List of Irish-language media

List of Irish-language media

The following is a list of media available in the Irish language.

Television

TG4

"TG Ceathair" originally known as Teilifís na Gaeilge (TnaG) broadcasting on terrestrial television in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland with a potential population reach of 5-6 million. The station has a 3% audience share, with almost 800,000 people tuning into the station each day in the Republic, almost double what it was in the 1990s with an annual budget of €35 million. The station's anchor shows are the long-running soap Ros na Rún(160,000 weekly viewership), popular teen drama Aifric, crazy travel show Amú Amigos(viewership 50,000), Seacht - university drama set in Belfast(viewership 40,000) the dating game Paisean Faisean, South Park in Irish, chat show Ardán, music programmes Pop 4, X-Factor-style show Glas Vegas, and children's shows Cúla 4, Síle and the news programmes Nuacht TG4 (viewership 35,000) to mention but a few.

RTÉ News Now

A 24 hour live news service available on the RTE website featuring national and international news. It offers a mix of Irish language, English language and Irish sign language TV news bulletins and political programmes.

RTÉ International TV

("RTÉ Idirnáisiúnta" in Irish) A new digital TV station that is expected to be on air as of March 2009. It will also contain some Irish language programmes from TG4 and will be available in Ireland, UK, Europe and North America for the Irish ex-pat community.

Oireachtas TV

A proposed digital television channel in the Republic of Ireland from 2009, which will show live broadcasts from the both Irish houses of parliament Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann in Dublin. It will cover parliamentary debates in both Irish and English.

The Irish Film Channel

("Bealach Scannán na hÉireann" in Irish) is a new proposed digital TV station which is expected to show both Irish language, English language and European films.

RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland also air some Irish language shows.

Any complaints regarding the provision of services, including media in Irish within the Republic can be directed to An Coimisinéir Teanga (The Language Commissioner).

Radio

Irish language radio stations

There are six radio stations that broadcast entirely in Irish:
*RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta (RnaG) - is one of the national radio stations which is part of the RTÉ franchise.
** [http://www.rte.ie/rnag/anochtfm.html Anocht FM] broadcasts on the same frequency as Raidió na Gaeltachta but is aimed at a young audience.
* [http://raidiox.com/ Raidió Rí-Rá] - a youth-orientated chart music station, currently broadcasting on the internet.
*Raidió na Life - broadcasting in the Greater Dublin area.
*Raidió Fáilte - broadcasting in the Greater Belfast area.
* [http://www.rid.ie Radió Idirlíon / Internet Radio site]

tations with weekly irish language programming

Almost all national, regional and local stations also have regular Irish-language programming such as the following radio stations:

Outside of Ireland:
*3ZZZ; Melbourne Community Radio, Australia: Saturday and Sunday

In Ireland:
*BBC Radio Foyle, Derry
*FéileFM, Belfast
*NEAR FM 101.6FM, Dublin
*Wired Luimnigh 96.8 & 106.8FM, Limerick
*Splanc Céille Newstalk 106FM, National
*Radió Corca Baiscinn, County Clare
*Connemara Community Radio, County Galway
*Cork Campus Radio, Cork
*Dundalk FM100, County Louth
*Flirt FM, County Galway
*Liffey Sound FM, Dublin
*ICR FM, County Donegal
*i102-104FM, Connaught & Ulster
*FM104, Dublin
*Kfm, County Kildare
*South East Radio, County Wexford
*Midlands 103
*Highland Radio, County Donegal
*Galway Bay FM
*Ocean FM, County Sligo
*Mid-West Radio, County Mayo
*Shannonside FM, Connacht
*WLR FM, County Waterford
*Radio Kerry, County Kerry
*Tipp FM, County Tipperary
*Live 95FM, County Limerick
*Clare FM, County Clare

"Top 40 Oifigiúil na hÉireann" and "Giotaí"

A company called Digital Audio Productions specialising in all aspects of radio programming has created two very successful "Top 40 Oifigiúil na hÉireann" and "Giotaí" brands of Irish-language radio programmes. "Top 40 Oifigiúil na hÉireann" ("Ireland's Official Top 40") is a new phenomenon, and it has become increasingly popular to hear the Irish Top 40 hits being presented entirely in Irish on what are regarded as English-language radio stations such as:

*East Coast FM, County Wicklow
*Flirt FM, County Galway
*Galway Bay FM, County Galway
*LM FM, County Louth
*Midwest Radio
*NEAR FM 101.6FM, Dublin
*Newstalk, National
*Red FM, County Cork
*Spin 1038, Dublin
*Spin South West, Munster
*Wired FM, County Limerick

Print

Newspapers

Irish language daily/weekly/monthly newspapers

*Lá (7,000 circulation) - biggest selling and only Celtic language daily newspaper.
*Foinse (10,000 circulation) - biggest selling Celtic language weekly newspaper.
*Saol (monthly newspaper)

Newspapers with Irish language columns

In addition to this, most English-language newspapers have Irish-language columns, including those produced by political parties, such as Sinn Fein's "Saoirse".

