The Irish language has been used during an address at the UK House of Commons for the first time in more than 100 years.
Liz Saville-Roberts, a member of the Welsh party Plaid Cymru, spoke as Gaeilge as she called on Northern Ireland Secretary of State Karen Bradley to implement an Irish Language Act on October 24th.
She urged Bradley to introduce the act if the Northern Ireland
executive is not restored within six months, following...
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Stumdi organized an employment forum in Breton language (Forom an implic e brezhoneg) on Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 at the Le Family cult... -
We have available each of the Celtic flags in 60 x 90 size as well as other sizes. Please write to: nsestat@gmail.com Ireland/Eire ... -
45 schools in Galway are to benefit from almost 1.5 million euro in funding under the Irish Language Assistants Scheme. The new funding com...
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The first female MSP to make a plenary address in the Scottish Parliament chamber in Gaelic has warned the language’s future will only ... -
Children are getting their first taste of the Manx language with a new book. ’ A Manx Alphabet’ is designed to engage young children look... -
Students and An Dream Dearg movement protested outside Queens University in Béal Feirste / Belfast demanding respect and equal... -
Last year, they were 15. This year, they are 14 candidates for the baccalaureate of Diwan high school in Carhaix, Finistere, to have wr... -
A report into Irish language pre-school education in Northern Ireland has been published almost three years after it was completed. The re...
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The first ever television chat show in the Cornish language has been launched. Two pilot episodes of 'Jaqi ha Jerry' have been made... -
The Council of Gorsedh Kernow has announced the winners of their annual Adults Awards after careful adjudication of this year’s impressi...
2018/10/30
Mae'r cylchgrawn digidol parallel.cymru yn dathlu 100,000 o ymweliadau tudalen yn ei flwyddyn gyntaf
Mae’r cylchgrawn digidol parallel.cymru yn dathlu blwyddyn gyntaf lwyddiannus a 100,000 o ymweliadau tudalen.
Dywed sylfaenydd a rheolwr y prosiect, Neil Rowlands: “Pwrpas parallel.cymru yw gwneud yr iaith a’r diwylliant Cymraeg yn fwy cyraeddadwy. Gwneir hyn drwy gyflwyno’r Gymraeg a’r Saesneg ochr wrth ochr, gan ddefnyddio ystod o gyweiriau...
2018/10/29
Record number of people have taken Cornish language exams in 2018
The Cornish Language Board said 77 people sat the exam this year - a rise of 15% on the previous year.
Exams secretary Tony Hak said the spike is partly down to Saunders, whose Cornish language concept album has seen her play live on 6Music.
More than 1,200 people have taken the exams since they began in 1992.
The language is designated "critically endangered" by the United Nations group Unesco and is recognised as a minority...
2018/10/27
Extra funding for Welsh language programmes for children
Welsh language programming will get extra funding to help stimulate
the creation of distinctive Welsh language productions from the
independent sector.
The money from the UK Government aims to halt the decline of UK produced children's content.
It will be used to reverse the growing trend of airing repeats and
facilitate the creation...
2018/10/26
Eilidh Cormack, from Skye, announced as Scottish Gaelic Ambassador of the Year
Eilidh Cormack, Portree, is this
year's recipient of the Scottish Government's Gaelic Ambassador of the
Year award.
A 22-year-old singer from Skye has been named Gaelic Ambassador of the Year, as the Royal National Mod gets under way.
Eilidh Cormack, from Portree, said she was "absolutely delighted".
The
Gaelic cultural festival began...
2018/10/25
New book 'Help! my child speaks Breton'
The L'Encre de Bretagne bookshop invites you to come and meet Katell Leon on the occasion of the release of her new guide for parents of children attending school in a bilingual school:
Help! my child speaks Breton. To help you have a minimum luggage, understand the work of your children or be able to distill, throughout the day, small...
2018/10/23
Am Mòd Nàiseanta Rìoghail Scottish Gaelic Festival ends
Am Mòd Nàiseanta Rìoghail Scottish Gaelic Festival was celebrated in Dunoon from 12 - 20 October 2018. The Royal National Mòd (Scottish Gaelic: Am Mòd Nàiseanta Rìoghail) is the most important of several annual major Mòds. It is the main festival of Scottish Gaelic literature, song, arts and culture and often referred to as...
2018/10/22
77 candidates passed their Cornish Language Board exams this year
Seventy seven candidates passed their Cornish Language Board exams
this year and successful students were presented with their certificates
at a ceremony at Lys Kernow on 15 September.
The new Grand Bard, Liz Carne, congratulated the students and praised the work of our volunteer teachers.
The number of students taking the Kesva exams has risen again, almost
15% up on 2017, and shows the growing interest in learning the
language....
2018/10/21
Cymdeithas AGM in Blaenau Ffestiniog
A new Welsh Government beefed-up department responsible for the
language should be established outside Cardiff as part of a wider move
to devolve hundreds of jobs outside the capital, say campaigners.
At the moment, the Welsh Government has a Welsh language Division at
its Cathays Park headquarters in Cardiff, which does not have the...
2018/10/20
Foras na Gaeilge celebrates Irish language officers in councils in the north
Foras na Gaeilge, the cross-border body with responsibility for the
promotion of the Irish language, celebrated on Tuesday 9 October 2018
the four newly-appointed Irish language officers in three council areas
in the north with part funding from Foras na Gaeilge under the Irish
Language Officers Scheme at an event in Belfast City Hall.
