Which Gaeltacht?

sarah_gaeilge

I want to go to the Gaeltacht/Irish summer course this summer and I was wondering which one would you recommend? I am in second year and am going with a few friends. I want to go to a gaeltacht that I'll hav plenty of craic at but will still learn some Irish before I enter the junior cert. thanks!

An Coilean

sarah_gaeilge wrote: »

I want to go to the Gaeltacht/Irish summer course this summer and I was wondering which one would you recommend? I am in second year and am going with a few friends. I want to go to a gaeltacht that I'll hav plenty of craic at but will still learn some Irish before I enter the junior cert. thanks!

Is there any particular dialect you want to focus on?

deirdremf

sarah_gaeilge wrote: »

I want to go to the Gaeltacht/Irish summer course this summer and I was wondering which one would you recommend? I am in second year and am going with a few friends. I want to go to a gaeltacht that I'll hav plenty of craic at but will still learn some Irish before I enter the junior cert. thanks!

If you're in secondary school and you want to learn Irish, I'd advise any of the following:

Spleodar
Cumann na bhFiann
Coláiste Chamuis

Nos. 1 & 3 in Conamara.
Cumann na bhFiann has courses in various places around the country.

For the record, I'm not connected to any of them!

Moonbeam

http://www.colaistephobalchleire.ie/ nó Colaiste Chiarain
Chaill mé cúpla samhraidh ann agus bhí sé ar fheabhas.


Though I still can not spell.

gubbie

I highly recommend Colaiste na bhfiann. If you want to learn Irish go somewhere with a strict enough policy on English.

You'd be looking at the B-centre. Book fast if you're going there as places seem to be filling up quickly!
http://www.colaistenabhfiann.ie/index.php?page=news&action=view_item&news_id=54

I just looked up fees... another Irish college I attended 14 years ago was £190 (about €220), it's now €800. Wow things got expensive fast.

EDIT: I also just remembered that you said you were going with friends. When I went they purposefully split all friends so that everyone in a house were strangers giving everyone an opportunity to meet and talk to new people and not constantly hanging out with your old mates. It sounds daunting but because everyone is in the same boat, it's brilliant! I still saw my friend a lot, in class, sports and the ceili though.

Absoluvely

I recommend against Coláiste Chamuis.
I was there about 8 years ago.

I recommend Coláiste Ó Direáin.
Was there 6 years ago.

The whole experience probably mostly depends on the staff and students at the courses when you happen to be there more than the venues though.

Gumbi

Absoluvely wrote: »

I recommend against Coláiste Chamuis.
I was there about 8 years ago.

I recommend Coláiste Ó Direáin.
Was there 6 years ago.

The whole experience probably mostly depends on the staff and students at the courses when you happen to be there more than the venues though.

Cad a bhí cearr leis?

Absoluvely

I was at An Tulach [one of the three Coláiste Chamuis venues].
The big field was nice but that's really the only thing I liked about it.
It was far too strict; the staff, the assistants and the housewoman.
I don't think there was a good atmosphere there. People were stressed.
The food was bad and there wasn't enough.
And quite a lot of people got sent home [not me].

In my experience, CÓD was by faaar the best.
But that's really because it was a great group of people there.
And I don't know if that's the case every year.