Support From New York City For Irish Language Rights In Ireland
Well done to everyone who gathered at the famous Rocky Sullivan’s Pub in Red Hook, Brooklyn, to show their supportContinue Reading
Tag: Anglophone – Béarlóir
Culture Wars In Ireland And Britain
Hot on the heels of my post discussing the urgent need for the reform of public service broadcasting in Ireland comesContinue Reading
Irish TV And Cinema? Some Hope
I was going through my collection of Blu-ray and DVD movies and box-sets over the weekend, not to mention severalContinue Reading
The Ultimate Irish Joke
It’s that time of year again when Ireland’s political establishment trots out its bit of lip-service and tokenism in relationContinue Reading
Let Us Do Evil That Good May Come
Sometimes I wonder if there is an entire generation of Irish historians and writers who are so cocooned inside anContinue Reading
Ireland’s Citizens And Version-Citizens
The Official Languages Act of 2003 is one of the few pieces of legislation in Irish law that guarantees theContinue Reading
No Way To Run A Country
Only on this poor benighted island could a government minister effectively claim with all due seriousness that rising levels ofContinue Reading
The Times They Are A-Changin’
While some have tried to reprimand An Sionnach Fionn and its readers for our assertive contribution in redefining the debateContinue Reading
Irish Rights Are Indigenous Rights?
The biggest deterrent to speaking Irish in Ireland? The hostile or derisory responses it elicits from a handful of chauvinisticContinue Reading
An English Ireland Fears An Irish Ireland
For over two-and-a-half years An Sionnach Fionn has been reporting on the rising levels of public antipathy towards Irish-speaking citizensContinue Reading
Medieval Discrimination In A Modern Ireland
The 14th century Statues of Kilkenny are generally remembered as one of the poorer attempts by the British state inContinue Reading
Ireland’s Supreme Court, Rights Of Irish-Speaking Citizens Are Conditional
Several writers and activists have protested at my recent characterisation of Irish-speakers in Ireland as second-class citizens with second-class rights.Continue Reading
EU? Screw You!
Another day, another confirmation that the Irish-speaking population of this island nation are not only second-class citizens of Ireland butContinue Reading
If You Tolerate This
The Limerick Leader carries an opinion piece by conservative columnist Patricia Feehily that plumbs the noxious depths of Anglophone intolerance asContinue Reading
Ten Thousand March For Irish Language Rights
On Saturday the 15th of February up to ten thousand people took part in Lá Mór na Gaeilge, a demonstrationContinue Reading
Save Our Language!
Lá Mór na Gaeilge, the rally in support of Irish language rights: 2.00pm, the entrance to the Garden of Remembrance,Continue Reading
A Red Day For Irish
More views on Lá Mór na Gaeilge, the demonstration to be held in support of Irish language rights starting atContinue Reading
Celtic Europe, Battling Bigotry From Left And Right
There is an influential theory held by an extremist minority on the Far Left of European politics which opposes aContinue Reading
The Ghettoization Of The Irish Language
That perennial red herring, the manner in which the official national language of the nation-state of Ireland is taught inContinue Reading
The Second-Class Irish
Following his shock resignation from the post of An Coimisinéir Teanga or the Language Commissioner senior civil servant Seán ÓContinue Reading
Galloway To The Gaels – You Are A Nonpeople
George Galloway, the politically promiscuous left-wing face of British nationalism in Scotland, on the identity of those men, women and childrenContinue Reading
A Gaeilgeoir Political Party?
Further to the meeting of representatives from various Irish rights’ organisations on January 11th in Dublin the news and currentContinue Reading
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