Seachtain na Gaeilge 2013
December 10, 2012
This year’s Seachtain na Gaeilge will take place from 4-17 March 2013 and promises to be the longest week of the years packed with cultural and Irish language events all over Ireland and around the world.
Seachtain na Gaeilge promotes the use of Irish language and culture both at home and abroad with a two-week festival held in March every year. The festival gives everyone a chance to experiment and have fun with Irish, whether they are fluent speakers or only dipping their toe in the language for the first time.
Seachtain na Gaeilge 2013 festival will have its most international flavour to date. Learners from abroad will be invited to Ireland to take part in the fun from 4 – 17 March 2013, where there will be a range of exciting new and innovative events organised to get everyone speaking Irish.
The 2013 celebrations will not only have one or two ambassadors but three and they hope to motivate thousands of people to speak their native language during Seachtain na Gaeilge in 2013. Ambassadors include Róisín Ní Thiomáin from Galway who presents the Jig Gig on TG4, the Kilkenny native and Sports Presenter with RTÉ, Evanne Ní Chuilinn and the renowned Belfast boxer Paddy Barnes who represented Ireland at the Olympic Games in London in summer 2012.
Seachtain na Gaeilge will be celebrated all over Ireland in many other locations all over the world where the community have embraced a love the Irish language. In Ireland many local libraries and the National Museum of Ireland will hold many historical and various events which will give people the opportunity to practice their Irish.
Seachtain na Gaeilge celebrates the Irish language each years and also celebrates tour heritage, culture through various events such as concerts, conversation gatherings, traditional music, sean-nós and Irish dancing plus much more. Other events include historic walks. Poetry reading, surfing lessons, speed dating as Gaeilge, children’s event, storytelling, concerts, Irish language conversational gathering in many café’s plus much more.
To find out what’s happening in your area this Seachtain na Gaeilge visit: www.snag.ie
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