The Endgame For The Anti-Democrats
Excellent opinion piece over on the Irish news-blog Slugger O’Toole from Gerry Lynch, a former Executive Director of the Alliance Party, aContinue Reading
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Indigenous Peoples Fight Back With Hunger Strikes In Canada
A quick post to draw attention to the protests by the indigenous rights organisation “Idle No More” which have swept Canada in recent weeks. They haveContinue Reading
Angloban Ignorance Posing As Informed Commentary
Oh please, someone save me from the half-arsed opinions of right-wing Anglophone buffoons. From Niall O’Dowd’s US-based website Irish CentralContinue Reading
Ipsos MRBI 50th Anniversary Survey – The Irish Language
Very hard to comment on this, since we don’t have the details of the survey, but the Irish Times carriesContinue Reading
Anglophone Propaganda And The British Press
Well that didn’t take long. Barely a week has passed since the right-wing British news media carried a series ofContinue 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
No Irish For The Irish Parliament?
Eoin Ó Riain tackles the latest example of Gaeilgeoir-baiting that has tarnished the pages of the Irish Times, courtesy of journalist Miriam Lord, the newspaper’s political sketch writer. Over theContinue Reading
United In Hatred – Anglophone Fundamentalists In Ireland
Sometimes you’re not paranoid. They really are out to get you. Well, they are if you are an Irish-speaking citizenContinue Reading
Young And Irish – And Opposed To Anglophone Supremacists
President Higgins is currently hosting a series of consultations across the country titled “Being Young and Irish”, and among theContinue Reading
Land Restitution – More News From The Occupied Territories
An excellent article in the Guardian by Dana Lone Hill of the Oglala Lakota Sioux people outlining the campaign byContinue Reading
From Ireland To Scotland – The Colonial Infection
It says much, perhaps, for the power of colonialism that so many inhabitants of so many colonised or formerly colonisedContinue Reading
Dragging Ireland Back To The Middle Ages
Oh please… Jim Allister, that infamous throwback politician from the British Unionist minority in the north-east of Ireland, is kicking off againContinue Reading
The English Republic Of Ireland
More news on the dramatic walk-out from Dáil Éireann by Opposition parties in protest at the Fine Oibre coalition’s attemptContinue Reading
Get Up, Stand Up, Stand Up For Your Rights
For once an Sionnach Fionn is speechless. Someone has actually stood up for the civil rights of Ireland’s Irish-speaking communities andContinue Reading
The Irish Unarmed Struggle
The Journal carries an article on the Irish language from Ian Mac Eochagáin, a professional Russian-English translator. Or more accurately itContinue Reading
A Win For Seán And Síle Citizen
Wow! Logic and reason has been displayed by the Irish civil service in relation to the Irish speaking citizenry of the state. Or did the barrage of national andContinue Reading
Irish National Heritage Park – No Irish?
A great post from the Irish Archaeology blog on a recent visit to the Irish National Heritage Park at CaladhContinue Reading
Kicking The Pale Where It Hurts
Here in Ireland a virulent minority of the population, anglophone supremacists and other Neo-Unionist remnants of the former British colonyContinue Reading
Gaeltacht Bill 2012 – Progress Or Hidden Agenda?
The FG-Lab coalition government has finally produced its long expected Gaeltacht Bill 2012, the most controversial piece of legislation toContinue Reading
Ken Maginnis – Down With This Sort Of Thing
Politicians from the British separatist minority in Ireland never seem to die; they just seem to get crankier with age.Continue Reading
Native Americans – Life As Usual In The Occupied Territories
When I was growing up in Ireland and it came to playing that age old game of “Cowboys and Indians”Continue Reading
Ag Troid Ar Ais
So you think you live in an Ireland of equals? Think again. From Gaelport: “My name is Niamh Ní ChadlaContinue Reading
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