Irish language

Cape Breton fiddlers Colin Grant and Andrea Beaton 10-day festival jam-packed with music By Margo Pfeiff In the midst of Nova Scotia ’s fiery fall foliage season, legions of fiddles, harps, accordions, bagpipes and step-dancing tunes ignite Cape Breton Island’s rugged countryside during the annual Celtic Colours International Festival . In its 15th year, the 10-day event, October 7 to 15, is a showcase of all things Gaelic, the cultural heritage introduced hundreds of years ago by...Read Full Story

Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle is the first feature film in Scottish Gaelic. It is a film from the Scottish Gaelic community starring local Gaelic-speaking actors from the Highlands and Isles and was filmed entirely on the Isle of Skye (An t-Eilean Sgitheanach) off the West Coast of Scotland. Seachd is not a Hollywood film. The film was shot across just 25 days on a tiny budget, but it is a film with a big heart and it represents the lives of people living in a part of the world that has...Read Full Story

Irish Sayings, Irish Blessing: a chance to hear Irish natives speak over 400 Irish words and phrases in the main dialects of the Irish language (“Irish Gaelic”). Our aim is to give you a first taster of how things are said in the Irish language. From there, we hope that your interest in the language will culminate in you learning the language!Read Full Story

Irish Sayings, Irish Blessing: a chance to hear Irish natives speak over 400 Irish words and phrases in the main dialects of the Irish language (“Irish Gaelic”). Our aim is to give you a first taster of how things are said in the Irish language. From there, we hope that your interest in the language will culminate in you learning the language!Read Full Story

Posted below for your information are some highlights of the programme for the 3rd Symposium of the AHRC Ireland-Wales Research Network, to be held at Aberystwyth University on 17-18 April 2009. The theme of the meeting is ‘Cultural Institutions and Creativity in Ireland and Wales’. Please contact the organizers Paul O’Leary, Claire Connolly and Katie Gramich at irelandwales[at]aber[dot]ac[dot]uk 3rd Symposium of the AHRC Ireland-Wales Network: Cultural Institutions and Creativity in Ireland...Read Full Story