Ranganna, tionscnaimh & ceardlanna ceoil trí Ghaeilge
Márta 27, 2013
Cuireann ‘An Mobile Music School’ cláir ceoil, ranganna dírithe ar na huirlisí agus ceardlanna ar fáil i scoileanna. Tá foireann iontach proifisiúnta againn. Tá gach duine againn cáilithe agus ina theannta sin, tá taithí iontach againn. Bheadh an fhoireann sásta na ranganna a chur ar fáil trí mhéan na Gaeilge. Is minic a bhíonn an fhoireann i dteagmháil le scoileanna agus go dtí seo, tá suim mhór léirithe ag scoileanna ins na ranganna atá a chur ar fáil againn. Ar an ábhar sin, ba bhreá linn deis a fháil labhairt leat agus ár ndóigh cúpla rang nó ceardlann a chur ar siúl i do scoil.
Faoi láthair, tá dhá tairiscint iontach á chur ar fáil againn. Táimid ag súil le ‘Lá na nDrumaí’ a chur ar siúl i scoileanna. Cosnaíonn na laethanta seo €2 an dalta ar an mbunús go bhfuil idir 27 – 32 dalta i ngach rang. Ina theannta sin, is féidir linn cláir seachtainiúil a chur le chéile ó €1 an dalta.
Má tá spéis agat na ceardlanna nó na ranganna iontacha seo a chur ar siúl, ná bíodh drogall ar bith ort dul i dteagmháil linn. Bheadh muid an-sásta glacadh le ceisteanna agus tá an fhoireann ag súil go mór le cloisteáil uait.
shay@mobilemusicschool.ie
087-2995666
Ticéid do Siansa Gael Linn le buachan
Márta 26, 2013
Beidh Craobhchomórtas Siansa Gael Linn ar siúl sa Cheoláras Náisiúnta i mBaile Átha Cliath ar an Domhnach, 14 Aibreán 2013 agus an tseachtain seo, beidh deis iontach ag beirt dhá thicéad an duine a bhuachan do Siansa Gael Linn na bliana seo.
Is comórtas é Siansa Gael Linn do ghrúpaí traidisiúnta. Tá an comórtas ar an bhfód breis is deich mbliana anois agus déanann an comórtas áirithe seo an-spreagadh agus ardán a thabhairt don chuid is fearr d’ógthallann ceoil agus amhránaíochta traidisiúnta na tíre.
Beidh ocht ngrúpa as iar-bhunscoileanna éagsúla as Co. na Gaillimhe, Co. Dhoire, Baile Átha Cliath, Co. Phort Láirge, Luimneach agus as Sligeach ag glacadh páirte sa chomórtas sa Cheoláras Náisiúnta ar an oíche agus gach bliain bíonn caighdeán den scoth ag na grúpaí a bhíonn i gcoimhlint lena chéile.
Ag moltóireacht ar Siansa na bliana seo beidh an ceoltóir aitheanta as Tír Chonaill, Ciarán Ó Maonaigh a bhíonn ag seinm leis an ngrúpa iomráiteach Fidil, an ceoltóir Breanndán Ó Beaglaoich as Baile na bPoc i gCorca Dhuibhne a bhíonn ag seinm leis na grúpaí Boys of the Lough agus Beginnishan agus beidh an ceoltóir iomráiteach Mary Bergin ón ngrúpa Dordán ina gcuideachta ar an oíche.
Anuraidh ba iad an grúpa Teaspach ó Scoil Ghraiméar Shligigh a bhain amach an chraobh lena gceol bríomhar agus amhráin bhinne agus i mí Eanáir ghlac siad páirt sa Templebar Tradfest sa Ardchathair.
Tá an-áthas ar Gael Linn atá ag ceiliúradh 60 bliain ar an bhfód i mbliana, go mbeidh Uachtarán na hÉireann, Mícheál D. Ó hUiginn mar phríomhaoi ag craobhchomórtas Siansa i mbliana. Craolfar an cheolchoirm beo ar RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta ar an Domhnach, 14 Aibreán ag 7.30 pm agus is í Áine Hensey ón stáisiún sin a bheidh mar láithreoir.
