Playing The Race Card In Ireland
Poor old Kevin Myers is at it again: propagating his “race theory” of Irish politics (and society) thanks to theContinue Reading
Category: The Irish Language – An Ghaeilge
RTÉ Versus TG4
Ireland’s Anglophone media establishment has never been comfortable with the Irish language. Or indeed Irish speakers. The existence of bothContinue Reading
Anyone For Some Apartheid? Anglo-Irish Style!
Yesterday’s Irish Independent featured a letter pleading for support from readers for a new campaign to remove obligatory Irish language teachingContinue Reading
Language Rights Are Civil Rights
Seán Ó Cuirreáin, An Coimisinéir Teanga or the Irish Language Commissioner, is the person tasked with ensuring that our publicContinue Reading
Irish Language Publishing – A Success Story
If one wants to hear “good news” stories about the Irish language, or something positive about Irish speakers, it isContinue Reading
Robin Swann Of The UUP – No Irish Wanted Here!
Here is a wearily familiar report from the Associated Press on the recent Líofa 2015 initiative launched by the minister of cultureContinue Reading
BBC Alba’s Audience Soars By 100,000 Viewers In Just Three Months
Since its launch in 2008 the Scottish language television channel, BBC Alba, has spent most of its time relegated toContinue Reading
Galway – The Bilingual Capital Of Ireland
A new campaign to secure official bilingual status for Galway City, with all the benefits in tourism and commerce thatContinue Reading
Irish Language Television – Innovative, Dynamic, Irish…
Irish language television seems to be providing the most dynamic programming in Ireland these days, with the output from independentContinue Reading
Sinn Féin And The Irish Language – A Strategy For Confusion
John O’Dowd, the Sinn Féin minister for education in the Northern Executive, has refused permission for Irish medium nursery units toContinue Reading
A Shared Future For All Of Ireland?
Following on from my earlier post about Jim Allister’s hostile reaction to the launch of Líofa 2015, a new Irish language initiative in the North ofContinue Reading
Sitting At The Back Of The Bus – But Not For Much Longer…
The Irish language on TV3? Well not quiet. Ever since TV3 snatched away the exclusive broadcast rights to the GAA’sContinue Reading
Scottish – A Modern Language For A Modern Nation
In the Scotsman newspaper John Campbell challenges the Scottish Government to build on the high level of acceptance and supportContinue Reading
Welcome To An Irish Ireland?
In Ireland we have the insane situation where a nation with its own native language has named the features ofContinue Reading
The Irish And Scottish Languages – A Union Of Hearts And Minds
For all you fellow Gaelic Republicans out there, some more good news, this time via the Belfast Telegraph: ‘A culturalContinue Reading
Alba – The Early Days Of A Better Nation
I have written many times before about the exceptional resurgence in Scotland of the Scottish language, especially amongst young Scots and urban dwellers, from a period when indifferenceContinue Reading
The Ó Muircheartaigh For President?
Well the speculation is continuing to gather as to whether or not the much-loved TV sports broadcaster and Irish rights activist MicheálContinue Reading
Celtic Nationalism: Six Nations, One Soul
Some good news for all Celtic Nationalists. Carn, the regular news, current affairs and culture magazine of the Celtic League is now online, withContinue Reading
Forget David Starkey – Lets Talk About The Daily Mail And ‘Monkey Language’
As Britain England deals with the outcry over professor David Starkey’s controversial comments on the days of civil unrest thatContinue Reading
The rise and fall of the Knights Templar in Ireland. (via Irish History Podcast)
The great and informative Irish History Podcast carries a piece on the Knights Templar in Ireland… When we think ofContinue Reading
In Praise Of The Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin
Journalist Fionntán Ó Tuathail Fintan O’Toole writes a lengthy piece celebrating the award-winning architecture of the Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin in Doire (Derry), theContinue Reading
The United Gaels
For those of us who realise that our Irish identity goes beyond the island of Ireland and embraces our fellowContinue Reading
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