From Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
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Funding of €289,030 has been approved by the Minister of State for the Gaeltacht, Patrick O’Donovan T.D., for Foras na Gaeilge to reprint a wide range of Irish language publications which are either out of print already or are about to be.
With this grant, Foras na Gaeilge is aiming to meet the continuing demand and sales of these books. This funding will greatly assist in developing the Irish language at family level as well as promoting it as an everyday spoken language. Not only that, but it will build on and contribute to the valuable work undertaken by other stakeholders like Tuismitheoirí na Gaeltachta through, for example, the pacáiste tacaíochta teaghlaigh (family support package).
This grant will provide support to families raising children through Irish in the Gaeltacht, in Gaeltacht Service Towns, in the Irish Language Networks as well as Irish language learners and the language planning process generally.
Announcing the package, Minister of State O’Donovan had this to say:
“Foras na Gaeilge is doing very important work in fostering and strengthening the use of the language among the country’s young people as well as public bodies and other groups in the private and voluntary sectors in all matters pertaining to the Irish language.
The reprinting of these books is of particular importance because of the need for a wide range of books to be available to the Irish speaking community, especially in the Gaeltacht, covering a wide range of interests, subjects and genres and serving various levels of ability and fluency.
"To that end, I am pleased, as Minister of State, that my Department is able to provide this grant to Foras na Gaeilge, supporting the Government’s objectives around the implementation of the 20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010-2030.”
Notes to the editor:
Tuismitheoirí na Gaeltachta: Family Support Package