Ceist na seachtaine seo:
Cá mbeidh Craobhchomórtas Siansa Gael Linn ar siúl i mbliana?
• Ceoláras Ollscoil Luimnigh
• Sa Cheoláras Náisiúnta
• Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich
• Áras Ceoldráma Loch Garman
Seol freagraí agus ainm do scoile chuig an seoladh ríomhphoist seo a leanas: duais@comhdhail.ie roimh mheán lae, 03 Aibreán 2013 agus bíodh na focail “Comórtas Gaelport” mar ábhar an ríomhphoist.
Comhghairdeas le Anraí Mac Fhlannchadha as Baile Átha Cliath a bhuaigh an duais san eagrán seo caite.
Tá Comhdháil Náisiúnta na Gaeilge fíorbhuíoch de Gael Linn a bhronn na duaiseanna iontacha seo orainn.
Chun ticéad a chur in áirithe don ócáid, ní gá ach dul i dteagmháil leis an gCeoláras Náisiúnta ag 01:417 00 00 nó www.nch.ie – ná caill oíche den scoth!
Foilsithe ar Gaelport.com
Bruíon na mbuíon ar RónánBeo@3 – spriocdháta ag teannadh linn!
Márta 26, 2013
Mar chuid de ‘Sheachtain na nDaoine Óga’ tá clár RónánBeo@3 ag tabhairt dúshlán ceoltóirí óga na tíre páirt a ghlacadh sa chomórtas Bruíon na mBuíon.
Tá siad ag tabhairt cuireadh do ghrúpaí nó ceoltóirí aonaracha amhrán nuachumtha chomhaimseartha a chumadh agus a sheoladh isteach chucu.
Beidh moltóirí an chomórtais ag treabh fríd na hamhráin uilig a thiocfaidh chugainn anseo le buaiteoir amháin a aimsiú.
Beidh an buaiteoir a fhógairt ar an Aoine an 19ú Aibreán.
’Sé an duais a bhéas ann nó taifeadadh EP (3 traic) i stiúideo Tommy McLaughlin, ball den ghrúpa ceoil ‘The Villagers’ lena chois sin beidh cuireadh a thabhairt don bhuaiteoir seinm ag an Chabaret Craiceáilte.
Rialacha…
- Tá an chomórtas seo dírithe ar dhaltaí meánscoile ar fud na tíre.
- Glacfar le hAmhráin chomhaimseartha nuachumtha le grúpa nó ceoltóirí aonaracha.
- Is féidir níos mó ná hiarratas amháin a sheoladh isteach ach an mhéid sin a chur in iúl i d’iarratas.
- Is é an Aoine an 29ú Márta spriocdháta an chomórtais!
- Seol d’amhrán chuig Rónán Beo RTÉ Raidió Na Gaeltacha, Na Doire Beaga, Leitir Ceanainn, Co Dhún na nGall nó mp3 chuig ronan@rte.ie
- Fógrófar an buaiteoir ar an Aoine an 19ú Aibreán.
- Ní bheidh athbhreithniú a dhéanamh ar chinneadh na moltóirí.
A very Irish revolution taking place in Naas
Márta 26, 2013
There is an Irish revolution of sorts taking place in Naas and the surrounding areas these days. It’s the As Gaeilge Revolution.
Kildare is one of the fastest-growing Irish-speaking counties outside the Gaeltacht to take up the cupla focal and in Naas there has been a huge surge in Irish-speaking community activities and education in recent years.
For example, in the local education system there is now for the first time ever waiting lists for Gaelscoil Nas na Riogh in Piper’s Hill and the Gael Colaiste Chill Dara on the Newbridge Road.
In addition, there is also a host of family activities with Glor na Riogh, the weekly Bricfeasta as Gaeilge met-ups in Alice’s Restaurant, trad sessions and Irish language lessons with Sult na Sollan, to name but a few local organisations that are promoting and using the Irish language and its culture. The Leader caught up with various groups in Naas and Sallins during the recent Seachtain na Gaeilge.
