#tg4 — Public Fediverse posts
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Great news, missed it when it came out.
TG4 Extends Tour de France Broadcast Rights Until 2030
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TG4: Cartlann TG4 Launched: An Online Research Archive Site, a New Service Which Enables You to Step Back in Time. “TG4 wishes to improve access to the station’s digital archive. Cartlann TG4 contains a valuable and diverse collection of material, reflecting Irish history, culture, music, sport, news, current affairs, entertainment and community life through the medium of the Irish language.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/12/cartlann-tg4-launched-an-online-research-archive-site-a-new-service-which-enables-you-to-step-back-in-time-tg4/ -
Scéalta Grá na hÉireann – The Ladies of Llangollen
I just watched a nice documentary programme on the Irish language channel TG4 in the series Scéalta Grá na h’Éireann (Ireland’s Greatest Loves). This one was about Lady Eleanor Charlotte Butler and the Honourable Sarah Ponsonby, often called The Ladies of Llangollen. The programme is available on the TG4 Player, actually, and it is possible I think to watch the whole thing anywhere in the world for free here. There’s also a little trailer on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTkId6MfYcc
There’s an entire wikipedia page devoted to the Ladies of Llangollen, so there’s no need to reproduce it all here. However, for the sake of you who haven’t heard of them, they were. They were of Anglo-Irish extraction, both born in Ireland, and had been brought up just a few miles away from each other. They met in 1768 and immediately hit it off. They ran off together to avoid being forced into unwanted marriages, and moved to Wales in order to set up home at Plas Newydd, near Llangollen in Denbighshire, in 1780.
They lived together for the best part of 50 years in Plas Newydd, in relative seclusion, devoting their time to private studies of literature and languages and improving their estate, comprehensively redesigning the house in a Gothic style, and adding a superb garden. They did not actively socialise and town-dwellers of Llangollen seem to have regarded them as eccentrics, simply referring to them as “The Ladies”.
Gradually, their life attracted the interest of the outside world. Their house became a haven for all manner of visitors, mostly writers such as Wordsworth, Robert Southey, Shelley, Byron and Scott, but also the military leader Duke of Wellington and industrialist Josiah Wedgwood; aristocratic novelist Caroline Lamb, who was born a Ponsonby, came to visit too. Even travellers from continental Europe had heard of the couple and came to visit them, for instance Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, the German nobleman and landscape designer who wrote admiringly about them.
The story of the “romantic friendship” between these two ladies is both charming and moving, but it’s also fascinating to learn how their lifestyle was accepted and even celebrated by wider society. One might have thought their relationship would have been regarded as scandalous by their contemporaries, rather than being widely admired as it turned out to be. One is tempted to assume that their “marriage” had a sexual dimension, which it may well have done, but it could have been a platonic, yet still romantic, friendship. As far as I’m concerned, that doesn’t really matter; what I find inspiring about them is that they dared to be different.
Anyway, here is the beautiful sonnet that William Wordsworth wrote after meeting the Ladies of Llangollen in 1824, although I believe the Ladies took exception to the description of their magnificent house as a “low-roofed cot”!
A stream, to mingle with your favourite Dee,
#EleanorButler #Llangollen #PlasNewydd #SarahPonsonby #ScéaltaGráNaHÉireann #TG4 #WilliamWordsworth
Along the vale of meditation flows;
So styled by those fierce Britons, pleased to see
In Nature's face the expression of repose;
Or haply there some pious hermit chose
To live and die, the peace of heaven his aim;
To whom the wild sequestered region owes
At this late day, its sanctifying name.
Glyn Cafaillgaroch, in the Cambrian tongue,
In ours, the Vale of Friendship, let 'this' spot
Be named; where, faithful to a low-roofed Cot,
On Deva's banks, ye have abode so long;
Sisters in love, a love allowed to climb,
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Donegal school garden transformed in TG4 series Réabhlóid ar Chúl an Tí https://www.allforgardening.com/1754801/donegal-school-garden-transformed-in-tg4-series-reabhloid-ar-chul-an-ti-2/ #Arranmore #Donegal #garden #TG4
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Donegal school garden transformed in TG4 series Réabhlóid ar Chúl an Tí https://www.allforgardening.com/1754698/donegal-school-garden-transformed-in-tg4-series-reabhloid-ar-chul-an-ti/ #Arranmore #Donegal #garden #TG4
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Has anyone seen LingoPie? You can learn languages by watching tv with subtitles and hovering over the subtitles shows the translation.
Obviously this costs money because capitalism but there is a massive opportunity out there for people encouraging use of languages outside their population centre.
S4C, for example, has both Welsh and English subtitles for everything so with a bit of will and clever coding we could have the Welsh version of this for free :)
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'Cad É Sin Don Té Sin' - Miadhachlughain Ní Dhómhnaill
Ceol ón Earagail | TG4
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I'd love to see a news item on how the superb TG4 coverage of Tour de France was put together - where did they get the drone footage, who were the reporters, etc. The reporters obviously had excellent French and sound local knowledge as well as expertise on the Tour and cycling generally
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There is a TG4 documentary [2023] about the 8 queer women that were at the heart of the Irish revolution, description/overview here:
https://gcn.ie/queer-women-irish-revolution-tg4-documentary/
I happen to find it online for free and will watch it tomorrow, English subtitles are provided:
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#Masodaoine Today at 20:30, TG4 airs a new documentary about Galway Hookers, featuring boat builders, volunteers, and all those involved in preserving these iconic Galway sailboats and traditional sailing craft.
