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Aoife
Ní Thuairisg - Week 1
Aoife Ní Thuairisg was born in Inverin in Conamara and has two
brothers and one sister. Before working in television, she ran her
own business, a mobile sweet shop. Full Profile |
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Mairéad
Ní Mhaonaigh - Week 2
Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh was born and raised in the Gaoth Dobhair
Gaeltacht in northwest Donegal. Full Profile |
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Cian
Ó Cíobháin - Week 3
Cian Ó Ciabháin
was born in Cork city in 1975, but grew up beside the village of
Ballyferriter in the Kerry Gaeltacht. Full
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Mícheál
Ó Muircheartaigh - Week 4
Mícheál Ó Muircheataigh was born near Dingle in Co. Kerry but
now lives in Dublin. He is renowned as a sports commentator and
is regarded by many as one of the best in the business. Full
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Cathal
Ó Searcaigh - Week 5
Cathal Ó Searcaigh
was born near Gortahork in County Donegal, where he still lives.
He has, over the past decade, emerged as one of Ireland's most distinguished
modern day poets. Full Profile |
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Cynthia
Ní Mhurchú - Week 6
Cynthia Ní Mhurchú is a qualified barrister who has been practising
for six years now. She is a native of Carlow. Full
Profile |
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Louis
de Paor - Week 7
The poet, song-writer and scholar Louis
de Paor was born in Cork in 1961. He remembers his father taking
a very active interest in his children’s learning and encouraging
them to acquire Irish. Full Profile |
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Antaine
Ó Donnaile - Week 8
Antaine Ó Donnaile is originally from Armagh and works as a
broadcaster and producer with BBC Northern Ireland’s Aonad
na Gaeilge. Full Profile |
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Seán
Ó Tarpaigh - Week 9
Seán Ó Tarpaigh was born in 1960 in Kilkelly, Co. Mayo. He went
to Bolton Street College in Dublin where is got a degree in quantity
surveying. Full Profile |
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Breandán
de Gallaí - Week 10
Breandán de Gallaí was born and raised in the Gaoth Dobhair
Gaeltacht in Donegal. As one of the principle dancers with Riverdance,
he performed in front of thousands of people in Europe, Australia,
New Zealand, Japan and China. Full Profile |
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Brian
Ó Domhnaill - Week 11
Brian Ó Domhnaill is a well-known chef, who presents cookery
programmes on TG4 and writes a regular
column in the Irish weekly newspaper Foinse.
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Mairéad
Ní Fhlátharta - Week 12
Mairéad Ní Fhlátharta is from Baile an tSléibhe in Spiddal,
County Galway and is 23 years old. She has two sisters and four
brothers. Full Profile |
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Máire
Eilís Ní Fhlátharta - Week 13
Máire Eilís Ní Fhlátharta is an actress best known for her portrayal
of Caitríona in TG4’s soap ‘Ros
Na Rún’, a programme she has appeared in since it began in 1996.
Full Profile |
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Mícheál
Ó Domhnaill - Week 14
Mícheál Ó Domhnaill is originally from the Ring Gaeltacht in
Waterford but now lives in Sligo. He is well-known as the voice
of sport on TG4. Full Profile |
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Seán
Mac Réamoinn - Week 15
Seán Mac Réamoinn was born in Kilkenny but has been living in
Dublin for seven years now. Full Profile |
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Eoghan
Ó Neachtain - Week 16
Eoghan Ó Neachtain, originally from the Conamara Gaeltacht,
is well known as a rugby commentator and pundit on TG4.
Full Profile |
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Alex
Hijmans - Week 17
Alex Hijmans grew up in the town of Heemskerk in the north-west
of Holland, but he has been living in Galway for the past nine years.
He studied Celtic Language and Literature at the University of Utrecht
and spent a year in University College Galway (now NUI Galway) on
the Erasmus scheme. Full Profile |
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Aoife
Ní Chonchúir - Week 18
Aoife Ní Chonchúir was born in 1975 in Cill Chúile, beside Baile
na nGall in the west Kerry Gaeltacht. She attended secondary school
in Dingle and then went to University College Galway (now NUI Galway)
in 1993, graduating with a BA in Irish and Spanish in 1997. Full
Profile |
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John
Spillane - Week 19
John Spillane was born
in Cork. He graduated from University College Cork with a degree
in Irish and English. John spent two summers playing bass guitar
with Johnny Crowley’s group, a job which enabled him to earn money
from music for the first time. Full Profile |
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Cathal
Mac Coille - Week 20
Cathal Mac Coille grew up in the Dublin suburb of Clondalkin
and was educated at Coláiste Mhuire in the city centre and University
College, Dublin (BA Graduate, History and winner of Atkins Medal
for Irish History, 1971). Full Profile |
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