Doctor Orders Child And Parent Not To Speak In Welsh
From a report by the Daily Post newspaper in Wales: “A hospital has apologised after a doctor asked a mumContinue Reading
Category: Current Affairs
256. Bealtaine
Originally posted on ancroiait:
Bealtaine Bábóg na Bealtaine, maighdean an tSamhraidh, Suas gach cnoc is síos gach gleann, Cailíní maiseacha…
No Investigation Into 1971 British War Crime In Ireland
The government of Britain has announced its refusal to investigate the Ballymurphy Massacre of 1971, a three-day killing spree byContinue Reading
Barack Obama, They All Look Irish To Me
President Barack Obama addressing the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall in University Malaysia, as reported by News StraitsContinue Reading
The Irish Media In Panic Mode
Reading Ireland’s national and regional newspapers the worried expectations of the media establishment that Sinn Féin and various smaller partiesContinue Reading
The Little Englanders Of The American Left
AlterNet, that online bastion of American left-wing liberalism and anti-establishment rhetoric, has an opinion piece on the attendance of SinnContinue Reading
Moderate British Unionism – A Political Oxymoron
Below is a video of Chris McGimpsey, a Unionist former member of Belfast City Council for the UUP and theContinue Reading
The Cornish Win Their Fight For Recognition
Congratulations to the people of Cornwall on the success of their long campaign to win official recognition from the BritishContinue Reading
Fine Oibre Government Faces Electoral Shock And Awe?
So local residents at Togher in Cork and Raheny in Dublin are refusing to allow domestic water meters to be installed inContinue Reading
Putting Catholic Unionists On A Leash
So Tina McKenzie, the European Parliamentary candidate for Ireland’s newest Unionist party, NI21, has been forced to sign a declarationContinue Reading
The Fenian Flame
For decades, or indeed centuries, the British sought to criminalise the Irish Republican cause, to portray Ireland’s revolutionary movements asContinue Reading
NI21 Gets Its Irish On
By all accounts Ireland’s newish British Unionist party, NI1921, is in grave difficulties following a series of internal squabbles overContinue Reading
Corto Maltese, an tEachtránaí Eiseamláireach
Originally posted on Tuairisceoir an Dúin:
Fuair mé amach de thaisme gur tháinig leagan Gaeilge den úrscéal ghrafach úd Una ballata del mar…
Ireland’s English State
Another year, another name-and-shame report from Ireland’s Language Commissioner, the independent ombudsman tasked with overseeing the implementation of the country’sContinue Reading
‘Still Fighting Fire With Fire’ – Joseph Connolly of the Irish Citizen Army.
Originally posted on Come Here To Me!:
Every year, we try and mark Easter Week in some way on the site. This year…
Big Boost In Funding For Scottish Language Broadcasting
Some more good news for the Scottish language (Scottish Gaelic) with the announcement by Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister, thatContinue Reading
Yahoo News And The Murder Advocates
Can someone explain to me how Yahoo News can permit comments by its readers advocating the murder of a well-known political figureContinue Reading
Hysterical history
Originally posted on Wee Ginger Dug:
Rory Stewart’s unionist propaganda thinly disguised as a BBC history documentary has provoked the ire of…
A Tale Of Two Languages
Kate Fennell in the Irish Times examining the Basque Country and the successful struggle for language rights in that IberianContinue Reading
Ireland’s British Rebels
Once again it takes an Irish journalist working in a foreign newspaper to write what the Irish press would neverContinue Reading
Existential Angst From John Waters
John Waters, journalist, newspaper columnist, philosopher-at-large and general man-about-town, has given an angry interview to the Irish Independent complaining aboutContinue Reading
Five Thousand March For Irish Rights In Belfast
Last Saturday up to five thousand people took part in An Lá Dearg i mBéal Feirste, a march through theContinue Reading
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