All over Ireland, from Cork to Dublin, from Belfast to Galway and Derry, and in every town and parish between, a powerful Gaelic cultural revival is taking root. Young people are embracing our native language, music, and identity with a confidence and creativity unseen in generations. Across the island, Irish youth culture is thriving with bands like Kneecap, Fontaines D.C., The Mary Wallopers, Amble, Kingfishr, and Chasing Abbey fusing traditional sounds and modern energy, proving that Irishnes

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Ireland recorded the Isle Of Man’s last native speakers of her Gaelic language Manx. The Manx language was dying out, with only a handful of elderly native speakers still alive in the late 1940s. A visit by DeValera, the Irish leader, resulted in recording equipment being bought and an Irish folklore collector sent to the Isle of Man with it in a recording van. He travelled to remote areas and recorded elderly people, probably born in the nineteenth century, whose mother tongue was Manx. Similar

24K views · 321 reactions | In this new Irish Language Broadcast Fund series, Jarlath Burns explores the untold story of the evolution of the Gaelic games in Ulster and the role the games played at the heart of community life. It is a story about people, passion and place, of parish and province, and a story of identity. Níos Mó ná Cluiche (More Than a Game) Sunday at 10.30pm on BBC Two NI. | Northern Ireland Screen | Facebook