''Amárach'' (Irish: ''Tomorrow'') was an
Irish-language
Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was th ...
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
( , , ) are the districts of Ireland, individually or collectively, where the Irish government recognises that the Irish language is the predominant vernacular, or language of the home.
The ''Gaeltacht'' districts were first officially recog ...
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
''Anois'' (Irish: ''Now'') was an Irish-language weekly newspaper, published in Dublin, Ireland, by Gael Linn from September 1984 until June 1996.Koch, John Thomas. ''Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia''. ABC-CLIO, 2006. , . p76 It was th ...
''.
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1984 disestablishments in Ireland
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