Sallins lady Eithne Ni Fhlathartaith and Alice’s restaurant owner Eileen Meagher were the founding members of Bricfeasta as Gaeilge every Saturday morning for the simple grá of Irish language.
“I starting coming here to Alice’s three years ago now. I heard Eileen the owner speaking Irish to somebody and joined in the conversation and then I met the people from Sult na Sollan and we suggested setting up the Bricfeasta as Gaeilge,” explains Eithne.
“I was born in Dublin in an Irish speaking household and I went to an English-speaking school. My father was from Galway and that is where my love of Irish began. I don’t think a country is whole without its language and I think every person in this country have some bit of Irish and we all should be using it. There is an Irish revolution happening in Naas and Sallins and it is definitely growing. We have up to 20 people here every Saturday morning and we do Irish classes and cater for all abilities. A lot of people are rusty with the language and finding it difficult to find a place in Kildare to use their language and that’s where we come in.”
As the song says it’s true that you can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant! “I’m from Two Mile House and we originally spoke only Irish in my house,“ explained owner and mother of three Eileen.
“I’m opened 21 years and a lady came into the restaurant a few years ago and said ‘I know who you are’. She use to cycle out to Two Mile House to speak Irish with my father because they had the same Spiddal Irish and so when she told me that we started in whispers. Then I met Eithne and Sult na Sollan got involved. My father played the box and piano accordion and we all spoke Irish and danced. We speak Irish during the week too and schoolchildren come into the restaurant to practice their as Gaeilge which is lovely. It’s all age groups and it’s amazing. We have the Gaeltacht here in Naas!”
The Leader also spoke to Dáithí de Faoite of Sult na Sollan. “County Kildare has been recognised as the fastest-growing Irish speaking area in the country,” he explains.
“If you look at the figures from the Central Statistics Office. There is about 42 per cent of people in the area who say they speak Irish. About 20,000 people just in Sallins, Naas, Kill, Johnstown, Prosperous area that speak Irish regularly. So it’s pretty enormous. What we are really trying to do is reach out and build on the network and grow the community. If there is anyone out there who would like to join in our activities just check out our website www.SultnaSollán.ie. We are involved not just in the Irish language but also Irish traditional music and dancing.”
Father of three Dáithí embraced the love of the Irish language after attending the Gaeltacht for several years with his brother and continuing that interest throughout college.
“Although I didn’t study Irish in college I have a great network of friends who speak Irish and are very passionate about. My wife is a Galway native Irish speaker and we are raising our kids through Irish. She works as a teacher in the Gael Colaiste so she actually speaks very little English in her life. It’s amazing really and it’s how all marriages should work!” he jokes.
Dáithí explains that Sult na Sollan runs weekly Irish classes in Sallins, regular trad sessions in Flanagans Mill and they also attend the Saturday morning bricfeasta in Alice’s.
“What is fantastic is that we have every generation here, from grandparents to newborns. It’s a real vibrant community. Once you can order your coffee, say hello to people and make the effort in Irish you are most welcome. And of course some people do speak better Irish with a bit of drink on them too but that would be at our trad sessions!”
A very confident seven-year-old Daragh de Faoite also spoke of his love of Irish to the Leader. “We speak Irish at home and at school. I love coming to Alice’s to get scones and bars. I go to Gael Scoil Nas na Riogh and I love muniteoir Niamh. I going to be an Irish teacher when I grow up and am going to teach in the same school I am in now.”
Naas mother of three and secondary-school teacher Siobhain Grogan is very involved in Gael Scoil Nas na Riogh and Glor na Riogh. She spoke to the Leader before a Seachtain na Gaeilge family trip to K-Bowl.
