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The Proposal

Create a dedicated global broadcast network that will connect, entertain, & inform the estimated 70M Irish worldwide

and in the process help preserve Irish culture and promote tourism.

This is a complimentary service and provided at no cost to you.

The Irish diaspora in the United States is in decline!

A report by the UCD Clinton Institute confirms growing concerns about the weakness in the relationship between Ireland and the United States and an increasing distance between the next generation of Irish Americans and their Irish heritage. Traditional Irish organizations are being eroded, leaving many with an aging membership that is not being replenished.

Intervention on a global scale is essential to help prevent the potential loss of cultural identity due to the growing threat of assimilation. Globalization is constant and irreversible, but now, those extraordinary advances in communication which are the backbone of globalization can be used to our advantage.

This proposal will help preserve and promote our cultural heritage on a global scale.

The radio player will provide channels for those genres not commercially viable in Ireland and present them on a more sustainable, commercially viable stage.

Awareness is essential.

It’s important to ensure that Irish communities around the world and those interested in Irish culture not only know about the new service, but that they are also continually reminded of its availability. To connect the diaspora, the first step is to connect organizations that are now in regular communication with their communities. Despite the various purposes of the individual organizations around the globe, each should want to participate because of the obvious benefits to them.

The Hospitality Trade

Wherever you are in the world, you’re never far from an Irish bar & Restaurant.

Today, each location with a website can be transformed into an internet broadcast affiliate with the new service receiving the added benefit of local marketing creating that critical, but more importantly, constant awareness among local communities.

In fact, any entity, print media or local broadcast, apparel, gift, food, travel etc, that targets the Irish diaspora and has a website can become an affiliate to this global network.

And why should they?

Every business or organization has the same issue of awareness, that ability to be remembered by their customers or members when decisions are being made.

The mobile phone, currently considered the most persuasive technological device ever invented, fundamentally determines behavior and provides opportunities for impulse decisions.

Now, more than ever, a business needs to be on customers’ minds.

There is a solution that can help get that done and in a way people will love.

We offer a multi channel player for your website, both desktop and mobile.

Packed with a variety of great entertainment, the player can be branded exclusively with each business/organization's name, display special offers, events etc, and provide multiple opportunities to win quality prizes.
The radio player can be launched on any device creating the potential for far more frequent contact with the business or organization than just a static website. The player offers entertainment and an incentive to stay connected.

We want customers to stay connected not only to the business or organization,
but as a consequence to the service also!

As each entity discovers the provable value offered through branding the radio player for their area, a new network affiliate is created and awareness grows.

Technology makes what was once impossible, possible.

We can connect a global community!

The Radio Player

The radio player will offer a wide variety of entertainment and not just cultural content.

Included are,

TVOI - The Voice of Ireland
Irish - Traditional, Folk, Ballad
Todays Hot Hits - Top 40 (PG)
Classic Rock - Air guitar inspiring.
Classic Hits - Abba to ZZ Top.
Country - The best of today & yesterday.

Additional channels will feature, History and Folklore, Drama, Poetry and Literature, Story Telling and Instruction on learning the Irish language. There are multiple possibilities that can help create what in effect is to be the first global platform of Irish culture

Our aim is to provide a strong contemporary entertainment platform, but in an Irish way.

Globalization continues to impose a significant threat to Irish culture.

Local commercial radio stations must deliver the youth market favored by advertisers in order to ensure their own survival. Combine that with a limited market reach and it becomes impossible to satisfy the maturing and broadening taste of adults.

Traditional terrestrial broadcasters can have either a defined local, regional or national reach and be available online. However, without significant local affiliates around the world to create near constant awareness for any service, availability on the internet is meaningless.

Currently available domestic Irish radio stations do not serve the lives or address the issues of the diaspora, not to mention the difficulties presented by global time zones.

Douglas Hyde, who would become Ireland’s first President, knew, even in 1886, when speaking in particular of the Irish language, that you cannot force implementation on people.

" There is no use arguing the advantage of making Irish the language of our newspapers and clubs because this is and ever shall be an impossibility. But for several reasons we wish to arrest the language of its downward path and if we cannot spread it (and I do not believe we very much can) we will at least prevent it from dying out, and make sure that those who speak it now will also transmit it unmodified to their descendants. "

Douglas Hyde 1886

38 years later, and still long before the introduction of an Irish language broadcast service in Ireland, the threat of globalization to Irish culture and in particular the Irish language was also understood by then secretary at the Department for Posts and Telegraphs, P. S. O’Hegarty when he said in 1924

“If we do not revive and develop Irish, we must inevitably be assimilated and in that case our name and tradition and history will vanish out of human ken* and our national individuality will be lost.“

P. S. O’Hegarty 1924

*Definition 'Ken' : the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge.
Merriam-Webster

And still, 48 years would pass before the introduction of an Irish language broadcast service, Raidió na Gaeltachta in 1972

Into the future

The broadcast day will eventually be live, 24/7, 365 days a year. The service will begin

with listeners in Australia and as the day proceeds, welcome those in Asia, The Middle

East, Europe and finally progressing through the various time zones in the United

States.

Comments are welcome.
We look forward to hearing from you.

Contact

Email: theglobalirish@gmail.com
Phone:
From Ireland
00 1 (646) 952 1727
Within the US
646 952 1727

Please noteThis website is intended for project information and beta testing only and not public use.Thank you.