Irish Language Retreat Centre Fundraiser

We are Siobhán and Diarmuid, founders of Wild Irish, an enterprise founded in 2017 for the reclamation and evolution of our native language and heritage; through which we hold retreats, workshops, events and educational experiences rooted in the Irish language.

We have been given an extraordinary opportunity to buy the house and land in South Kilkenny before it goes on the open market. Here we will create a unique Irish Language and Culture Centre, the first of its kind in Ireland.  

To date, we have helped hundreds of people to reconnect with the Irish language, our heritage and the holy ground beneath our feet. Now we need help to raise €125,000 of the €260,000 offer we've made, in a short space of time.

With the purchase of this place we will be able to respond to the great demand that we have encountered from people to learn heritage/survival skills, to speak Irish in the everyday, outside of an institutional setting and to gather together in community celebrations.

We’re calling it: ‘Teach Aniar’ (lit. ‘coming from the west’) , the Irish word for ‘Resilience’. It aptly describes our journey from the remote western Gaeltacht of Corca Dhuibhne to our native ‘ceantar’. Having rediscovered and refined our Gaeilge, we have carried it home like an ember in the pocket, ag lorg an tinteán chun é a lagadh síos (seeking the hearth to set in).

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Get in touch here or donate at the link at the top of the page.

• Revolut: +353-86-1023833
• Paypal: diarmuidlyng@gmail.com