Jennifer Horgan: Why can't we harness the spirit of Irish college when learning our national language? 

How do we focus on Irish as a living language and make it meaningful for all learners?

Áine Gallagher is a bilingual performer who is bringing her ‘guerilla’ Irish to the streets for Seachtain na Gaelige.

At school, I resented Irish. I felt like Marley’s ghost from A Christmas Carol, not dragging around my own sins, but weighed down by the chains of colonialism — a pawn in someone else’s game to right the wrongs of our past.

Summer Irish was different. That Irish was kissing a tall Dublin boy, lying with friends on warm Aran Island sand, feeling the wind blast against me as I descended a Kerry hill on my cousin’s bike.