Join Conchobhar Pádraig Ruadh as he shares insights from his own language journey, from his rediscovery of Irish as an adult learner and the topic of decolonization, to raising his child with Irish and his love of Sean-Nós singing.
Current attitudes to the Irish language can be shown to clearly be the consequence of the success, and extreme brutality, of the English colonization project in Ireland…
“An Gorta Mór (also referred to as ‘The Great Hunger’ or ‘The Irish Famine’) had a disastrous effect on Ireland and on the Irish language.”
“Our forebears knew the importance of their local environment and that we are ‘fite fuaite’ (interwoven) with the land. Language and land are inseparable, so changing our relationship to the land and all living creatures is vital if we want to decolonize our minds.”
So how do we begin to repair the damage, how do we find ourselves again, after the trauma of colonization? Here are the five stages in the process of decolonization…
So, is this the year you will engage with Irish? Will you join us for a course, comhrá session or ceardlann (workshop)?
