Irish Language Education Advocacy

The Irish Outreach Center is hosting our very first all female event!

Our inaugural St. Brigid's Day "Meet and Greet" will feature inspiring stories and encouragement for our community's creative talents and achievements. We have an exciting program lined up which will feature Marcella Smyth (Consul General of Ireland Los Angeles), Professor Julie Anne Stevens, Playwright Amy Day with music provided by Alicia Previn.

If you have a service that you offer or are a woman operated business please let us know as we would like to promote you at the event.

Email us the details to [email protected] - Subject Line :Business Woman

This is a free and informal event.

Limited space, so please RSVP as soon as possible to help us with planning - thank you!

Link: https://women_with_wisdom.eventbrite.com

Celebrate St. Brigid's Day at the Irish American Heritage Center on Wednesday, 2/1. The Consulate General of Ireland, Chicago leads the celebration with musicians Kate Grennan Music, Pauline Conneely, Irish Music School of Chicago, Liz Carroll, Kate Grennan Music, Irish Music School of Chicago and poet Rachel Galvin. The program is free but registration is encouraged. bit.ly/3HAibIF

Hmm.... An bhfaca tú an nuacht?
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The Council of Europe has told the UK to pass laws to protect the Irish language The issue has been at the centre of the dispute at Stormont.

The world's largest, among the world's Greatest lakes,
The 2nd longest Dog Sled Race in the Unites States,
The people who may be reading this while wearing Hockey skates,
The Minnesota Gaeltacht invites Duluth to study: Gaeilge awaits!

http://braw.media/help-map-the-irish-language-around-the-world/

Help map the Irish language around the World! Please add a map marker if you would like to learn, speak, teach or help promote the Irish language!

"Gateway to electronic resources for the Irish language, or,
Tairseach acmhainní leictreonacha teanga don Ghaeilge"

Comhrá Le Chéile recommends the following website, created by Ireland's Department of Arts, Heritage, & the Gaeltacht, Dublin City University, "and their partners."

Click the link provided in this post to find a webpage with several Gaeilge-related links of interest.

The page, created by Fiontar agus Scoil na Gaeilge, Dublin City University, features a number of links to databases, on topics such as:

• Irish folklore, including transcription/digitalization projects
(National Folklore Collection of Ireland; the Meitheal, DCU;
National Folklore Foundation)

• The Placenames Database of Ireland
(logainm.ie; The Placenames Branch of the Irish Dept. of Arts,
Heritage, & the Gaeltacht; Dublin City University)

• Irish Surnames
(Irish Folklore Commission)

• The National Database of Irish-Language Biographies
(Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU; Cló Iar-Chonnacht)

If all that sounds a bit dusty or passé for your liking, then you're sure find the link to the Gaois database of use, and of relevance, to life on the razor's edge:

"Gaois.ie is a platform for publishing language and terminology resources developed by Fiontar agus Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU. These include a terminology database and a parallel corpus."

Gaois.ie includes:
• Digitized 21st-century Irish-language (only) publications
• English-Irish translations of legal terminology
• Side-by-side Irish- and English-language versions of contemporary legislation, of the Republic, & of the European Union
• Katie Ní Loingsigh's (Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, Dublin City University) doctoral research: The "Ó Laoghaire Idiom Collection"
• Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge (Dublin City University) research, newsletters, blog posts, & publications

http://www.focal.ie/ga/

P.S. Near the top of the Focal.ie webpage (linked above), one may find a simple toggle-button to click, allowing one to chose whether to view the webpage in Irish, or in English (or even, perhaps, to switch back and forth between Gaeilge & English, as needed, depending on the reader's language proficiency).

www.focal.ie

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European Commission Interpreter Barry's favorite Irish word: Uachtáran ("President")
Find out why!
Really, it's worth it ⤵
[Presented in English, includes a bit of Irish speaking (bonus: a smithereen of well-pronounced French!), quite a bit of interesting information, and no shortage of charm, in a very brief, comfortably-paced video]

My favourite word, Barry, Ireland «My favourite word» is a video-project to promote the 24 Official languages of the EU. The videos were made during the European Institutions' traineeship win...

Move through the headline to find a succinct demonstration of everything that fundamentally matters.
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/northern-ireland-news/irish-minister-s-tribute-to-uk-diplomat-murdered-by-ira-1-7494153?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Galway To Be An Irish Speaking City In response to the Irish Language Commission's report stating that Galway should be made an Irish speaking city, RTÉ News speaks to some of Galway's citizens to get their opinions of the plans.

The British Association for Irish Studies is holding a symposium on "Irish Revolutions," with Irish, British, and American speakers at the University of Liverpool, July 1-3, 2016. Registration opens in January.

BAIS (@BAIrishStudies) posted a photo on Twitter Get the whole picture - and other photos from BAIS

Dublin City Council commissioning a bi-lingual play for a sensitively written, historical recount of the events of 1916. This upcoming spring, a historical fiction (but factually accurate) piece is to be viewed by an audience of children with varying levels of understanding the Irish and English languages and varying levels of familiarity & education about the significance of 1916 as part of the national commemoration of the Easter Rising. The theatre piece is to be part of the larger "Decade of Commemoration," a government-sponsored series of events commemorating and providing education about the turbulent, resonant, and still-relevant period of Irish history between the years 1912-1922.

We must remember history, and remember it carefully so that children may be provided with a true education, rather than indoctrination, which allows future generations to learn from the past. The greatest disservice we could do to the youth of Ireland is reset the sociopoliticaleconomic environment with emotionally charged political leanings and philosophical stances, recreating the tension which we already know fosters the outbreak of civil unrest, societal instability, discriminatory sectarianism, cultural segregation, hate crimes, and ultimately, tribal warfare.

Violent tribalism is domestic warfare which brings danger to one's doorstep, and turns teenagers and youth in their 20s- all of whom are still children; I insist this be understood- into armies which slaughter and are slaughtered. The horrors of war, from the scale of gangland clashes, compromised basic services & personal safety, destruction of homes & civilian casualties, to Scorched Earth, should not be experienced by anyone.

Though it sounds obvious, such horrors are absolutely unacceptable so long as children are present in one's nation- yet it is often children themselves pushed to witness, feel, be a part of, and even become, the horrors of war themselves.

Between the years 1912 and 1922, the human species literally lost an entire generation of youth on the cusp of adulthood. This occurred worldwide, and the decades since then up to the present, and even our near future, reflect that our species has not yet recovered from such a loss. We must demonstrate that we value human life, our future, and the well-being of our children in ways that spare young people from the ramifications of humanity's greatest mistakes to the extent which we can.

Peace.

Dublin City Council (@DubCityCouncil) posted a photo on Twitter Get the whole picture - and other photos from Dublin City Council