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Stiofán Ó Fearail was a teacher in the Coláiste Lurgan programme and was lead vocalist for the hit. The song has garnered over 8.2 million views by March 2023 on TG Lurgan's YouTube channel. [2] "Wake Me Up" in Irish earned TG Lurgan a live appearance on the popular RTÉ Irish talk show programme The Late Late Show. [3]
The band rose to prominence after meeting in Coláiste Lurgan in the Conamara Gaeltacht of County Galway, where they worked for years on establishing the TG Lurgan YouTube channel. Since the release of their 2013 cover video of Avicii 's 'Wake Me Up' both the TG Lurgan channel and the newly formed Seo Linn started to make waves.
A cover of the song in Irish was uploaded onto YouTube on 9 August 2013, by TG Lurgan, a music project by Irish-language summer college Coláiste Lurgan. The video received heavy publicity and popularity within Ireland from many news websites and the public.
Coláiste Lurgan is an independent summer school that runs three-week Irish-language immersion courses in the Connemara Gaeltacht village of Inverin in County Galway. [1]As part of their student-directed focus in language teaching, the school runs TG Lurgan, an initiative for helping students to acquire vocabulary by producing covers of popular music. [2]
Recently, the Coláiste Lurgan, a language immersion summer college located at Inverin, has won worldwide acclaim for their Irish language covers of pop songs,including Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, Adele's Hello, and Avicii's Wake Me Up, on the TG Lurgan YouTube channel. The band Seo Linn is composed of musicians who met at the college
Trasna na dTonnta" (Irish pronunciation: [ˈt̪ˠɾˠasˠn̪ˠə n̪ˠə ˈd̪ˠɔn̪ˠt̪ˠə]; "Across the Waves") is a traditional Irish song often taught to primary school children. It has the same tune as the 20th century Scottish song " Westering Home ".
The college formed on 1 September 2015 when the three single-sex schools in Lurgan combined: St Paul’s Junior High School, St Mary’s High School and St Michael’s Grammar School. The college initially operated on three sites but in 2021 work began on a new single building on a 36-acre site at Cornakinnegar Road.
Inverin (Irish: Indreabhán, meaning "mouth of the river") [1] [2] is a Gaeltacht village between Baile na hAbhann and Minna in County Galway, Ireland.There are Irish-language summer colleges in the area, most notably Coláiste Lurgan and Coláiste Uí Chadhain.