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''Amárach'' (Irish: ''Tomorrow'') was an
Irish-language Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenou ...
weekly newspaper founded in 1956 by Peadar Ó Ceallaigh (1913–2000), a Donegal native living in Co Meath, who also headed the organization "Muintir na Gaeltachta". The newspaper's subtitle was "Guth na Gaeltachta" (''The voice of the Gaeltacht''), and Amárach aimed to serve the Irish-speaking population of the
Gaeltacht A ( , , ) is a district of Ireland, either individually or collectively, where the Irish government recognises that the Irish language is the predominant vernacular, or language of the home. The districts were first officially recognised ...
areas.''A History of the Irish Working Class'' (with a New Preface) by Peter Berresford Ellis Ó Ceallaigh edited and published the paper, which was printed in Ballyshannon, until May 1977, when it was sold to Comharchumann Chois Fharraige. Thereafter the paper was published and printed in Conamara, until in 1984 it was merged with the Dublin-based Irish-language paper '' Inniú'' to form the weekly newspaper '' Anois''.


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