... in December 2013 in dramatic testimony before the Irish Parliament's Joint Committee on Public Oversight and Petitions. During ... by the failure of the current government to support the Irish tongue: For those who believe in language rights for Gaeltacht ...
Emmett McIntyre - Apr 13 2016 - 5:26pm - 0 comments
... News from the Gaelic League – Calls For Support of the Irish Government for the Irish Language and Gaeltacht Five years in to the “20 Year Strategy for ...
Emmett McIntyre - Dec 28 2015 - 6:00pm - 0 comments
... Emmett McIntyre's blog The fate of the Irish language is, at this time, in the hands of a Government that is failing ... category, particularly when it comes to the health of the Irish language. The problem is that the present Irish government has the ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jul 4 2015 - 11:42am - 0 comments
... The Ulster Star reports, under the headline "Irish Language School Gets The Go Ahead", that a new Irish Medium school is to be constructed in the village of Crumlin in County ...
Emmett McIntyre - Dec 30 2013 - 2:27am - 0 comments
Find Irish societies around the world. Ireland/Eire Culture ... Australia The Australian Irish Heritage Association www.irishheritage.net Mount Isa Irish Club www.theirishclub.com.au Irish Australian Support ...
Emmett McIntyre - Dec 10 2020 - 7:30pm
Emmett McIntyre's blog Irish Gaelic is a language that is “threatened” according to most ... seem to support that conclusion at first glance. In 2016 the Irish Government’s Central Statistics Office estimated that 1,761,420 ... the status of the world’s languages, breaks down the Irish speakers into two groups. There are the native speakers whose first ...
Emmett McIntyre - May 27 2019 - 4:21pm
... to be in the vicinity of 50 million, comprised primarily of Irish, Scottish and Welsh in that order and inclusive of 5 million Americans who claim Scots-Irish ancestry. Manx, Cornish and Breton identity is more difficult to ...
Emmett McIntyre - Mar 20 2014 - 5:51pm - 0 comments
Emmett McIntyre's blog Irish Gaelic is a language that is “threatened” according to most ... the status of the world’s languages, breaks down the Irish speakers into two groups. There are the native speakers whose first language is Irish (141,000) and those speakers who learn the language in school ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jun 1 2019 - 6:37pm
... “snapshot” of the past, present and future of the Irish Language is provided to us by Conradh na Gaeilge and additional ... the main voluntary community organisation that promotes the Irish language in Ireland and abroad. The League’s primary objective is the ...
Emmett McIntyre - Aug 14 2017 - 2:08pm
... failure of the government to honor its responsibility to the Irish language. In a recent address to a group of language activists in ... Ireland. “It is clear that the demand exists for more Irish language secondary schools to give these children the opportunity to ...
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