Irish Gaelic in Ireland
| pre-primary education | primary education | secondary education |
| Gaelscoil na Dúglaise | ||
| Gaelscoil Sáirséal Sráid an Droichid | ||
| Gaelscoil Riabhach | ||
| Gaelscoil Na Lochanna |
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Gaelscoil na Dúglaise
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| Contact person | Niamh Ní Mhaoláin |
| Website | www.gaelscoilnaduglaise.ie |
| Total number of teachers | 12 |
| Total number of pupils | 280 |
| Languages of instruction | Irish, English |
| Teaching material | The availability and quality of the Irish teaching material is reasonable. |
| Remarks | The main problems are the availability of teachers, ancillary staff with fluency in Irish, opportunities to expand the childrens Irish language beyond the classroom and the accuracy in the Irish language amongst children. Teaching aids and inservice training are also problematic for the school. |
| Gaelscoil Sáirséal Sráid an Droichid |
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| Contact person | Dónal Ó hAiniféin |
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| Total number of teachers | 11 |
| Total number of pupils | 225 |
| Languages of instruction | Irish, English |
| Teaching material | The availability and quality of teaching material is bad. |
| Remarks | The main problem at the moment is the supply of teachers, who are willing and able to teach in an immersion education setting. We also need to develop standardised reading tests for the Irish language and materials to help children with learning difficulties through the medium of Irish. |
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Gaelscoil Mhíchíl Cíosóg
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| Contact person | Dónal Ó hAiniféin |
| kerry.ennis@eircom.net | |
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| Total number of teachers | 10 |
| Total number of pupils | 191 |
| Languages of instruction | Gaeilge for all subjects except English |
| Teaching material | Availability and quality is reasonable |
| Remarks | The main problem at the moment is lack of support and understanding in Dept. of Education re Immersion education. Preservice and Inservice education for teachers teaching in immersion settings. Solution: An education that is willing to learn and a proper preservice and inservice facility for teachers dealing with education through irish. |
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Gaelscoil Riabhach
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| Contactperson | Pól Mag Lionáin |
| Website | www.gaelscoilriabhach.ie |
| Total number of teachers | 8 |
| Total number of pupils | 140 |
| Languages taught as subject | Gaelic, English (4-5 hours per week) |
| Languages of instruction | Gaelic only |
| Languages used outside formal lessons | Gaeilge and English |
| Skills trained in the minority language | Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing |
| Availability of the teaching material | Good |
| Quality of the teaching material | Reasonable |
| Developers of the teaching material | Teachers in the school or colleagues; Translations or adaptations from other languages; Publishing houses. |
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Gaelscoil Na Lochanna
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| Contactperson | Seán Ó Cearnaigh |
| E-mai | gaelscoilnalochanna@hotmail.com |
| Website | www.gaelscoilnalochanna.net |
| Total number of teachers | 4 |
| Total number of pupils | 51 |
| Languages taught as subject | Gaelic (1 hr a day), English (1 hr a day) |
| Languages of instruction | Irish, English (1 hr a day) |
| Languages used outside formal lessons | Irish |
| Skills trained in the minority language | Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing, Mediation (= all sorts of communication in which a language user acts as an intermediate, e.g. translation, paraphrase, summary) |
| Availability of the teaching material | Reasanable |
| Quality of the teaching material | Good |
| Developers of the teaching material | Teachers in the school or colleagues; Publishing houses. |
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