Conradh na Gaeilge is at the forefront of campaigns to protect and promote the Irish language whilst securing and strengthening the rights of the Irish-language and Gaeltacht community.
Conradh na Gaeilge continously campaigns for issues of importance for the Irish language by meeting with politicans, civils servants and other relevant personnel; lobbying; corresponding; submitting parliamentary questions; recommending amendments to Oireachtas bills; making submissions; seeking support from political parties; seeking support from the general public; organising conferences and information days for politicans; and more to achieve the following advocacy aims:
- To fully implement The 20 Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010 – 2030 in the south and to ensure there is a structure with input from the community in place to support its implementation
- To ensure that the Irish-Language Strategy in the north is comprehensive and takes the lessons learned from the strategy in the south into account
- To protect and strengthen Irish-language institutes
- To protect and promote the Irish language in the education system
- To protect, promote and/or advance the Irish language in our country’s legislation
- To promote the Irish language within the European Union and to do away with the derogation of the status of Irish therein
- To call for names in Irish only for new state companies
- To safeguard the prominence of the Irish language in the new postcode system in the south
- To safeguard the position of the Irish language in the public sector reform
- To oblige RTÉ and other state companies to fulfil their Irish-language obligations
- To increase the visibility of the Irish language on Irish road signs
- To develop and extend An tSeirbhís Saor-Chomhairle Dlí Náisiúnta, the national free legal advice service through Irish, in association with FLAC
