Gael Linn was founded in 1953 and has been known since then as an entrepreneurial organisation. The main aim of the organisation is to foster and promote the Irish language and its heritage throughout Ireland as a living language and as an expression of identity at policy and at community level.

It is well known for the enterprises it founded in Gaeltacht areas. Gael Linn continues to implement its entrepreneurial philosophy through the broad range of activites and projects which it engages in from year to year. The Gael Linn programme can be divided into three broad categories; education, language promotional schemes and business.