“I was brought up in Naas. I went to school through English and my husband was brought up in Mayo through English. We are both secondary school teachers in an English-speaking school in Dublin. In recent years we have observed a lot of students switching between different languages and we had huge admiration and envy. So we had a chat and we decided to school our children through Irish and Irish culture. We had our first child eight years ago and we now have two other children, and we always speak Irish at home. Our children have been Irish speakers since birth and can flip between English and Irish. We can see the benefits of our children being bilingual and the cultural associations and it doesn’t matter if we had it growing up or not. We are learning too. There’s a great Irish-speaking community here in Naas and we’re looking to expand on that.”
www.leinsterleader.ie
Scoil Mhuire debates its way to All Ireland win
Márta 26, 2013
After some tough talking as gaeilge, three sixth-year students from Scoil Mhuire in Cork have won the prestigious Gael Linn national debating competition, becoming the first Cork school to scoop the Irish language debating title.
Team captain Aisling Hourihan, Emma Dobson and Zoe Boland opposed the motion that the Irish people have lost their national identity. They interpreted identity as closely associated with culture, language, sport and homegrown Irish heroes with whom the nation identifies.
The team, coached by Samantha Mulcahy with help from teacher Eileen Dineen, argued convincingly, in their native tongue, the Irish still have a very strong national identity. They were presented with the Corn An Phiarsaigh and each girl also won a cash prize.
“The girls are a credit to the school and their families that they are so passionate about Irish language,” a Scoil Mhuire spokesperson said.
“It is a great honour and a credit for the school that they have become the first Cork school to win this competition.
“We are not an all-Irish language school but we do put huge emphasis on oral Irish and we are delighted to get recognition for that.”
The girls made it through to the national final after talking their way through the Munster round of competition opposing the motion ‘tá mórchinntí an rialtais seo ar leas an náisiúin’ —that this Government’s major decisions are benefiting the nation — and defeating Presentation College, The Mardyke, Cork, Pobalscoil Eoin Baiste, Hospital, Co Limerick, and Laurel Hill Secondary School, Limerick.
www.irishexaminer.com
Féile na bPáistí i mBéal Feirste
Márta 26, 2013
Bunaíodh Féile na bPáistí sa bhliain 1998 agus tá fás agus forbairt tar éis teacht ar an bhFéile ó shin.
Bíonn Féile na bPáistí i measc na n-ócáidí éagsúla a eagraíonn Young at Art.
An aidhm atá ag Young at Art ná páistí a spreagadh i dtreo na healaíne agus an deis a thabhairt dóibh eolas a bheith acu ar an ealaín agus labhairt faoi.
Bíonn ceardlanna, imeachtaí agus turais á n-eagrú ag Young at Art.
Bhí Meon Eile i láthair ag ócáid faoi leith le linn Fhéile na bPáistí, Sos agus Scéalta.
Fuair na páistí a bhí i láthair an deis suaimhneas a ghlacadh agus suí síos chun éisteacht le scéalta Gaeilge agus Béarla in áit chiúin chompordach.
Féach an físeán ar www.meoneile.ie
Stiúrthóir Naíonra – Uíbh Fhailí
Márta 26, 2013
Tá Stiúrthóir ag teastáil ó Naíonra i mBiorra, Co. Uibh Fhailí.
Ráta pá: €20 san uair agus 30 uair sa tseachtain.
Tá an Stiúrthóir ag teastáil le haghaidh seisiún maidine agus seisiún tráthnóna.
Is gá go mbeadh líofacht na Gaeilge (labhartha agus scríofa) ag an iarrthóir mar aon le cáilíocht CDBO/FETAC Leibhéal 5 nó 6 ina iomláine.
Moltar go mbeadh na cáilíochtaí seo a leanas ag iarrthóirí chomh maith, nó iad a bheith sásta tabhairt fúthu:
• Dianchúrsa FNT
• Oiliúint gharchabhrach
• Child Protection Training
Is é 29 Márta 2013 an spriocdháta. Eagrófar agallaimh i ndiaidh an dáta sin.
Is féidir glaoch a chur ar Stella ag 085 7112211 nó riomhphost: info@stellathompson.com má tá spéis agat sa phost.
