You’re very welcome to the December edition of Gaelchultúr’s newsletter. We hope you enjoy it!
Gaelchultúr has designed a Christmas card which you can print out and send to your friends.
Gaelchultúr is pleased to announce that we’ve made some changes to our e-learning website, ranganna.com, and that those registering for certain courses now have a choice between a three-month, a six-month or 12-month subscription.
Despite all the cut-backs in education, many people are still interested in pursuing a career in teaching. The Postgraduate Diploma in Education is being offered again by various colleges in early 2011 and they are anticipating a high level of demand.
Would you like to improve your Irish in the year ahead? You’ll have no excuse for not doing so because Gaelchultúr is offering classes throughout the country this spring!
As Irish is an official language of the European Union, the European institutions will be recruiting lawyer-linguists and legal translators in the years ahead who have an excellent level of competency in Irish. King’s Inns is offering two new diploma courses which aim to prepare the participants for the entrance exams that will take place in the future when the above-mentioned vacancies are being filled.
At an event held at Foras na Gaeilge in Dublin in early November, the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Pat Carey, TD, launched a new multimedia course for adult learners of Irish, Gaeilge gan Stró! – Lower Intermediate Level. This course, which consists of a book and two CDs, was published by Gaelchultúr.
Unflinchingly honest and fiercely eloquent; Cré na Cille is a dark comedy on the obsessive hatred between two sisters. This film, which is an adaptation of the celebrated novel by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, is now available on DVD. It was produced by Conamara-based company Rosg and was shown on TG4 several years ago when the centenary of Ó Cadhain’s birth was being marked.
A new website has been launched by Colmcille, the organisation charged with promoting the use of the Irish language and Scottish Gaelic in Ireland and Scotland, and fostering stronger links between speakers in the two countries.
€1,000 worth of Irish language classes and language resources to be won.
Congratulations to the winners of the October competition!
A list of important dates relating to events being run by Gaelchultúr and by other organisations.
The website of the British Library contains nearly 300 recordings of speakers of English which were made throughout Britain and in Northern Ireland from the Fifties onwards.
WinGléacht is an electronic version of Ó Dónaill’s Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla and is one of the most important resources for anyone who writes regularly in Irish.
It’s sometimes difficult to think of Christmas presents, and harder still to find the time to buy them. Here are some Christmas present suggestions for those, be they young or old, with an interest in Irish, and every single one can be purchased online. So stay at home, relax and wait for the postman!
Copyright © 2021 Gaelchultúr Teoranta
Gaelchultúr Teoranta, 11 Clare Street, Dublin 2, Ireland, D02 TD34
Phone numbers: (01) 484 5220
Send us an email
