Scéal na Gaeilge (The Story of Irish) Episode 1 to air on St Patrick’s Day on TG4
March 13, 2012
As a broadcasting event to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge, ROSG is proud to present their latest groundbreaking series, Scéal na Gaeilge (The story of Irish).
Scéal na Gaeilge is a 2 part documentary series which traces the journey of the Irish language from earliest times to the present day.
Through a mixture of animation, green screen and location filming, this series reveals the history of the Irish language by shining a humourous light on the historical and mythological stories that are associated with it.
Fun, fresh and frisky, Scéal na Gaeilge is presented and written by Alan Titley, directed by Diarmuid Goggins and produced by Ciarán Ó Cofaigh for ROSG.
Often people have little or no understanding of what the Irish language is, where it comes from, or who spoke it. People don’t realise that the Irish language was the language spoken by Cú Chulainn, Saint Patrick, Brian Boru, Macbeth and Daniel O’Connell.
It was the language of Irish society for thousands of years and remained the dominant language up until the time of the Great Famine.
People are unaware that on even the most superficial of investigations into their own familial background, they’re bound to discover that only a few generations ago many of their families communicated through the Irish language.
- Episode 1 @ 20:30 GMT / 15:30 EST on the 17th of March
- Episode 2 @ 20:30 GMT 15:30 EST on the 19th of March
