Seachtain na Gaeilge 2014
January 15, 2014
This year’s Seachtain na Gaeilge will take place from 1st -17th March 2014 and promises to be the longest week of the years packed with cultural and Irish language events all over Ireland and around the world. Once again this year Seachtain na Gaeilge welcomes new individuals & groups and previous participants to organise an events/events during the 1st -17th march 2014. 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 2014 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 2014 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 2014. This year’s ambassadors include Máire Treasa Ni Dhubhghaill from Conamara, presenter on Rugbaí Beo and Ponc on TG4, the talented Dublin footballer and is a dual player for Castleknock, Ciarán Kilkenny and the BBC broadcaster and television presenter Lynette Fay from Dungannon, Co. Tyrone. 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 sessions, sean-nós and Irish dancing, children’s events 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 all over Ireland plus much more.
To register an event contact Seachtain na Gaeilge at +353 (0)1 4757401 / E eolas@cnag.ie
To find out what’s happening in your area this Seachtain na Gaeilge visit: www.snag.ie
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