Pennseythen Gernewek / Cornish Language Weekend 2020

The Pennseythen Gernewek / Cornish Language Weekend 2020 by Kowethas An Yeth Kernewek will take place from3 to 5 April. The Cornish Language Weekend is an event for fluent Cornish speakers and students and is a good opportunity to speak in Cornish for a whole weekend. There will be songs, dances, films and many other things, and there is also a one day course for people who don’t speak any Cornish (yet) – the Flamm Nowydh class (completely new). This Weekend is in St Austell, close to the station. Evening meals are not included with any of the tickets. Venue menus will be sent by the organiser separately so that you can order an evening meal if you want to. It is not happening in a hotel this year but you can find information about venues, local hotels and the programme here.

Conradh na Gaeilge asked candidates to commit to four measures

The Irish language has barely featured in the 2020 campaign and by the time general election hopefuls have had the last word on the headline issues, it is unlikely to have received much consideration outside of Raidió na Gaeltachta and TG4. Conradh na Gaeilge, has taken a more direct approach.

“It is always extremely difficult to break through,” says Julian de Spáinn, general secretary of Conradh na Gaeilge.“That is why we engage in a more direct approach where we engage directly with the candidates themselves.”

Individual candidates as well as political parties were asked to commit to four measures agreed by over 70 Irish language and Gaeltacht groups which, if enacted, they say will go someway towards reversing the decline of Irish.

Commitments

1. The appointment of a senior Government minister with Cabinet responsibility for the Gaeltacht and the Irish language.

2. An investment of € 18 million in an Irish language and Gaeltacht plan to expand the use of Irish

3. A single policy for Irish in the education sphere linking the teaching of Irish throughout all cycles of the education system

4. Support for the strengthening of the Official Languages Bill and a commitment to honour the provision that 20 per cent of candidates recruited to the public sector will be competent in the Irish language.

Aï'ta rally against the summoning of a Breton woman for a language action

Aï’ta activists were present this Sunday morning, in front of the Plouay gendarmerie (French police station) to support a woman summoned after an action against a bus in the Brittany region in October 2018 to defend the Breton language.