Don’t miss it!
#Galway #Gaillimhe #TG4 #gaelige #GalwayHookers #Húicéirí #HÚICÉIRÍNAGAILLIMHE #ireland
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Tá fearg dearg orm as na foth-theidil i mBéarla atá ar na gcláracha ar TG4 - níl foth-theidil as Gaeilge ann ach ar Ros na Rún. Seolaigi litir do #MichaelD ag lorg foth-theidil as Gaeilge ann - tá an teanga faoi a dóthain bhrú gan Béarla ag stad ós chomhair na daoine ag labhairt Ghaeilge ar an scannán! #TG4 #FoththeidilBéarla #Uacharáin
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https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/0130/1493253-40-irish-movie-classics-available-to-watch-free-online/
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[09:01] 35% say the standard of living is worse now - Exit Poll
More than one in three people who took part in the RTÉ, Irish Times, TG4 and Trinity College Dublin Exit Poll carried out by Ipsos B&A immediately after voting yesterday said their standard of living has worsened over the past year, while just over one in 10 said it has improved.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/1130/1483886-standard-of-living-has-worsened-in-past-year-exit-poll/
#Morethanone #three #RTÉ #IrishTimes #TG4 #TrinityCollegeDublinExitPoll #IpsosB&A #yesterday #thepastyear #justoverone #10 -
Tá am géarchéim tithíochta chomh géar sin go bhfuil dhá chlár teilifíse i nGaeilge ar siúl ar an am céanna faoi bogadh tí anois. #BogAmach ar #RTÉ2 agus #MovingWest ar #TG4
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Some interesting stuff on #TG4 this Christmas!
Movies that were actually made in Irish, such as Róise & Frankie, Finky, Arracht and Foscadh, alongside a whole bunch of animated movies as #Gaeilge
Smurfs: The Lost Village
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Louis & Luca and the Snow Machine
Nollaig an Yeití
The Boss Baby
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Frozen in Time
Cleo
Miraculous: Shang-hai, Finscéal an Dragain
Curious George, Moncaí Ríoga
My Little Ponyhttps://www.thejournal.ie/tg4-christmas-schedule-6245746-Dec2023/
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Watching #TG4 documentary #RadicalHearts about lesbian couples in the War of Independence, I think there’s an untold (afaik) of the radicals in more recent Irish history eg in the 50s - the socialists, the republicans, the intellectuals, the theatre people, the emerging feminists, in a conservative Catholic Ireland. They were always there, and many found each other. I remember stories my parents told.
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@sinabhfuil It’s fascinating. Enjoying it while doing night tasks, but will have to watch the rest on catch up. Not a lot of contemporary footage or even photos of the women I suppose leading to the fillers. Interviewees are excellent #TG4 #RadicalHearts
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Sraith nua ar TG4 "Réabhlóid ar Chúl an Tí" ag lorg rannpháirtithe. Spriocdháta: 24 Samhain. [email protected]
Má tá clós agat agus tú ag iarraidh rud a dhéanamh ar mhaithe leis an mbithéagsúlacht, seans go mbeidh suim agat páirt a ghlacadh.
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Currently watching "Tarrthálaithe na hÉireann" on #TG4, about the #CoastGuard, mountain rescue teams and community rescue boats across #Ireland, the people who will be called on to rescue this "brave" fisherman if he gets swept off those rocks. Or recover his body.
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Just watched a program about the #housingcrisis on #TG4, and there is one thing in #Ireland that I can't comprehend.
Right beside the house that we rent, there are three empty houses, large enough to accommodate a normal Irish family. The owners of the properties come from time to time to mow the grass and cut the hedges, but otherwise, these perfectly livable houses stand empty. It's been more than a year since I moved here, and they are just standing there empty. #mastodaoine1/N
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Just caught the #Tg4 programme on The Sawdoctors. Even today, I love their music! Then to hear Tolü Mackay singing a different but stunning version of #N17 ..
These types of programmes, and other stories of history and current events through such series as Nationwide, make me happy about our public broadcasting service. Never mind the drama with certain people and a very poor senior executive team, many others do a brilliant job.
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Snugcheol is one of my favorite programs. #TG4 is such a treasure.
#ceol #Snugcheol #consairtín #JackTalty #áineBird
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@AccordionBruce
Have you seen this program he and his father, accordionist Breanndán O Beaglaoich made on #tg4? They travel around Ireland in a camper van visiting and playing with other musicians in their homes and beautiful local settings. It's so beautifully, done, it's almost like being there in the sessiún with them!https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/online-boxsets/?series=Sl%C3%AD%20na%20mBeaglaoich&genre=Ceol
