Proud to have commissioned this short video for our 2fm Ceol collaboration.<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>350,000 copies of CEOL 2018 le hEoghan McDermott landed in schools on September 26th<\/p>\n<p>With a spoken word introduction from Irish actress Saoirse Ronan and multi platinum artist Macklemore, the album was delivered to\u00a0every school\u00a0in the country on Wednesday September 26th where download codes was shared with thousands of third level students.<\/p>\n<p>Massive amount of work done by <a class=\"twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CnaG\" data-mentioned-user-id=\"21186006\">@CnaG<\/a> and <a class=\"twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaidioRiRa\" data-mentioned-user-id=\"21186146\">@RaidioRiRa<\/a> alongside Eoghan & 2fm team!<\/p>\n<p>The line-up for\u00a0<b>CEOL 2018 le hEoghan McDermott<\/b>, a compilation of some of the biggest songs of this year recorded by their original artists as Gaeilge\u00a0has been announced today.\u00a0Collectively, the original versions of these popular songs have accumulated over half a billion hits on Spotify – and now they are available in Irish!<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Prendergast, Kodaline said:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cMyself and Steve started the band in the Gaeltacht, so we\u2019ve always had a deep love and affinity for the language. We were delighted to be involved in CEOL this year, the scale of the album and the calibre of other artists involved make it one of the most exciting things to happen to the language in a long time.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Danny O’Reilly, front man of The Coronas said:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>“We love taking part in CEOL and we get a huge reaction when we sing one of our songs as Gaeilge anywhere in the world – people really connect with them. I hope that our song N\u00edlimid Br\u00e9agach\u00a0(We Couldn\u2019t Fake It)\u00a0on CEOL 2018 and all the other amazing tracks on the album will inspire people to use more Irish especially this year during Bliain na Gaeilge”<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Eoghan McDermott, RT\u00c9 2FM presenter and CEOL\u00a02018 curator\u00a0said:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>“I\u2019m so excited to announce the CEOL 2018 line-up. It\u2019s one hell of a list and includes Kodaline, John Gibbons\u00a0ft Soul\u00e9, Picture This, JP Cooper, Gavin James, The\u00a0Coronas, Parson James, Wild Youth & loads more fantastic artists.\u00a0We are especially honoured that after the untimely passing of Dolores O’Riordan, The Cranberries\u00a0have\u00a0very kindly gifted us\u00a0the use of\u00a0the original backing track for Linger, which has been recorded beautifully by Sib\u00e9al.\u00a0The album\u00a0has been in the making for over a year now, and the whole process has been phenomenal. In the last week of production, tracks were being\u00a0recorded in Dublin, London, LA\u00a0and\u00a0New York, which is awesome. Mega excited to share it with everyone!”<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Full Tracklisting for CEOL 2018 is:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0F\u00e1ilte go CEOL \u2013 Saoirse Ronan agus Macklemore<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Picture This – Is Sinne \u00d3g (When We Were Young)<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0JP Cooper – Amhr\u00e1n an Fh\u00f3mhair (September Song)<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Kodaline – Ag Fad\u00fa d’Aidhme (Follow Your Fire)<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0John Gibbons ft Soul\u00e9 – Sp\u00e9acla\u00ed Gr\u00e9ine sa Bh\u00e1isteach (Sunglasses in the Rain)<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Gavin James – I gC\u00f3na\u00ed (Always)<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wheatus – St\u00f3cach Brocach (Teenage Dirtbag)<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Academic – Do Chro\u00ed Anocht (Bear Claws)<\/p>\n<p>9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Parson James – Muid a Ghoid an Se\u00f3 (Stole the Show)<\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hudson Taylor – Mothaigh Ar\u00eds \u00c9 (Feel It Again)<\/p>\n<p>11.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Coronas – N\u00edlimid Br\u00e9agach (We Couldn’t Fake It)<\/p>\n<p>12.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wild Youth – M\u00e9 S\u00e1ite Ann (Can’t Move On)<\/p>\n<p>13.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Chasing Abbey – Labhair Liom (Talk To Me)<\/p>\n<p>14.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Delorentos –\u00a0 Insan N\u00f3im\u00e9ad (In the Moment)<\/p>\n<p>15.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sib\u00e9al with The Cranberries – Fuar\u00fa (Linger)<\/p>\n<p>16.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Seo Linn – Bain an Glas<\/p>\n<p>17.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0N\u00f3ra agus Jade – Fuil na n\u00d3g (Winners of BEO 2017)<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>CEOL\u00a02018 has been compiled by Conradh na Gaeilge and Raidi\u00f3 R\u00ed-R\u00e1 in conjunction with RT\u00c9 2FM as part of Bliain na Gaeilge. The album will be made available on CD and via digital download. This is the thirteenth edition of the annual album with the first album originally launched in 2005.\u00a0The album\u00a0has proven to be\u00a0hugely popular with young people and it is also is\u00a0an excellent resource in classrooms and\u00a0for\u00a0language learners.\u00a0The album is being supported by An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscola\u00edochta, Foras na Gaeilge and the Department of Culture, Heritage and Gaeltacht.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proud to have commissioned this short video for our 2fm Ceol collaboration. 350,000 copies of CEOL 2018 le hEoghan McDermott landed in schools on September 26th With a spoken word introduction from Irish actress Saoirse Ronan and multi platinum artist Macklemore, the album was delivered to\u00a0every school\u00a0in the country on Wednesday September 26th where download…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59,3],"tags":[118,120,54,119],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-09-at-22.08.50-e1539121421885.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}