Angloban – The Anglophone Fundamentalists Of Britain And Ireland
We all know that the internet is the mother of all lies. The world wide web of falsehoods. Which isContinue Reading
Tag: English Ireland – An Ghalltacht
Freedom To Talk
If the message hasn’t been driven home that the Irish language and those who speak it are at the topContinue Reading
Fight The Power!
From Galltacht, the Hidden Ireland blog, Eoin Ó Riain brings the latest news on the campaign to defend the officeContinue Reading
Tá An Réabhlóid Ag Teacht!
Inspired by the images emerging from the Occupy movement here are some more adaptations of my own, this time in the styleContinue Reading
Agóid Tobstailce @ Dáil Éireann
Some photos of the student demonstration held outside Dáil Éireann yesterday evening, a couple of hours after the shock government announcement of the abolishment of the officeContinue Reading
Irish Rights Are Civil Rights!
Some more reactions to the announcement today by the Fine Gael-Labour coalition government that the office of An Coimisinéir Teanga, the Language Commissioner,Continue Reading
Second Class Citizens With Second Class Rights
Two weeks ago I predicted that the Fine Gael led coalition government would use a review of the Official Languages Act of 2003 to reverse aContinue Reading
Scary Éire?
In the debate over the relative values of the Irish and English languages in contemporary Ireland one of the argumentsContinue Reading
Ireland – The Mentality Of A Slave
I’ve written before about the power of the Anglophone community in Ireland and no better case proves that point than theContinue Reading
Not One Small Victory But Three
Some days it is nice to be reminded that the Gaelic languages are not just national languages, but internationalContinue Reading
Fine Gael, “No Irish Here!” – A Flashback From 1938
The wonderful Irish Election Literature blog does it again with this Fine Gael election poster from 1938 protesting against “Migrants”Continue Reading
RTÉ Versus TG4
Ireland’s Anglophone media establishment has never been comfortable with the Irish language. Or indeed Irish speakers. The existence of bothContinue Reading
Anyone For Some Apartheid? Anglo-Irish Style!
Yesterday’s Irish Independent featured a letter pleading for support from readers for a new campaign to remove obligatory Irish language teachingContinue Reading
English Ireland. A Nation Without A Soul?
Wonderful article in the Irish Times by Lucille Redmond on language and identity. “According to linguist Mark Abley, a language dies everyContinue Reading
Language Rights Are Civil Rights
Seán Ó Cuirreáin, An Coimisinéir Teanga or the Irish Language Commissioner, is the person tasked with ensuring that our publicContinue Reading
DotAlba
I talked some time ago about the campaign in Scotland to register a new internet domain name for the GaelicContinue Reading
Fáilte!
The Irish Times carries an article on an issue that I, and many others, have been shouting from the rooftops for manyContinue Reading
Galway – The Bilingual Capital Of Ireland
A new campaign to secure official bilingual status for Galway City, with all the benefits in tourism and commerce thatContinue Reading
Irish Language Television – Innovative, Dynamic, Irish…
Irish language television seems to be providing the most dynamic programming in Ireland these days, with the output from independentContinue Reading
Settler Versus Native – Culture Wars In The North Of Ireland
Thanks to Daithí for drawing my attention to this latest bit of nonsense from TUV leader Jim Allister, as heContinue Reading
Sitting At The Back Of The Bus – But Not For Much Longer…
The Irish language on TV3? Well not quiet. Ever since TV3 snatched away the exclusive broadcast rights to the GAA’sContinue Reading
Welcome To An Irish Ireland?
In Ireland we have the insane situation where a nation with its own native language has named the features ofContinue Reading
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