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The following is a list of media available in theIrish language.
TG4, originally known as Teilifís na Gaeilge (TnaG), broadcasts on terrestrial television in both theRepublic of Ireland andNorthern Ireland. It has an annual budget of €34.5 million. The station has an audience of an average of 650,000 people each day in the Republic, a fifty per cent increase on what it was in the 1990s. The station's anchor shows are the long-running soap operaRos na Rún (160,000 weekly viewership), popular teen dramaAifric, nightly news programmeNuacht TG4 (viewership circa. 8,000), current affairs programme7 Lá and dubbed documentariesFíorscéal. Other popular programs include or have included a dating show,Eochair an ghrá, a documentary about the Irish language abroad,Thar Sáile, travel shows such asAmú Amigos (viewership 50,000),Seacht / Seven – a university drama set in Belfast (viewership 40,000), the dating gamePaisean Faisean,South Park in Irish, chat showArdán, talent showNollaig No. 1, and children's showsCúla 4 andSíle.
Cúla 4 is a digital channel and carries TG4's strand of children's programmes. Programmes are broadcast Mondays–Sundays from 7 am to 9 am, then from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm. At the Tourism and Sports post-Budget briefing, Minister Catherine Martin announced Cúla 4 will have its own TV channel launched by TG4. It's scheduled for 2023.
Irish public broadcaster RTÉ has one channel,RTÉ One, which broadcasts Irish-language programmes such as news bulletinNuacht RTÉ le TG4 and new programmes every year such as documentaries of various scandals that rocked IrelandScannal and community programmePobal. It was reported on Tuairisc.ie in 2018 that circa. 70,000 viewers watch Nuacht RTÉ every evening on RTÉ One.[1]
RTÉ News is a digital 24-hour news service available featuring national and international news. It broadcasts news mostly in the English language but alsoNuacht TG4 le RTÉ, the daily Irish language news bulletin on RTÉ ONE television and repeats Nuacht TG4 at 11:30 each night.
Houses of the Oireachtas Channel or Oireachtas TV is a digital television channel in the Republic of Ireland which broadcasts live from both the Irish houses of parliamentDáil Éireann andSeanad Éireann in Dublin and also broadcasts some Oireachtas committee meetings. It covers parliamentary debates in both official national languages English and Irish although it should be known that the vast bulk of Oireachtas debates take place through English.
The Northern Irish variant ofBBC Two has its own Irish-language department producing some well-known programmes such as:music programme for young peopleImeall Geall, music programmeBlas Ceoil, youth dramaTeenage Cics, documentaryIsteach Chun An Oileáin, cartoonNa Dódaí, interior-decor showGaisce Gnó and community programmeFéile an Phobail. It is funded by theIrish Language Broadcast Fund which has been given £12 million over a five-year period.
There are four radio stations that broadcast entirely in Irish:
Almost all othernational, regional and local stations also have at least one (usually weekly) Irish-language programme such as the following radio stations:
Outside Ireland:
National:
Regional / Community / Third Level:
A company called Digital Audio Productions specialising in all aspects of radio programming has created two very successfulTop 40 Oifigiúil na hÉireann andGiotaí brands of Irish-language radio programmes.
Top 40 Oifigiúil na hÉireann (Ireland's Official Top 40) is a new phenomenon, and it has become increasingly popular to hear the Irish Top 40 hits being presented entirely in Irish on what are regarded as English-language radio stations such as:
In addition to these, other newspapers which have Irish-language columns include:
LunguashopCom/irishSeveral computer software products have the option of an Irish-language interface. Prominent examples includeKDE,[3]Mozilla Firefox,[4]Mozilla Thunderbird,[4]OpenOffice.org,[5]LibreOfficeand various language packs for Microsoft products includingMicrosoft Office.[6]VBulletin the most popular software for hosting online chat forums has an Irish-language option. The option of using it is available on PeoplesRepublicofCork.com.
In 2012 Derry City-based independent developer Black Market Games releasedDead Hungry Diner, a fast-paced action-puzzler video game.[7] An Irish-language version ofDead Hungry Diner, in conjunction withForas na Gaeilge, was subsequently made available for free from Black Market Games' website, with the intent of promoting learning through Irish. This is credited as being the first commercial video game to be released in Irish.[8]
Minecraft has an Irish language option in a game released in 2012 in version 1.3.1.[9]
In 2015 the video game developerJohn Romero released a remake of the 1980s PC platformer,Dangerous Dave, featuring Irish as one of its languages.[10] Romero currently resides and works inGalway. Another game on which Romero was a key developer –Commander Keen – was used in 2005 by a fan called Benvolio to make a mod entirely in the Irish language:Bunny Basher 2.
In July 2021Among Us launched the official Irish language translation of the game.[11]
In 2008 the mobile phone makerSamsung said that it would create a mobile phone specifically for the Irish-language market, which would include Irish-language predictive text. Later that year Samsung announced that all of its new phones launched from 2009 onwards would have "Gael Fón" – a feature allowing Irish as a language option, including predictive text, which was developed by the company – as standard.[12]
Since 2012,Adaptxt, a predictive texting app forAndroid, also includes Irish as an available language.
TeachMe! Irish
Once every yearOireachtas na Gaeilge hold Gradaim Chumarsáide an Oireachtais which are the annual Irish language awards for the Irish language media.
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