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
Tag: Dublin
Fingal Irish
I’ve discussed before the truly excellent blog Dublin Gaelic which discusses the history of the Irish language in theContinue Reading
Dublin Irish, 4000 Years And Counting
A few years ago a former passive-agressive manager in my job, who made a great point of mispronouncing my surnameContinue Reading
Between The Land And The Sea
Regular readers will know of my affection for Bóthar an Choinicéir, a leafy side-road in Fine Gall situated on a narrowContinue Reading
The Irish Government’s Anti-Irishness
The Irish-speaking citizens and communities of Ireland are under attack. They are under attack from a coalition government of two partiesContinue Reading
Foreign Teanga, New Radio Documentary
A quick post to highlight an upcoming radio documentary, “Foreign Teanga”, examining the positive and negative experiences of seven non-nationals living inContinue Reading
The Logainm Relaunch
A quick (if late) post on the Placenames Database of Ireland or Logainm, a comprehensive topographical index of our island nationContinue Reading
Threats
I’ve been left a short, single-line Comment underneath one of my blog posts which linked to a 2012 article by the UniversityContinue Reading
The Big Bang Theory
Like lambs to the slaughter Seán and Síle Citizen trots forward eager to taste the sweet green grass of domestic recovery,Continue Reading
First Preference Votes In The 2014 Local Elections Are Mapped
The newish website Irish Political Maps has a list up displaying the percentage of first preference votes for parties in theContinue Reading
Joan Burton, A Bridge Too Far
If there is an Irish government minister more disliked by Seán and Síle Citizen than Joan Burton you’d be hardContinue Reading
The All-Ireland Percentage Vote For The European Parliament 2014
Thought I’d show some of the figures for the All-Ireland vote for the European Parliament being discussed on the blogContinue Reading
Expediency Is No Substitute For Commitment
From a profile in today’s Irish Times on Lynn Boylan, formerly Lynn Ní Bhaoighealláin , the Sinn Féin candidate inContinue Reading
ASF – The European And Local Elections
Several readers of An Sionnach Fionn have asked me how I intend to vote in the upcoming European and local elections. Though some people might objectContinue Reading
Political Shenanigans
Enda Kenny, Taoiseach na hÉireann, on the importance of water conservation and the dilemma faced by tens of thousands ofContinue Reading
The Legacy Of Brian Bóroimhe
2014 marks a thousand years since Cath Chluain Tarbh or the Battle of Clontarf so a quick post to highlight some fantasticContinue Reading
Barack Obama, They All Look Irish To Me
President Barack Obama addressing the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall in University Malaysia, as reported by News StraitsContinue Reading
The Irish Media In Panic Mode
Reading Ireland’s national and regional newspapers the worried expectations of the media establishment that Sinn Féin and various smaller partiesContinue Reading
No Aboriginal Culture In Trinity College, Please!
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy GBE CVO, the late 19th and early 20th century Anglo-Irish classicist, was one of the mostContinue Reading
The Mafiaization Of Ireland
Every journalist in the world is influenced one way or another by his or her personal beliefs and values. SimpleContinue Reading
Putting The Irish Into Irish Shops
Up to a few years ago my local branch of Tescos, the British retail giant that expanded into the IrishContinue 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
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