LANGUAGE LESSONS

Róisín Dunsby is our newest Member of the Executive and is now our new Treorai na Gaeilge aka Language Officer.

Hamilton Irish Arts is holding Irish Language Lessons at the Irish Club of Hamilton. – 389 Concession Street, Hamilton, Ontario, L9A 1B8

We hold lessons on the 3rd Monday of each month (except when it is a holiday Monday, then it will be rescheduled) from 7 pm to 9 pm.  Check calendar for dates!!

Our teacher will continue to be Róisín Dunsby! We are excited and grateful to have her as our instructor. She loves to teach the Language through a cultural approach that is highly engaging and accessible!

There will be a $10 fee for the evening’s lesson, even to HIA members. This will assist with funding the facilitation of these lessons. We are grateful to the Irish Canadian Club for the use of their facility. HIA Chairperson, Sheila Corr, will be there at 6:30pm to welcome everyone and make the tea! There is no need to pre-register. If you haven’t attended a session yet, no fear! Come as you are and let’s learn about this wonderful aspect of our shared heritage together!

Upcoming Class
October 21st

See Events Calendar

To see the Comhaltas Canada You Tube video about IRISH LANGUAGE IN CANADA, click here

Looking to get a head start? Try out the Duolingo Language App.

Gaeltacht  – The website for the North American Gaeltacht.
Mother organization, Cumann na Gaeltachta, was founded by Séamus Mac Concharraige in 1994. The Gaeltacht site, in Tamworth/Erinsville, Ontario, was opened officially on 16 June 2007.

Dé do Bheathasa – Hello!

My name is Dónall and I am the elected head of the North American Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking area), and I wanted to reach out to share our virtual exhibition with you just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, as Hamilton features prominently in the exhibit. I have worked with several museums and archives in Canada and Ireland, including the Hamilton library and the Bishop Farrell archives, to be able to present artefacts and composition surviving from the Irish oral record, as well as hand illuminated manuscripts, poems, and stories.

This exhibit is based on peer-reviewed research and brings emphasis for the first time to the works of the many Irish speakers right across Canada, from 1563 through to today. Featured are numerous Ontario speakers, and this story would be incomplete without that of Hamilton-born Cornelius Donovan. Working from the print offices of the Hamilton Times, Donovan (1847-1895) strongly advocated for his language, the Irish language, and published lessons across North America in his periodical “The Lamp.” Donovan was deeply respected by Hamilton’s Irish community, which by 1871 was around 13% of Hamilton’s total population.

I do hope that you will find interest in this exhibit, which we have made free and publicly accessible online at https://www.gaeilge.ca/irish-language-in-canada-intro, and hope that it will help to bring much more attention to the Hamilton’s and Canada’s Irish Gaelic heritage, revealing a core but unrecognized part of the Irish-Canadian experience. If you know of others who may be interested in this research, please do not hesitate to pass this information along.

The material on Donovan can be accessed here: https://www.gaeilge.ca/culture-public/author-donovan

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Dónall Ó Dubhghaill