Changing How We Teach Irish In Our Schools
I have some sympathy with those who argue that the teaching of Irish in our primary and secondary schools shouldContinue Reading
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Scottish Gaelic Is Not Dying, It Is Being Killed
There is a typically dire, fact-free article on the Scottish language (Scottish Gaelic) in today’s Herald newspaper, penned by theContinue Reading
Nelson McCausland And The Conspiracy To Decolonise Ireland
Nelson McCausland, the former MLA with the Democratic Unionist Party, has taken to the pages of the pro-union Belfast TelegraphContinue Reading
Whether Irish Rights Or Gay Rights, No Equality, No Stormont.
Thanks to the Trojan work of the veteran journalists Eamonn Mallie and Brian Rowan, we now know the sequence ofContinue Reading
When It Comes To Irish Equality, The DUP Is The Putrid Little Statelet
To her many critics, this afternoon’s statement by Arlene Foster provided further proof of her failings as a political leader,Continue Reading
President Michael D Higgins Did Not Say That Compulsory Irish Is A Mistake
Yet again, don’t believe everything that you read in the press. Or at least, what you might read in Ireland’sContinue Reading
The Legacy of Ada Lovelace
A guest post by Gráinne Shannon, a well-travelled senior software programmer, writer and poet. Her day job inspired the award-nominated Orla’sContinue Reading
Seven English Language TV Channels In Ireland Vs. The Lone Irish Language Channel
At the present moment in time, there are two national television networks broadcasting in the English language across Ireland. TheirContinue Reading
The BBC And The Welsh Language, Self-Interested Discrimination
Several readers, including Marconatrix, have drawn my attention to this discussion about Welsh language rights broadcast on Newsnight, the BBC’sContinue Reading
The Unionist Argument Against The Irish Language Is A Colonial One
At the weekend I was interviewed by a metropolitan American journalist doing some background research into Brexit and the possibleContinue Reading
Welsh Medium Educated Is Boosted While Irish Medium Education Is Blocked
The percentage of children educated through the medium of the Irish language in primary schools across Ireland, excluding the SixContinue Reading
Arlene Foster’s Letter Concerning Irish Gay Couples Marrying In Scotland
Talking of the Democratic Unionist Party, in the immediate aftermath of the general election in the United Kingdom, Marco Biagi,Continue Reading
The Gaelic Gestapo. Shaping The Language Of Hate In Scotland
To name a thing is to control a thing. Words have a power beyond the immediate and obvious. The processContinue Reading
The Real Cost Of Irish Language Act In The North Would Be £2 Million A Year
Conradh na Gaeilge, the prestigious Irish language advocacy organisation, has released a series of legislative proposals it believes will bring greater linguisticContinue Reading
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
From America To Ireland, Appeasement Has Become The Answer To Racism
One of the more repugnant individuals employed in the editorial team of the Donald Trump fanzine, Breitbart News, is the reporter Katie McHugh.Continue Reading
Northern Ireland, The Sectarian And Racist Squalor Of Britain’s Last Colony
Anna Lo, the Chinese-Irish president of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI), a liberal unionist grouping in the north-east ofContinue 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
The #Gaelexit Campaign Turns Anglophone Victimiser Into Anglophone Victim
So the online current affairs website, The Journal, has published yet another opinion piece on the Irish language and theContinue Reading
Irish, A Living Language That Others Are Seeking To Kill
There is no process of natural selection for languages, no evolutionary rule which dictates that one tongue is inevitably suppressed or supplanted by another.Continue 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
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