac exam in Breton held a press conference yesterday with Deputy Paul Molac. Brittany's Region Vice-President Lena Louarn slamed Roazhon / Rennes Rectorat for its 'incomprehensible'...

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French state punish students with an order not to correct Bac exams written in Breton

Rennes Rectorat state education services released an order based in linguistic racism, that it is two centuries out of date,  the order is not to correct Bac exams written in Breton. It is a political decision not to correct exams completed in the own language of Brittany. A Demonstration has been called for Saturday July 7th 12.00...

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New English-Irish Dictionary App

Léann Teanga: An Reiviú is published as part of the MA course in Language Studies with Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, University of Ireland, Galway.  The journal deals with the following various areas of language: translation, sociolinguistics, linguistics, language teaching, language planning and communication.  This...

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