A’ Seinn An Aghaidh Na Balbhachd
A quick thank you to regular contributor Marconatrix for an email reminder of this 2012 video-documentary from Michael Newton, A’ Seinn an aghaidh na BalbhachdContinue Reading
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Attitudes Towards The Irish Language On The Island of Ireland 2015
The Economic and Social Research Institute, the well-known independent think-tank, has released a new, one hundred page study titled, “Attitudes towardsContinue Reading
Killing The Irish
Over the last few weeks I have been receiving unusually frequent and comprehensive PR releases from the Green Party’s press office, sometimesContinue Reading
58% Support Welsh Teaching For Children In English-Speaking Schools
ITV News in the UK has a headline-grabbing story on its website: “Exclusive poll: 64% oppose compulsory Welsh to ageContinue Reading
Irish Is Not Dying, Irish Is Being Killed
When the greater part of Ireland won its independence from the United Kingdom in the early 1920s the number ofContinue Reading
Did You Hear The One About The Irish Name Spelled With Chinese Letters?
If you and your family are native Irish-speakers and you live in an Irish-speaking region, it seems not unreasonable to expect thatContinue Reading
Putting The Éire In Ireland
For the last four or five years of An Sionnach Fionn I have been promoting the potential benefits of “language tourism” forContinue Reading
Tiocfaidh Ár Phéig!
Author Sara Baume writing in the Irish Times: “There are plenty of arguments against the inclusion of Sayers inContinue Reading
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Celtic Cosmology, Perspectives from Ireland and Scotland
Over the last two decades relatively few studies have been published analysing the cosmological traditions of the Celtic-speaking peoples, atContinue Reading
25000 Protest Galician Language Rights
A short post to note last Sunday’s demonstration in Santiago de Compostela, the capital of the Iberian region of Galicia,Continue Reading
The United Languages Of Europe
Contrast and compare these stories from Scotland on the Scottish (Gaelic) language. First up, from the Courier: “Ambitious plans toContinue Reading
Translation Fail
Cautioning on the perils of machine translation, especially when expectations surpass achievable results, Michael Bauer on his Dear Developer blog posts a letter he has written toContinue Reading
Je Suis Gael
In 1981 the “reverend” Ian Paisley MP MEP, founder and chief of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, the DemocraticContinue Reading
An Online Fenian Archive From ASF
I’ve discussed my interest in utilising online resources for researching various historical topics a number of times on ASF, as can be seenContinue Reading
Three Irish Tales
As Sinn Féin accuses the lacklustre Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition of abandoning key government demands during the recent talks betweenContinue Reading
The Gaelic Union
A new website to strengthen ties between Gaelic-speaking communities in Ireland and Scotland, as well as encouraging cultural tourism byContinue Reading
Scottish Gaelic And Glasgow University
The University of Glasgow or Oilthigh Ghlaschu is celebrating its historic links with the Scottish-speaking communities of Scotland thanks to aContinue Reading
Irish Belongs To Everyone On This Island Nation
An alternative view on the Irish language and Irish-speakers in modern Ireland from the viewpoint of a member ofContinue Reading
Chronology of Irish History 1919–1923
Over the last year I’ve been contacted by a few people enquiring if I knew anything about the disappearance of the web-basedContinue Reading
iGaeilge
In response to some comments yesterday I thought this business report from the BBC on the preference-through-necessity in Irish mediumContinue Reading
Ambivalent Language Masks Intolerance
In light of two recent posts, “The Acceptable Form Of Racism In Ireland” and “Sinn Féin’s Bluff And Bluster On IrishContinue Reading
Sinn Féin’s Bluff And Bluster On Irish Rights
Sinn Féin, and to a lesser extent the SDLP, are still throwing all sorts of shapes in the regional assemblyContinue Reading
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