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
Tag: Anglophone Supremacism
The Donald Trump Defenders Find Their Irish Champion
There is a certain satisfaction to be derived from having one’s opinions – or prejudices – confirmed and that is certainlyContinue 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
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
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
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
#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
Doctor Orders Child And Parent Not To Speak In Welsh
From a report by the Daily Post newspaper in Wales: “A hospital has apologised after a doctor asked a mumContinue Reading
Saving The Language Commissioner
It’s been a hard struggle, and a long one, but the Fine Gael-Labour coalition government has finally succumbed to publicContinue Reading
Ireland, The Dysfunctional Poster-Child Of Minority Rights
The Hidden Ireland blog has a short post listing a number of motions on the Irish language from this year’sContinue 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
The Racist Republic Of Ireland
Ah, ‘tis good to see that Anglophone racism continues to thrive in contemporary Ireland. Where would we be without ourContinue Reading
Shooting Down Gaelic
A news report from Scotland on the alleged vandalism of a bilingual Scottish and English language road sign that oneContinue Reading
Anglophone Supremacists Don’t Just Hate Irish – They Hate Those Who Speak Irish
“Irish language schools targeted over restrictive entrance rules” So screams the headline in today’s Anti-Irish Independent newspaper. In the follow-up article we are told that:Continue Reading
The Culture War In Wales Hots Up
The nationalistic press in Britain is currently lathering itself up into paroxysms of anglophone outrage over alleged “discrimination” against English-speaking children attending schoolsContinue Reading
Speak Welsh? Get Out!
Imagine moving to France or Germany, taking over the management of a local bar, and then demanding that all theContinue Reading
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