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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Aug 27

Irish classes starting mid September in the Skainos Centre.

Register below:

turasbelfast.com/classes/

Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Aug 19

This year I’ll be teaching two total beginners classes, in Cairnshill Methodist Church on Monday evenings and Wednesday morning in Turas and an online intermediate class every Wednesday at lunchtime.
Check out all of our classes below:

turasbelfast.com/classes/

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · May 13

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

Teacher from Irish language school in east Belfast invited to meet King Charles III in recognition of education work

A teacher at east Belfast’s first Irish language school has been invited to meet with King Charles III for her work in the local learning sector.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Apr 18

Upcoming dates for the Gaelic East Belfast Bus Tour.

‘Fantastic tour, as someone who has lived in East Belfast all my life and thought I knew it all about the East my goodness I didn’t half get my eyes opened to a whole bunch of facts & stories.’ Jake

turasbelfast.com/events/categ...

Gaelic East Belfast Bus Tours by Journey East

Gaelic East Belfast Bus and Walking Tours by Journey East Gaelic history bus tours in east Belfast and Belfast, Northern Ireland

turasbelfast.com

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Apr 5

Scoil na Seolta
44A Montgomery Road

Pre-school places have been allocated!

We’re so delighted with all the new families coming to Scoil na Seolta.

We have a small number of pre-school places still available for Sep, but families will need to get in touch asap.

[email protected]

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Feb 7

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Feb 6

This video is a joy to watch! Míle buíochas to @IrishTimes, @SeaninGraham22 and Enda. @ScoilnaSeolta

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Scoil na Seolta school brings the Irish language to Belfast’s loyalist heartland

In an area once a bastion of unionism the school has become a symbol of east Belfast’s altered political landscape and demography

www.irishtimes.com

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Jan 23

A new choice for parents in east Belfast - an Integrated school and nursery which teaches through the medium of Irish.

Scoil na Seolta @scoilnaseolta.bsky.social · Jan 22

Maidin mhaith! There are two days left to apply for a pre-school place. Deadline is 12 noon this Friday, 24th January.

We loved meeting everyone at our new building at the Open Morning. Here’s a little peek inside!

www.eani.org.uk/parents/admi...

Inside our new school building. A big, bright airy room, with children’s drawings and Irish words on the wall, some little tables and chairs, and the room laid out for a pre-school day.

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Jan 18

Looking forward to welcoming parents to our open morning today between 10 and 12.

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Jan 8

The Education Authority portal for Pre-school applications opens this Friday, 10th January. Link below.

From September, our Naíscoil will offer daily 4 hour sessions, 8.45am - 12.45pm, with school meals available, on Montgomery Road in east Belfast.

www.eani.org.uk/parents/admi...

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Jan 5

It’s an exciting time for Scoil na Seolta, the first Integrated School to teach through the medium of Irish, as our nursery school children get ready for the move to our new site later this month. Tá muid ar bís!

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Jan 1

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown". And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.” Minnie Louise Haskins

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Dec 31

All of these things have taken their toll on my own well being this year but have also brought out the best in other people who have been keen to show their support.
I’m looking forward to 2025 and I’m very aware that there will be challenges but there will also be great rewards.

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Dec 31

During this time my son was extremely ill and there were many nights without sleep. Added to this was a campaign of misinformation and false accusations directed against my work, a fake letter, and a libellous article, which is presently in the hands of a solicitor.
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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Dec 31

I’m glad to see the back of 2024 as it’s been a difficult one. It was a year when I had to combine my job as manager of the Turas project with finishing the last semester of my degree in Irish and taking over management of our Naíscoil for a few months due to staff illness. 🧵1/3

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Dec 30

A new challenge for the new year - online Irish language total beginners’ class.

Sign up at the link below

turasbelfast.com/event/glanto...

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Scoil na Seolta @scoilnaseolta.bsky.social · Dec 5

Staff, Scoil Board and Naíscoil Committee members attended an inspiring training session about Integrated Education last night.

We’re building a school where children from all cultures, economic means, and of all abilities can be educated together.

Míle buíochas NICIE

Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education training session. Photo shows a room of people listening to a presentation on Integrated Education.

Team building exercise at a Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education training session. Photo shows people’s feet as they stand by different letters of the alphabet which are placed around the floor.

Group work from a Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education training session. The team at Scoil na Seolta reflecting on what we are doing well and what we could do better in terms of equality, social responsibility, faith and values and parental involvement.

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Dec 10

Maith sibh!

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Alan Rodgers @bi99le5.bsky.social · Dec 10

@lindaervine.bsky.social I promised you a photo of the whiteboard in my workshop, still has the drawing my brother did a year ago.

#IYKYK

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Dec 5

TWO PLACE-NAME EVENTS ON THURSDAY 5 DECEMBER

6.30 PM at PRONI the launch of The Townland Atlas of Ulster.

8PM in Room 02/018 of the Peter Froggatt Centre, QUB. Thomas Hughes, will talk on 'Múscailte ag an Ghaeilge,: understanding Belfast’s street names through translation

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Dec 4

One week until our online information evening for parents. Opening on our new site on Montgomery Road in January, Scoil na Seolta is Northern Ireland’s first Integrated School which teaches through the medium of Irish. Find out what Scoil na Seolta can offer your child.

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Dec 2

The same dangerous attitudes exist today, 26 years after the GFA. Those who incite others by the spread of misinformation, by encouraging hatred and intolerance are responsible if their words result in violence. Their hands are not clean.

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Dec 2

Watching Say Nothing and remembering 3 women murdered in the Troubles, Jean Mc Conville, Margaret Wright and Anne-Marie Smyth (there were many more). Murdered by people who believed they were fighting for Ireland or Ulster, extremists who were blinded by bitterness and hate.

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Dec 1

Maith thú a chara!

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Linda Ervine @lindaervine.bsky.social · Nov 26

Some of our beautiful Ulster Scots books on display in our leabharlann. #UlsterScotsWeek

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