Today, Scotland! Tomorrow, The World!
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Heard The One About The Self-Hating Irishman?
From the Mayo News yet more depressing evidence of how no one hates the Irish as much as the Irish themselves: “Gaeltacht communities who call for bilingualContinue Reading
A Native Place
The new Irish language social networking site Abair Leat!, which is primarily aimed at language learners, has been officially launchedContinue Reading
What About Our Irish Rights?
The much heralded Constitutional Convention is finally on the horizon after many a false dawn. According to the Irish Times: “TheContinue Reading
Try Again 2012!
Talking of the Irish language online there is certainly a lot of speculation at the moment about the new websiteContinue Reading
Abair Leat! To Launch On 27th Of February
In December 2011 I wrote about a new online Irish language education network for language learners called “Abair Leat!“. Going throughContinue Reading
Young Fine Gael – The Irony Is In The Name
Over the last year I have catalogued on An Sionnach Fionn the inherent hostility of the right-wing Fine Gael party to the Irish languageContinue Reading
From Irish Ireland To English Ireland
There’s been something of a surprise result from Latvia where a national referendum has rejected moves to make Russian theContinue Reading
Teilifís na Life?
Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, the high-profile Welsh Language Society, is to launch a new web-based television service, initially operating forContinue Reading
Speaking In Two Tongues
Do you know that you live in an officially bilingual Ireland? Believe it or not but the Government of IrelandContinue Reading
Get Your Gael On!
There’s an interesting site with some fun games for Irish language learners at Digital Dialects. The vocabulary seems correct and soContinue Reading
Native Americans – Second Class Americans
There is a disgraceful story of discrimination towards Native American schoolchildren at a local high school in the United States, highlighted byContinue Reading
Guns For Hire – From RIC To RUC
In the 1920s, following the British defeat in Ireland’s War of Independence, many serving members of Britain’ paramilitary police forceContinue Reading
GQ Magazine – Rebellious Scots To Crush!
Crikey, law’ luv-a-duck! The ‘nglish meadja establishment is so bloomin’ terrified of Alex Salmond an’ ‘is SNP stormtroopers that evenContinue Reading
Anne Coulter – Close Encounters Of A Right-wing Kind
I’ve been asked by a couple of readers to offer some commentary on the current contest amongst the Republican PartyContinue Reading
Ivan Yates – No Irish For Your Children. But Plenty Of Irish For Mine!
Scratch a Blueshirt, even an ex-Blueshirt, and it doesn’t take long for the Inner Anglo to come out. Ivan Yates, former FineContinue Reading
Fantasy Troubles Part III – Britain’s Superspies!
Back in December 2011 I addressed the grossly exaggerated issue of the alleged penetration of the (Provisional) Irish Republican Army by BritishContinue Reading
The Sunday Independent Has An Article On Irish History – Which Favours The Irish!
Something truly strange must have happened in the offices of the Sunday Anglo Independent over the last few days. Why?Continue Reading
The North Of Ireland: Roman Catholics 40% Of Population, 61% Of Unemployed
Author and journalist Jude Collins has an article with the Belfast Media Group examining the continued apartheid nature of the British-administered north-east of IrelandContinue Reading
More Parallels Between Québec, Scotland And Beyond
Some more lessons for Scotland and the SNP from the history of the independence movement in Québec? A Reuters report in theContinue Reading
Come Here To Me!
Two great posts from the always interesting Come Here To Me! blog in their Statues of Dublin series: The Phibsborough Volunteer and Constance Markiewicz andContinue Reading
Mebyon Kernow – The Party For Cornwall
Mebyon Kernow, the Party for Cornwall, is currently engaged on a drive to recruit more members and activists following renewed interest in the Cornish nationalist movement.Continue Reading
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