* Metro Éireann - Irish language columns
* The Irish Times - Irish language columns
* The Irish Examiner - Irish language columns
* Irish News - Irish language columns
* Irish Echo - Irish langauge columns
* An Phoblacht - Irish language coumns

Magazines

* [http://www.waterford-today.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3679&Itemid=1&ed=353 Anam Beo, based in Brussels]
*An tUltach - "Ulsterman" magazine.
*Comhar - Monthly current affairs magazine.
* [http://www.feasta.ie Feasta] - Monthly current affairs magazine.
* [http://www.nosmag.com/ nós*] - Monthly youth magazine.
* [http://www.gael-image.com An Doras] - North American magazine.
* [http://www.irelandofthewelcomes.com Ireland of the Welcomes] - Irish tourism magazine.

* Càrn
* Celtica
* Cuisle
* Cumasc
* Éigse
* An t-Eolaí - science magazine
* An Gaeilgeoir
* Harvard Celtic Colloquium - 1981-1994
* Iris na Gaeilge - (magazine from the society "Irish Cambridge"
* Journal of Celtic Language Learning
* Journal of Celtic Linguistics
* International Congress of Celtic Studies: (1959-1995)
* Luimne - Mary Immaculate Colledge magazine, 1999-2000
* Muintir Acla
* An Músgraigheach, 1943-1945
* Oghma
* Táin - Australian magazine with Irish columns
* Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie - 1987-1997

Publishers

*Carroll Heinemann
*Cló Ceardlann na gCnoc
*Cló Iar-Chonnachta
*Cois Life Teoranta
*Coiscéim
*Dubh Iontas Design Studio

Internet

* [http://www.rte.ie/nuacht/ Nuacht RTÉ (News)]
* [http://www.nuacht.com Nuacht (News)]
* [http://www.beo.ie BEO (News)]
* [http://www.foinse.ie Foinse (News)]
* [http://www.gaelport.com/ Gaelport (News)]
* [http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=31 Boards.ie (Irish language forum)]
* [http://www.politics.ie/viewforum.php?f=96 Politics.ie (Irish language forum)]
* [http://sluggerotoole.com/index.php/weblog/C16/ Slugger O'Toole (Irish language forum)]
* [http://imeall.blogspot.com/ Imeall audio blog]
* [http://www.cainteoir.com Cainteoir blog]

oftware

Several computer software products have the option of an Irish-language interface. Prominent examples include KDE,cite web
url=http://www.kde.ie/ga.php
title=KDE Irish Gaelic translation
publisher=kde.ie
accessdate=2007-07-11]
Mozilla Firefox,cite web
url=http://gaeilge.mozdev.org/
title=Firefox in Irish
publisher=mozdev.org
accessdate=2007-06-19]
Mozilla Thunderbird,
OpenOffice.org, [cite web
url=http://ga.openoffice.org/
title=Bogearra den scoth, chomh maith agus a bhí sé ariamh, anois as Gaeilge
language=Irish
publisher=openoffice.org
accessdate=2007-06-19] and Microsoft Windows XP, [cite web
url=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0db2e8f9-79c4-4625-a07a-0cc1b341be7c&displaylang=ga
title=Windows XP Pacáiste Comhéadan Gaeilge
language=Irish
publisher=Microsoft
accessdate=2007-06-19.]

Mobile technology

In May 2008, the mobile phone maker Samsung said that it would create a mobile phone specifically for the Irish language market, which would include Irish language predictive text.

ee also

*Gaelic Revival - Irish language revival
*Gaelscoileanna Irish-medium education
*Gaelic broadcasting in Scotland
*List of Celtic language media

References

External links

* [http://www.gaeilge.ie Gaeilge.ie]
* [http://www.digitalaudioproductions.com/top40.shtml Top 40 Oifigiúil na hÉireann]
* [http://www.digitalaudioproductions.com/goitai.shtml Giotaí]
* [http://www.gaelport.com Gaelport]
* [http://www.coimisineir.ie/ Irish language comissioner]


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