The Forgotten Gaeltacht
Nov 09, 2017•46 min
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Episode description
The Forgotten Gaeltacht captures the stories of the people, landscape,traditionslanguage and culture of the Omeath Gaeltacht together in the form of a 1hour documentary, over 50 years after the death of the last native Irish speaker and 90 years after the closure of Coláiste Bhríde, which was an Irish College set up in 1912 with important links to Irish revolutionaries such as Eoin MacNeill and Padraig Pearse.This college remained in Omeah until 1926 when it moved to Rannafast in Donegal, where it exists to this day.
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