The Great Gabby Curran and the Inimitable Mickey Doran in this snap (Bailiúchán an Ghaelárais/Gaeláras Collection) – taken during the broadcast output of the week-long licence for the innovative, bilingual, “Raidió an Iúir” as organised by the dynamic Newry Council Irish Language Officer at the time (Pilib). We would love to have copies of the programmes for our archive but have failed to unearth them. An bhfuil cóipeanna ag duine ar bith? Más buan ár gcuimhne, tháinig Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh le linn na seachtaine, bhí banners lasmuigh den bhaile, agus bhí an Cheardscoil lárnach sa bhfiontar. An raibh t-léine ann fosta? (Coincidentally, two of the girls who attended the Raidió an Iúir practical workshop, [they were GCSE Media Studies students from Armagh], went in to become an established playwright in one case, and the other is a Film Special Effects expert of international reputation. In some unforeseen way, the Raidió an Iúir experience just may have inspired them).
Gaeláras Mhic Ardghail 