... 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 Antrim. Crumlin has grown into a center of the Irish ...
Emmett McIntyre - Dec 30 2013 - 2:27am - 0 comments
... like carpet. A perfect Brittany night in autumn, full of the magic and mystery that filled the air of his Celtic homeland. ‘Brittany’ he thought ...
Dominique Corolleur - Nov 13 2013 - 10:46pm - 0 comments
Find Irish societies around the world. Ireland/Eire Culture ... Australia The Australian Irish Heritage Association www.irishheritage.net Mount Isa Irish ... www.christchurchirishsociety.co.nz United States of America National Organisations : (1) North American Feis ...
Emmett McIntyre - Dec 10 2020 - 7:30pm
... word glen is of Gaelic origin describing a valley (gleann in Irish and Scottish Gaelic and glion in Manx). As can often be the case in this ... popularity, however, is in danger of taking away some of the magic from the Fairy Pools. Local residents and visitors alike have voiced ...
Douglas MacQueen - Nov 4 2017 - 1:45pm
... blog News from the Celtic League: “The Irish government seemed relieved when the ‘definitive’ 2002 report was ... evidence was lost!” The Irish government hoped the mystery of the crash of Aer Lingus Flight 712 with the loss of all 61 people on ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Apr 13 2016 - 8:52pm - 0 comments
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 Irishmen over the age of 3 could speak Gaelic, statistically a scant change from the 2011. ...
Emmett McIntyre - May 27 2019 - 4:21pm
... the murder of his children’s nanny in an unsolved mystery. The whereabouts of Richard John Bingham, the seventh Earl of ... Bingham, (16 April 1800 – 10 November 1888), was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and served as a British Army officer. He was hated by the ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Feb 5 2016 - 12:18pm - 0 comments
Estimates vary on the number of American’s claiming descent from immigrants to North America from the ... 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 web page which specializes in monitoring the status of the world’s languages, breaks down the Irish speakers into two groups. There are the native speakers whose first ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jun 1 2019 - 6:37pm
Emmett McIntyre's blog For those of us who are passionate about the preservation, protection and promotion of ... “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