Welsh Medium Educated Is Boosted While Irish Medium Education Is Blocked
The percentage of children educated through the medium of the Irish language in primary schools across Ireland, excluding the SixContinue Reading
Tag: Anglophone – Béarlóir
The Irish Language Finds A Cold Home In The Irish Parliament And State
While we are certainly right to decry the inherent hibernophobia of mainstream political unionism in Ireland, not to mention the UnitedContinue Reading
The DUP Vows To Skin The Irish Crocodiles And Turn Them Into Union Jack Handbags
Talking of colonial supremacists, here is Arlene Foster, the beleaguered leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and her latest contributionContinue Reading
An Bhfuil Tú Dáiríre? A Documentary Challenging Anti-Irish Sentiment In Ireland
Back in October of last year I examined a short documentary by the freelance journalist Eoin Butler attacking the position of the IrishContinue Reading
Political Unionism’s “Curry My Yogurt” Mentality
A short guest post by Mark Petticrew, a twenty-two year old politics’ student at the University Of Ulster Jordanstown, examiningContinue Reading
When It Comes To The Irish Language Saoradh Looks to Éirígí For Inspiration
Saoradh, the self-styled “Revolutionary Irish Republican Party”, has published the organisation’s constitution on its Facebook Page (though not on itsContinue Reading
The Othering Of The Irish Language And Those Who Speak It
Ursula Ní Shabhaois, writing on her blog “Ag Smaoineamh Os Ard“, reiterates a point that many choose to overlook: the linguistic andContinue Reading
The #Gaelexit Campaign Turns Anglophone Victimiser Into Anglophone Victim
So the online current affairs website, The Journal, has published yet another opinion piece on the Irish language and theContinue Reading
Anti-Irish Prejudice In Ireland Cannot Be Reasoned With. It Can Only Be Defeated
Over the last two decades the linguistic denigration of hibernophone sports teams and their fans by anglophone opponents has become one of the odder aspects of lifeContinue Reading
You Cannot Hate Irish Without Hating Those Who Speak Irish
If you speak Irish in Ireland, and your children speak and are educated through Irish in Ireland, does this make you an ideological opponent ofContinue Reading
Beating The English Language Into The Irish, Quite Literally
Following on from reports that an Irish-speaking employee was forced from his job at a business in Cork because of management demands thatContinue Reading
Fired For Speaking Irish In Ireland’s English Only Pub
So in the space of three years we’ve gone from Irish-speaking citizens being arrested by the Gardaí for conversing in Irish to Irish-speakingContinue Reading
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
But What’s Your Name In English?
Thomas Sutherland writing on the South African digital current affairs platform, News24: “Last night, a friend and I walked into a bar in PortContinue Reading
DUP Favours British Beer-Swilling Thugs Before Irish Special Needs Children
In April of this year, Arlene Foster, the belligerent leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the majority pro-UK partner in 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
Government Rejects Secular Irish-Medium School Despite Record Popularity
According to the all-party “20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010-2030”, one of the most purposefully underfunded policies in theContinue Reading
#IrishSpeakersMatter
Irish Times opinion-writer and occasional poet, Rosita Boland, giving the legacy of colonialism on this island nation a respectable, modern face through the pages ofContinue Reading
School Teaching Through Irish To Be Housed – And It Only Took 22 Years
Irish is the indigenous language of the island nation of Ireland. Irish is the national and first official language of theContinue Reading
The 20 Year Strategy For The Irish Language, Year 6
From the “Programme for a Partnership Government“, the recently published agreement underpinning the right-wing minority administration of Fine Gael and various independentContinue Reading
Not Merely Free But Gaelic 1916-2016
In August of 1915, Patrick H. Pearse, future president and commander-in-chief of the Provisional Government and Army of the IrishContinue Reading
Sinn Féin’s Manifesto Promises On Irish Rights
Sinn Féin has launched its bilingual 2016 election manifesto, to predictable scepticism from the right-wing press, and I’m sure most ofContinue Reading
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