Getting lucky as Gaeilge
August 2, 2013
If you’re going to try and make Irish appeal to the i-Pod generation, then Micheál Ó Foighil, bainisteoir at Coláiste Lurgan in Indreabhán, Co Galway, seems to have found the very answer.
This is cutting-edge Gaeilge, brilliantly tailored in what Micheál describes as ‘New Age Irish’: typical three-week summer courses running from June to late August but with an emphasis on music, performance and making Irish trendy and applicable to the teenage market.
It’s no surprise, then, that the college in south Connemara has in the last 18 months become something of a home-spun internet sensation on YouTube. This summer, the students’ version of Daft Punk’s dance hit ‘Get Lucky’ — ‘An Ádh Nocht’ in Irish — clocked up an incredible 62,000 hits, registering 10,000 hits alone within just 24 hours of being posted. (Their ‘Cup Song’ has had almost 250,000 views).
In short, it’s ‘Gaeilge Rap’, performed and filmed by Blanchardstown student Ian Mac Gabhann and with the Irish lyrics subtitled at the bottom so viewers can sing along, with the song recorded in the Coláiste’s own state-of-the art studio.
The team in Indreabhán have also launched an Irish language video app.
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Foilsithe ar Gaelport.com 02 Lúnasa 2013
The Irish Examiner
