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Welcome Note

Is cultur tuaithe i cultur na hEireann. Ta ceol, litriocht, dramaiocht agus cluichi na tire suite ins na ceanntracha tuaithe. Ta an saol tradisiunta bunusach seo i mbaol anois toisc an coras gallda pleannala ata i bfeidm sa tir le blianta beag anuas. Ta an coras pleannala seo bunaithe ar riactanaisi na Breathaine ata eagsuil in iomlan o riactanaisi na Eireann.

Buniodh Cumann Lucht Conaithe na Tuaithe breis is blian o shoin chun coras Gaelach  a chur in ionad an coras mi daonfhlaitheach ata ann faoi lathair. Ta an-taciochit faighte againn le blian anuas o ceann ceann na tire. Cheana fein ta tacaiocht faighte againn on rialtas agus ta gach dochas againn go neireiogh linn ar cuspoiri a bhaint amach. Ta tosach maith deanta agus le bru agus comhoibriu o muintir na tuaithe ar fad beidh an bua againn.

Cathal MacGabhann.

Chairman IRDA.

About the IRDA

The IRDA is a voluntary, non-profit, non-political and non-sectarian organisation. It is registered as a Company Limited by Guarantee and will be seeking charitable status.

The IRDA main aim is:

“To unite all rural dwellers and people of goodwill towards rural Ireland and in the context of peaceful, multi cultural co-existence in the common cause of ensuring, by legal and constitutional means, the growth and maintenance of a vibrant, populated countryside in the traditional Irish forms of baile fearann or dispersed village, sraid bhaile or street village and the clachan or nucleated (clustered village)”.

Its success to date is due entirely to the unstinting and huge voluntary impact by individuals throughout the country – many of whom are considerably out of pocket as a result.

The individual aspect of taking responsibility for, not alone the future of the IRDA, but for the future of our countryside cannot be over emphasised. Within the IRDA there should never be a `them and us’ situation between elected officers and everybody else. To paraphrase John F. Kennedy – it is not a matter of what `they should be doing’ nor indeed `what we should be doing’ but rather the question must be `what should I be doing to make things happen’.

IRISH RURAL DWELLERS ASS.

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