Milwaukee Irish Fest Summer School Instructors
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Rossa Ó Snodaigh
Instructor Website: https://kila.ie/
Teaching L01: Irish Language, Beginning (T-W-Th) and L03: Irish Language, Intermediate (T-W-Th) with Colm Ó Snodaigh
was raised speaking Gaelic in Dublin city along with his 5 brothers by their parents the artists, sculptor and writer Cliodhna Cussen and writer, publisher and historian Pádraigh Ó Sodaigh. Like his brothers he attended a Gaelic medium primary and secondary school where they formed the band Kíla together. He has run Gaelic conversation classes, ran the Irish language event series in Dublin's St Patrick's celebrations, ran 'An Pubal Gaeilge' the Gelic medium performance stage at the Electric Picnic (Ireland's biggest rock music festival). Upon leaving Dublin, he spearheaded the establishment of a Gaelic medium primary school in Cluainín in North Liatroim and was instrumental in getting the secondary unit open in the nearby town of Sligo.
He has had 6 Gaelic books published three kids books, two dictionaries and one phrase book 'Making Out in Irish', which covers all interactions from winking to waking up with someone.