Lá Mór na Gaeilge, the rally in support of Irish language rights: 2.00pm, the entrance to the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin, 15.02.2014.
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Lá Mór na Gaeilge, the rally in support of Irish language rights: 2.00pm, the entrance to the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin, 15.02.2014.
AN SIONNACH FIONN 
“Ireland’s number one fan”, Dil Wickremasinghe, said tonight she’ll have piece on her Newstalk radio show on the Irish language next Saturday! 🙂 @
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@Lorcánach, missed it and haven’t had time to have a listen online. Was it any use? Or is it Saturday 22nd?
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míle b. sionnach: satharn seo chughainn 😉 — she said last weekend in reply to text that she would cover Irish as a topic next saturday (22/2/14) — i’d like to think the following (anonymous) text spurred her on:
“Well done, Dil: even on the day of protest in Dublin, never a whisper or a whistle about Irish language rights on your show where it’s less equality, and more diversity in modern Ireland! :*)”
she was very nice about it all — can only guess that the actual text by “Ruth” (not above) was an invention and she read out imagined message — she said that she walked passed groups on way to protest near Newstalk offices — i’d like to think she’s sympathetic but it’s ironic that Gavan Titley (of ‘neo-liberal racism’) is mentioned on her website and am also guessing he is somehow related to Emeritus Professor Alan Titley of UCC
http://www.dilw.ie/global-village
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Ukraine & Immigration/racism in Ireland on @LatedebateRTE @Paschald Peter O’Loughlin, Dr Ronit Lentin & Dr Jean Pierre Eyanga #rteld
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[audio src="http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2014/0220/20140220_rteradio1-thelatedebate-radicalswi_c20530540_20530544_232_.mp3" /]
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Thanks, will listen tonight 🙂
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next weekend now hopefully for dil – text hit the spot! 😉
“Very disappointing, Dil: after last Saturday’s promise of Irish language rights feature on your show – nothing, nada! 😦 ” — from Olga -:)
interestingly she said she covered Irish language as a topic before but more important lgbt issues rightly covered as it’s also in the news @
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I won’t hold my breadth… 😦 Perhaps someone should tell her that LGBT people are Irish-speakers too? And I’m proud to say that a lot of them read and support this blog!
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Phalocentric/ freudian slip there, sionnach – “his blog” 😉 — I’ll ask a friend to tweet herself during the week about that very important point of Irish not being gendered: any lgbt Gaelinne blogs/online links Newstalk’s ‘global village’ researchers should be aware of? The radio talk I think could have serious potential in persuading non-politicos to believe that the Irish language is not exclusive to high-politics, where trans-gender identities and linguistic inclusiveness are important ideals in a modern republic! Míle b., @
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Fixed that. Perils of using a smartphone 😉 Scott de Buitléir springs to mind though he would be on the more conservative Gaeilgeoir wing, activism-wise. I will look up a few people when I get home.
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thanks sionnach: judging from what I heard, it just confirmed groundwork well set by anti-Irish republican academics for ‘debate’ on EU: if 1916 rising were held today An Phiarsaigh would be labelled fascist and national socialist (or perhaps, much like Kiev, dodging bullets last Saturday – snipered in the groin outside Molesworth Street, placard in hand)
Indepenent MEP candidate Peter O’Loughlin was interesting (and Paschal Donoghue agreeing on some points after TCD academic’s scary intervention, frankly); Ronit Lentin is very clever, singing from pro-Palestine/ libertarian socialist hymnal as additional guest:
immigration quotas are racist; discussing immigration as anything other than positive for the Irish economy is dangerous; limiting immigration is fascist (national socialist); and non-citizen immigrants should have (in effect) same employment rights as settled citizens/natives (Jean-Pierre Eyanga, since naturalized, is not allowed to practice as a vet because his primary degree qualification isn’t from an EU/commonwealth state; protectionism inference is racism by another name (expect greater stance on compulsory Irish for state’s teachers as overtly racist)
http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1665-immigration/451848-highly-skilled-immigrants-work-in-low-skilled-jobs
https://mobile.twitter.com/RonitLentin/status/389352966416633856?p=v
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míle b., sionnach – using old smartphone mostly myself and the replies on the blog get smaller text boxes further on – bit of nuisance but manageable! :*) @
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Posting a v angry piece later. Furious.
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