{"id":944,"date":"2009-04-27T19:54:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T18:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=944"},"modified":"2009-04-27T19:54:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T18:54:24","slug":"irish-on-the-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"Irish on the radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of radio stations in Ireland and Northern Ireland that broadcast entirely or partly in Irish, and I listen to one of them, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/rnag\/\">Raidi\u00f3 na Gaeltachta<\/a>, reguarly. However I wasn&#8217;t aware until the other day that there&#8217;s a radio station in New York (<em>Nua Eabhrac<\/em>) that broadcasts a weekly radio show in Irish, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/tv\/articles\/2009\/04\/18\/radio_show_leads_the_way_for_gaelic_comeback\/\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfuv.org\/programs\/milefailte.html\"><em>Mile Failte<\/em><\/a>, is broadcast on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfuv.org\/\">WFUV-FM<\/a> and has been running since 1989. It originally lasted just 10 minutes, but has grown to an hour and includes Irish music, language lessons, poetry and information about Irish culture and history. The same station also broadcasts an Irish music programme called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfuv.org\/programs\/ceolnangael.html\"><em>Ceol na nGael<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a quite a few Irish speakers in New York, and plenty of Irish language classes in New York City and State, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daltai.com\/\">this site<\/a>. There&#8217;s some details of some of the Irish-speakers there on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/northernireland\/irish\/blas\/various_features\/snag_2007_newyork.shtml\">this site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of radio stations in Ireland and Northern Ireland that broadcast entirely or partly in Irish, and I listen to one of them, Raidi\u00f3 na Gaeltachta, reguarly. However I wasn&#8217;t aware until the other day that there&#8217;s a radio station in New York (Nua Eabhrac) that broadcasts a weekly radio show in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}