Sinn Féin’s Bluff And Bluster On Irish Rights
Sinn Féin, and to a lesser extent the SDLP, are still throwing all sorts of shapes in the regional assemblyContinue Reading
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America Has The Tea Party, Ireland Has The DUP Party
Gregory Campbell is one of the better known members of the DUP in Ireland, the once fringe British Unionist party which has dominated one halfContinue Reading
The Acceptable Form Of Racism In Ireland
Do Irish-speaking communities and citizens in Ireland enjoy full equality with their English-speaking peers when it comes to the institutionsContinue Reading
No Value In Welsh For Tory’s English Candidate
Over the last few decades our Celtic neighbours in Wales have seen the emergence of something approaching a national consensusContinue Reading
Ireland Of The Apes
Are we really so enslaved to our post-colonial neuroses, so malformed by centuries of external domination, that even after ninety years ofContinue Reading
The Problem With Irish? Not Enough Politics!
There is a great article over on Diaga on the importance of persecuted communities with distinct languages and cultures achievingContinue Reading
The Embarrassment Of Being Irish
So after eighteen years of an online presence our self-proclaimed “national public service broadcaster”, RTÉ, has finally got around toContinue Reading
Australia’s Shame
Native Australians make up just 2% of Australia’s population but form an incredible 26% of the national prison population, risingContinue Reading
The Irrational Nature Of The Anti-Irish Bigots
Have some indigenous Gaelic moles crept into the hallowed Hibernophobe halls of Independent House, publishers of the Indo stable of newspapers? A coupleContinue Reading
Irish-Medium Education Overcoming The Odds
Over the last decade the devolved government in Wales, with near cross-party unanimity, has used its growing powers over educationContinue Reading
No Speak The Irish!
As if the precarious position of Irish-speaking citizens and communities in Ireland was not difficult enough living under the authorityContinue Reading
A Department Of Irish And Irish-Speaking Communities
A great article over on Diaga Language which relates to my own piece yesterday on the lack of state-subsidised andContinue Reading
Irish Ways And Irish Laws
It seems that even the most reactionary dung-hill can produce the odd progressive rose. Here is Clare Cullen in theContinue Reading
Better Together Star: Catholics Look Better Hanging From A Tree
The British Unionist parties heading the “Better Together” or No (surrender?) campaign in Scotland’s upcoming referendum on independence seem toContinue Reading
Fingal Irish
I’ve discussed before the truly excellent blog Dublin Gaelic which discusses the history of the Irish language in theContinue Reading
No Time For Irish – Government Policy In Ireland
A few weeks ago the appointment of two ministers by the government of Ireland with responsibilities directly effecting the interestsContinue Reading
Hold Your Tongue
Karen Matheson, the lead vocalist with the popular Scottish folk band Capercaillie, recounts something that was once very familiar to speakersContinue Reading
Festival Interceltique 2014
Sometimes we need reminding that – whatever our origins – we are not just Irish but Celts too, one ofContinue Reading
Coláiste Lurgan, TG Lurgan
The current affairs site breakingnews.ie carries a lengthy article on the well-publicised work of Coláiste Lurgan, an independent Irish language summer school inContinue Reading
Equal In Any Language
In yesterday’s Guardian newspaper the journalist and political activist Ellie Mae O’Hagan argues that the Welsh language should be partContinue Reading
The Irish State Versus The Irish Language
More on the controversial decision by the Fine Gael-Labour coalition to appoint two government minsters to departments dealing with Irish-speaking communitiesContinue Reading
Irish-Speakers Lie Down!
If there is a nation anywhere on the planet more ashamed and embarrassed of its own existence, of its veryContinue Reading
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