Coláiste Lurgan is an independent summer school that runs three-week Irish-language immersion courses in the
Connemara
Connemara (; )( ga, Conamara ) is a region on the Atlantic coast of western County Galway, in the west of Ireland. The area has a strong association with traditional Irish culture and contains much of the Connacht Irish-speaking Gaeltacht, w ...
Gaeltacht
( , , ) are the districts of Ireland, individually or collectively, where the Irish government recognises that the Irish language is the predominant vernacular, or language of the home.
The ''Gaeltacht'' districts were first officially recog ...
village of
Inverin in County Galway.
As part of their student-directed focus in language teaching, the school runs
TG Lurgan
TG Lurgan is a musical project launched by Coláiste Lurgan, an independent summer school based in Connemara, a Gaeltacht, where the Irish language is the predominant spoken language. TG Lurgan releases interpretations as covers of many popular ...
, an initiative for helping students to acquire vocabulary by producing covers of popular music. The pop group,
Seo Linn, was formed following the success of some of these covers.
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Summer schools
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