Projects - The Arts & Heritage
An Leabhar Mòr
Colmcille has been the one of the main financial supporters of an ambitious vision that was 7 years in the making and has surpassed everyone’s expectations.
Visual Contemporary Art Collaboration
Colmcille supported a programme involving the establishment of a scheme in which international artists would be brought to Gaeltacht areas to work in collaboration with artists from the visited region in question to realise specific work programmes.
Artists’ Exchange Programme
Colmcille developed a pilot scheme to establish an International visual artists’ exchange programme between the Gaeltachts of Ireland and Scotland.
Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy
This is the largest and most successful of the music summer schools in Ireland.
Armagh Pipers Club & Fèis an Earraich
The Armagh Pipers Club trains young musicians from south Ulster in centres in Armagh and Monaghan.
Éire is Alba
At the Mòd in 2008, and the Oireachtas in 2009, Colmcille invited Gaelic singers and sean-nós dancers to form a group which would work together to showcase Gaelic music and culture for an audience of Gaelic speakers.
Fèis nan Òran
For a number of years Colmcille organised a sean-nós festival at Tí Chulainn, An Mullach Bán.
Duais Cholmcille
Strokestown in Co. Roscommon hosts an international poetry festival where Gaelic poetry is given equal status with English. Colmcille has provided a prize fund for poems in Irish or Scottish Gaelic.
Féile na Gréine
For a number of years Colmcille has supported the participation of Scottish Gaelic artists at the Summer Solstice festival, Féile na Gréine, in Waterville, Co Kerry.
Glaschú na nGael
With the city of Glasgow playing such a key role in the lives and memories of Gaelic speakers from Ireland and Scotland, Colmcille, working in partnership with Conradh na Gaeilge and Ceòl ‘s Craic organised the the highly successful Glaschu na nGael weekend of language, music and craic.
Amra Choluim Cille
A stunning series of paintings by artist Brian Ferran based on the 6th century poem Amra Choluim Chille was at the centre of a project developed in a partnership between Colmcille, the ULTACH Trust, a cross-community Irish language organisation based in Belfast, and PNE, the Gaelic Arts Agency.
Lewis Psalm Singers
The Lewis Psalm Singers have made a significant contribution to the work of Colmcille and to cross-community understanding in Northern Ireland.
Fèill Chaluim Chille
The 9th June is the feast day of St Colmcille. In 2007 Colmcille organised the first Fèill Chaluim Chille in Gleann Cholm Cille, in partnership with Oideas Gael.
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Saoghal nan Gaidheal
Colmcille launched a major photographic competition, aimed at capturing the lives of speakers of Scottish or Irish Gaelic or of the life of the Gaelic speaking communities in the two countries.
The Colmcille Sessions
Colmcille supported an ambitious project to produce a series of six half hour television programmes exploring and celebrating the shared heritage of Scottish and Irish music and, particularly, Gaelic song.