Féile na bPáistí 2013
Márta 26, 2013
Beidh Féile na bPáistí ar siúl i mBéal an Mhuirthead, Co. Mhaigh Eo ón 2-4 Aibreán 2013.
Seo é an ceathrú bliain as a chéile a bhfuil an fhéile ealaíon seo do pháistí ar siúl agus beidh féile na bliana seo á reáchtáil le linn laethanta saoire na cásca chun go mbeidh deis ag páistí freastal ar na himeachtaí éagsúla atá beartaithe.
Beidh na himeachtaí ar siúl in Áras Inis Gluaire i gCo. Mhaigh Eo thar thrí lá ón Máirt 2 – Déardaoin 4 Aibreáin 2013.
Mar chuid de na himeachtaí beidh seó agus ceardlanna do gach aoisghrúpa á reáchtáil. Beidh seó beo de chuid na ndeartháireacha Fanzini- beirt fhear grinn. Anuas air seo beidh ceardlann drumadóireachta leis na Rúach Rhythms & Seó Puipéad faoi stiúir Carmel Balfe. Is gá áit a chur in áirithe do na ceardlanna do pháistí de bharr éileamh.
Tuilleadh eolais:
Áras Inis Gluaire
Béal an Mhuirthead
Co. Mhaigheo
t.mccafferty@arasinisgluaire.ie / 09781079
www.arasinisgluaire.ie
Teastas Nua Surfála seolta ag Scoil Surfála Freedom
Márta 26, 2013
Tá tús curtha ag Scoil Surfála Freedom i gcomhar le Billabong le teastas surfála deireadh seachtaine trí Ghaeilge.
Tá Scoil Surfála Freedom ar an bhfód le 30 bliain anois agus í lonnaithe sa Trá Mhór, Co. Phort Láirge gar do Ghaeltacht na Rinne. Tá an-éileamh ar na ranganna surfála trí Ghaeilge a chuirtear ar fáil ann mar aon le campaí samhraidh d’aoisghrúpaí éagsúla.
Tá clár eisceachtúil curtha le chéile agus an scoil I gcomhar leis an mbranda aitheanta, Billabong, a chuirfidh ar chumas daoine cáilíocht a bhaint amach tar éis dóibh scileanna nua a fhoghlaim.
Dúirt stiúrthóir Scoil Surfála Freedom, Billy Butler: “Chuireamar tús leis an turas seo i 2008 agus táimid ag cur lenár gclár ó shin. Beidh teastais ar fáil ó Chumann Surfála na hÉireann don Chúrsa Teastas Surfála seo trí Ghaeilge do aon duine ar mhaith leo caighdeán aitheanta tosaitheora nó idirmheánach surfála a fháil trí Ghaeilge. Tá lúcháir orainn é a chur ar fáil le tacaíocht ó Fhoras na Gaeilge agus ónár gcomhpháirtí oirirc Billabong.”
Tá eolais maidir leis an teastas ar fáil ar www.freedomsurfschool.com.
Leabhar úr do pháistí foilsithe ag Futa Fata
Márta 26, 2013
Seoladh an leabhar is déanaí ón údar Patricia Forde i dTaibhdhearc na Gaillimhe an tseachtain seo caite.
Is pictiúrleabhar é Lísín – Scoil na bPáistí Deasa ina n-insítear scéal fhoghlaí mara óg ag tosú i scoil ghalánta nua agus í ag iarraidh réiteach leis na páistí ardnósacha ann.
Is í an t-ealaíontóir Francach Joelle Dreidemy a mhaisigh Lísín – Scoil na bPáistí Deasa, a bhfuil ar an gceathrú leabhar foilsithe ag an údar le Futa Fata.
Bhí daltaí ó Ghaelscoil Dara, Scoil Fhursa agus Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh i láthair ag an seoladh sa Taibhdhearc áit a raibh ceol na mara á chasadh ag Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin agus a iníon Róise.
Tá Lísín – Scoil na bPáistí ar fáil anois ar chostas €7.95 ó www.futafata.ie agus ó shiopaí leabhar ar fud na tíre.
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