Mile Failte

Mile Failte - 12/08/12

by Seamus Blake
Mile Failte for December 8th with Seamus Blake: Next Saturday, 12/15, at the New York Irish Center, in Long Island City, the Irish language book club, Club Leabhar Nua Eabhrac, discusses the novelistic parody by Brian O Nuallain, alias Myles NaGopaleen, also alias Flann O'Brien, "An Beal Bocht," satirizing the middle-class, urban Irish enthusiasts of over 70 years ago.

Mile Failte - 12/01/12

by Seamus Blake
Mile Failte for December 1st with Seamus Blake: An tOireachtas 2012, the major Irish language Festival, held in two weeks, one section at Bealtaine [summer], the second section at Samhain [winter]; the literary awards and singing and other stage prizes.

Mile Failte - 11/03/2012

by Seamus Blake
Mile Failte with Seamus Blake for November 3rd: Happy Celtic New Year, when the old year ends in darkness and the New Year begins in darkness and the Otherworld is in intimate contact with the everyday world.

Mile Failte - 9/22/2012

by Seamus Blake
Mile Failte with Seamus Blake for September 22nd: I will participate in a series of presentations about the Celtic languages: Irish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton, which will be part of the program on Small and Endangered Languages at the Main Building of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue, next Saturday, the 29th of September.