{"id":261625,"date":"2026-01-24T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261625\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:01:07","slug":"six-local-songs-make-shortlist-for-ireland-in-2026-pan-celtic-song-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261625\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Local Songs Make Shortlist for Ireland in 2026 Pan Celtic Song Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six local songs have been included in the shortlist to represent Ireland in this year\u2019s Pan Celtic Song Contest.<\/p>\n<p>The entries, which are all As Gaeilge, have now been whittled down to the final 15.<\/p>\n<p>The live final will be held later tonight (Saturday) at the Visual in the G.B. Shaw Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Gl\u00f3r Cheatharlach\u2019s Emma N\u00ed Bhriain says the entries help improve the use of the Irish language.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of the song contest, it\u2019s incredible to see the number of newly composed songs that came in and were entered into the competition, all through the Irish language, all different styles, all different ages.\u201d she said\/<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it really kind of reaches across a really wide variety of musicians, of songwriters, and I suppose it promotes the language in a fantastic way.\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six local songs have been included in the shortlist to represent Ireland in this year\u2019s Pan Celtic Song&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16665,61,60,43,129453],"class_list":{"0":"post-261625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-carlow","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pan-celtic-song-contest"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}