Irish, A Living Language That Others Are Seeking To Kill
There is no process of natural selection for languages, no evolutionary rule which dictates that one tongue is inevitably suppressed or supplanted by another.Continue Reading
Tag: Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 2003 – Official Languages Act 2003
Big Rise In Students Opting To Take Higher Level Irish Examinations
With the announcement of this year’s results from the annual Leaving Certificate Examinations, the final examination in Ireland’s secondary school system, the Irish Examiner reports onContinue Reading
Language Strategies In Ireland And Wales, Tokenism For The Natives
On the 21st of December 2010 the then coalition government of Fianna Fáil and the Green Party launched the “20-Year Strategy for theContinue Reading
Beyond The Pale. Irish-Speakers In Modern Ireland
How colonised are the Irish? Very colonised? Super colonised? Utterly-and-completely-fucked-up-beyond-all-hope-of-recovery colonised? One might be inclined to chose the latter givenContinue Reading
Anglophone Supremacism: Spurious Arguments, Factual Inaccuracies
The Language Commissioner, Rónán Ó Domhnaill, has offered a carefully worded response to an article published in last week’s Irish Examiner by the eco-conservative journalist VictoriaContinue 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
The Irish Language Is The Most Dangerous Language Of All The World’s Most Dangerous Languages
It’s not discriminatory – its health and safety! That seems to be the disapproving line taken in this article from Breakingnews.ieContinue Reading
The Right To Hate The Second-Class Irish
Another year, another dire record of public services for Irish-speaking citizens and communities by the supposedly bilingual Irish state (noteContinue Reading
Slut-Shaming Irish-Speakers
The so-called “politicised nature” of the Irish language is one of the rhetorical weapons brandished by English language diatribists in Ireland every time ourContinue Reading
The Most Fucked Up Little Country In the World
How do you eliminate institutional discrimination against a minority community when public servants from an apathetic majority community dominate nearly all government departmentsContinue Reading
Ireland’s Apartheid Republic
In response to yesterday’s surprise resignation by the Language Rights Commissioner Seán Ó Cuirreáin, an act of protest against the cultureContinue Reading
Ag Troid Ar Ais
So you think you live in an Ireland of equals? Think again. From Gaelport: “My name is Niamh Ní ChadlaContinue Reading
Shining A Light On Institutional Discrimination?
Following on from the revelations of serious breaches by a significant number of public bodies in relation to their legal obligations underContinue Reading
Institutional Discrimination In The Irish State – The Culture Of An “Anglophone Stormont”
If you’ve been wondering just exactly why the Fine Gael – Labour coalition government seems so utterly determined to scrap the officeContinue Reading
The State Of Irish – In The Irish State
In today’s Irish Times (following on from yesterday’s bizarre anti-Irish rant by Ann Marie Hourihane) Finbar McDonnell examines the Fine Gael-Labour coalition government’s attitudes to it’s IrishContinue Reading
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
The Pettiness Of Casual Discrimination In Ireland
From the Irish Times, a story about a seemingly causal act of unthinking discrimination that actually reveals quiet a lot about the thinking ofContinue Reading
Irish Rights Are Equals Rights – So Fight Back!
Over the last several months I have regularly highlighted the alarm felt by many in Ireland and beyond over the Fine Gael-LabourContinue Reading
Fighting For The Truth
There is a letter in The Irish Times from a host of Irish civil rights campaigners, journalists, businesspeople, academics and student leaders protesting theContinue Reading
Fight The Power!
From Galltacht, the Hidden Ireland blog, Eoin Ó Riain brings the latest news on the campaign to defend the officeContinue Reading
There’s No Éire In Ireland!
Here comes trouble. Many months ago I predicted that Fine Gael in government, in line with its current anti-Irish stance,Continue Reading
A Tale Of Two Irelands
A depressing report in the Irish Times: ‘THE LONG-RUNNING controversy over what to call the popular Co Kerry tourist destination known variouslyContinue Reading
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