A gaelscoil (Plural: gaelscoileanna) is an Irish-speaking school, often also co-educational, usually found in Ireland, but outside the predominantly Irish-speaking Gaeltacht areas. Irish is the working language for these schools. Almost 10% of the schooling population in the Republic of Ireland attend Irish-medium schools. Overview The Gaelscoil movement has been the biggest and most successful of any of the European, lesser-used languages immersion education programmes. The movement has also b… (More on Gaelscoil) |