Back to the root
A collective of linguists, teachers, and native speakers working to keep a regional language alive — in classrooms, archives, and at the table where three generations argue over verb conjugations.
Three pillars of revival
Educate
Morning assemblies to university seminars
Archive
Digitising oral histories before they pass
Celebrate
Annual festival, three generations, one table
Each pillar is equal weight. None survives without the others — the classroom feeds the archive, the archive fills the festival, the festival sends children back to class.
Clár Oideachais
Education Programme
From morning assemblies in primary schools to evening classes for diaspora parents, our curriculum integrates the language into everyday life — not as a relic, but as a living tool.
Cartlann Digiteach
Digital Archive
University researchers are digitising oral histories, folk songs, and personal letters before the last fluent elders pass. Every recording is a sentence saved from silence.
Féile Bhliantúil
Annual Festival
Every August, three generations gather where verb conjugations are debated over tea and the language fills the air without apology. The festival is proof the language is not dying — it is arguing.
Clár Scoile
Headteachers across the region have woven the language into morning assemblies, reading corners, and art projects. Children who hear it before 9 a.m. are 3× more likely to use it at home by age 12.
St Brigid's Primary, Cork
4,200 pupils enrolled
Regional Education Centre
Cartlann Bheo
Our digitisation team travels to kitchen tables and care homes across three counties. Every elder who speaks into a microphone is adding a sentence to a language that cannot be rebuilt from dictionaries alone.
147 handwritten volumes
147 contributors, 3,200+ hours
Public access from Spring 2026
Féile Mhór
The annual festival is not a performance of a dying language — it is a living argument. Children correct their grandparents. Grandparents win. Everyone goes home knowing three new words.
2,400 attendees in 2025
3-day immersive camp
The verb conjugation debates
Hours Recorded
Oral histories archived
Lessons Delivered
Across 42 partner schools
Elder Contributors
Native speakers recorded
Active Members
In 12 countries worldwide
"Theagasc na páistí a dteaghlaigh féin."
"I introduced a ten-minute language slot before morning assembly. Within six weeks, three parents had emailed asking for the vocabulary list. The children were teaching their families."
Máire Ní Fhaoláin
Headteacher
St Colm's Primary School, Donegal
"Maireann na focail."
"We recorded Séamus last October. He was 94. He knew 200 words for rain. Two months later he was gone. That recording is now in the national archive — those 200 words still exist."
Dr Oisín Breathnach
Linguistic Researcher
University College Cork
"Sin é an pointe ar fad."
"My daughter was born in Birmingham. Last summer at the festival she corrected my grammar in front of my mother. My mother laughed so hard she cried. That is the whole point."
Sinéad Ó Callaghan
Diaspora Parent
Birmingham Irish Cultural Society
Be with us
Whether you are a headteacher integrating the language into assembly, a researcher with a hard drive full of recordings, or a parent who wants their child to hear bedtime stories in the same words their grandmother used — there is a seat at this table.
1,840 members already in the conversation