This paper examines the prospects for the establishment of an interdisciplinary language awareness programme at school level in the Republic of Ireland in the light of the extent to which language awareness is ‘in the air’ in Ireland, of references to language awareness in official educational reports and syllabuses, of general cross‐disciplinary collaboration in the languages area, of the presence of linguistics in courses figuring in the initial and in‐service formation. of language teachers, and of Irish‐based research support for the pleading of the language awareness cause.