Belfast City Council have appointed their first ever Irish language
officer in...
2018/10/19
Dispak, first webzine for Breton speakers
"Dispak is born of a lack". It is on these words that begins the presentation of the first webzine in Breton language. Created on September 26th, this brand new website is a generalist medium that scans regional and national news, in order to adapt it to a very targeted audience: the Breton ones.
Politics, economy, entertainment, but...
2018/10/18
Heledd Gwyndaf, gets conditional discharge for refusing to pay TV licence
A Welsh-language campaigner
who is calling for broadcasting powers to be devolved to Wales has been given a six-month conditional discharge after she refused to pay her TV
licence fee.
Heledd Gwyndaf, of
Blaenglowon Fach, Talgarreg, is the first member of Cymdeithas yr Iaith
to appear before a court as part of the society’s campaign...
2018/10/16
Imram, an Irish-language festival is coming to Dublin/BÁC next week
Bob Dylan as Gaeilge – that’s just a small taste of what will be on offer at an Irish language literature festival next week. IMRAM, the Irish language literature festival, is taking place in
multiple venues around Baile Átha Cliath/Dublin from Monday until next Saturday.
With a diverse and culturally filled programme of events...
2018/10/15
Leading councillor apologises after Welsh language official rebuke
It follows a damning report which criticised Wrexham Council for failing to correct translation errors in council tax bills, despite them being brought to its attention by a resident in 2014.
The Public Services Ombudsman for Wales ordered the council to correct
the errors in 2017 and told it to pay £50 in compensation to the man,
known only as Mr D.
However, when he received his council tax bill in March, there were...
2018/10/14
Campaign against the monolingual propaganda of the Breton government
'Breizh Go' is a propaganda campaing by the Brittany's government to promote the public transports net. It has been boycotted by the Breton language government Aita! to denounce that 'Breizh Go' deliberately ignores the Breton language and it is monolingual, in French, in spite of the promises of the Breton government. A recent survey...
2018/10/13
Ti ar Vro, Breton language net, meet to grow
The leaders of eight country agreements (*) met on Tuesday October 9th at the premises of Ti ar Vro Landerne-Daoulaz, Theo-Le Borgne center. The aim was to evaluate the situation of each "Ti ar vro" (coordinator of actions in favor of Breton) on its territory and to consider strengthening their network in the pursuit of their fundamental...
2018/10/11
Cymdeithas campaigner fined for refusing to pay TV licence fee
A Welsh-language campaigner
who is calling for broadcasting powers to be devolved to Wales has been
ordered to pay £170 after she refused to pay her TV licence fee.
Heledd Gwyndaf, of
Blaenglowon Fach, Talgarreg, is the first member of Cymdeithas yr Iaith
to appear before a court as part of the society’s campaign that it says
would...
2018/10/10
Belfast City Council appoints Irish language officer
Belfast City Council yesterday appointed the first dedicated Irish language officer in its history.
The announcement was made at Belfast City Hall on Tuesday.
Belfast becomes the fourth council in Northern Ireland to appoint an Irish language officer.
A second officer with responsibility for Ulster-Scots, sign language and other languages has also been appointed.
The officers are expected to develop and promote use of their...
2018/10/08
Gaelic license plates in Nova Scotia
Did you know that Gaelic is spoken outside of Scotland? In fact, it
was very nearly Canada's third official language, and is still spoken in
the province of Nova Scotia on Canada's east coast*. Now, Nova Scotians
can opt to have their license plates in Gaelic. Every little bit of
language representation matters.
It may also be of interest to some that on Cape Breton, an island off
of Nova Scotia (though still...
2018/10/07
Judgement over Fañch name in French court to begin tomorrow
A French court banned a couple from using Breton letter in baby's name in 2017. Tomorrow a new judgement begins over the case. A French court in 2017 banned a couple from giving their baby a name containing a tilde, ruling that the "n with a squiggle over it" was incompatible with French law.The couple from Brittany wanted to call their...
2018/10/05
Irish language groups bring pre-budget campaign to Baile Átha Cliath with ‘Clinic na Gaeilge’
Almost
90 community, language and Gaeltacht organisations have come together
to support a pre-budget call for funding of a plan that would help
create almost 1,200 new jobs in some of the most disadvantaged parts of
the country.
Irish language...
2018/10/04
KLT courses of Breton language at full
Kerne, Leon, Treger (KLT) made his comeback. In
the program 63 hours of introduction to Breton in
public schools, a 35-hour training per week for people seeking
retraining or job search, as well as evening classes and day, which will take place in five municipalities of the country of Montroulez (Morlaix in French), for a total...
2018/10/03
Parole Board launches its Welsh Language Scheme 2018-2020
The Parole Board has launched its Welsh Language Scheme 2018-2020, which has been approved by the Welsh Language Commissioner.
The act requires public bodies to produce a language scheme to
explain which services they will provide in Welsh, how they will do so
and when.
The Parole Board has adopted the principle that in the conduct of
public business and the administration of justice in Wales, it will
treat the English and...
2018/10/01
New Learners Cornish Dictionary and Cornish language meeting
'A learners dictionary in the Standard Written Form' by Steve Harris is in its second edition. It is distributed by Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek among others. The language fellowship also organizes the upcoming Fun Palace in Pool focusing on trees on October 6th.
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