Our blog serves as regular motivation for you to speak the Irish language. Find posts about culture, videos where you find how to say certain phrases, and member interviews to tell you about their experience of learning the language.

Awesome modern songs sung in the Irish language

Hat-tip to Bitesize Irish Gaelic member Kenna for this tip. Just watch and listen:

Sé amhrán le Chéile – TG Lurgan – Cainéal na Gaeilge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg90B-FMhZQ

The lyrics in Irish are on that YouTube video page, in the description of the video.

More rocking songs in Irish from Coláiste Lurgan

AMÚ Lurgan – “Drive By” le Train as Gaeilge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCWQg2Hx8Q4

BEO Lurgan – Some Nights cover le Fun as Gaeilge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zaq87L2tac

(With lyrics on the video description.)

Using music to learn Irish

Thanks to Kenna for the tip of the video above. The song was used in Donovan’s video about his trip to Oideas Gael this year.

Music gets our emotions going, and no wonder that songs in the Irish language (including traditional Irish songs) catch our interest.

The nice things about learning songs is that you get to repeat the same words and phrases over and over. No wonder little kids have rhymes and songs, passed on from older generations, to get them expressing themselves.

Use as many resources as possible to learn, including music videos

Learning Irish is hard, and we need all the language learning resources we can get.

There are excellent resources, including TG4 Irish language television that you can watch online, and listen to Raidió na Gaeltachta online.

Learning through cool modern songs is just another way to get familiar with the music. Mix and match, is our philosophy.

Coláiste Lurgan

So who created all those cool songs in this post? Coláiste Lurgan is a big Gaeltacht-based summer camp for Irish teenagers. Away from the school environment during summer, they get to practice their Irish in a fun environment.

A download of their songs (without lyrics)

Check their Irish songs download page for MP3s they have produced.

And definitely subscribe to the Coláiste Lurgan YouTube channel.

What Irish (Gaelic) songs have you found?

Looking forward to hearing in your comments below about more Irish music videos you think we should all watch.

Let’s finish up with one last video:

Holi Lurgan – Festival of Colours – Féile na nDathanna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LrRkHpB4do