Geantraí

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| location = Baile na hAbhann, Galway

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| country = Republic of Ireland

| language = Irish

| network = TG4

| first_aired = {{Start date|1996}}

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Geantraí ({{IPA|ga|ˈɟan̪ˠt̪ˠɾˠiː}}) is an Irish television programme, presenting Irish traditional music.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UwiWDwAAQBAJ&q=Geantra%C3%AD+tg4&pg=PT170|title=Will We Be Brilliant or What?: Songs & Stories|first=John|last=Spillane|date=1 September 2016|publisher=Gill & Macmillan Ltd|isbn=9781848896093|via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.irishsong.com/news/padraigin-sings-on-tg4s-flagship-geantrai-programme/|title=Pádraigín sings on TG4's flagship Geantraí programme|date=1 March 2013}}{{Cite web|title=Newspaper Archive|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1996/1111/Pg022.html#Ar02208:1746A31C36B9|access-date=June 5, 2021|website=www.irishtimes.com}}{{subscription required}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/quality-home-output-is-new-tg4-priority-1.224525|title='Quality home output' is new TG4 priority|first=Pol O.|last=Muiri|newspaper=The Irish Times}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.orderinthesound.com/hosting-tg4s-geantrai-programme|title=Hosting TG4's Geantraí programme|date=2 March 2011|website=order in the sound}}

The name derives from Geantraí, one of the three types of Irish music enumerated in the "three noble strains"; geantraí (joy music), suantraí (lullaby) and goltraí (sorrow music).{{Cite web|url=https://journalofmusic.com/focus/geantrai-goltrai-suantrai|title=Geantraí, Goltraí, Suantraí|website=The Journal of Music: News, Reviews & Opinion | Music Jobs & Opportunities}} In Old Irish, they were spelled geantraige, suantraige, goltraige.{{Cite web|url=http://www.earlygaelicharp.info/Irish_Terms/56.htm|title=Geantraighe, Goltraighe & Suantraighe - Love, Exciting sorrow, Soothing|website=www.earlygaelicharp.info}}{{Cite web|url=https://stairnaheireann.net/2017/12/10/celtic-mythology-the-three-noble-strains-2/|title=Celtic Mythology: The Three Noble Strains|first=Stair na|last=hÉireann|date=10 December 2017|website=Stair na hÉireann/History of Ireland}}{{Cite web|url=https://journalofmusic.com/radar/new-series-geantrai-starts-tg4|title=New Series of Geantraí Starts on TG4|website=The Journal of Music: News, Reviews & Opinion | Music Jobs & Opportunities}}

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