Irish News, Politics, Culture
With the announcement of this year’s results from the annual Leaving Certificate Examinations, the final examination in Ireland’s secondary school system, the Irish Examiner reports onContinue Reading
Yesterday’s sight of the former British prime ministers, toothsome Tony Blair and dour John Major, proclaiming the United Kingdom of Great Britain the “…mostContinue Reading
Irish Times opinion-writer and occasional poet, Rosita Boland, giving the legacy of colonialism on this island nation a respectable, modern face through the pages ofContinue Reading
Irish is the indigenous language of the island nation of Ireland. Irish is the national and first official language of theContinue Reading
From the “Programme for a Partnership Government“, the recently published agreement underpinning the right-wing minority administration of Fine Gael and various independentContinue Reading
In August of 1915, Patrick H. Pearse, future president and commander-in-chief of the Provisional Government and Army of the IrishContinue Reading
In former times the British-born journalist and occasional Confederate-apologist, Kevin Myers, regularly used his newspaper column to discuss his race theory ofContinue Reading
Sinn Féin has launched its bilingual 2016 election manifesto, to predictable scepticism from the right-wing press, and I’m sure most ofContinue Reading
Following a brief period of relative quiet the haters of Scottish Gaelic are back in full-swing, attacking new education legislationContinue Reading
So, another day, another staged controversy drummed up by anglophone supremacists (for which one can read in this case, British nationalists) attackingContinue Reading
Merryn Somerset Webb is a relatively well-known business journalist and editor in the UK who writes on a wide range of financial matters for theContinue Reading
Irish is the indigenous language of the island nation of Ireland and has held that unique position for at least theContinue Reading
Renua, the right-wing “1% party”, launched its seventy-six page 2016 election manifesto yesterday under the stewardship of its leader, the conservative media darling,Continue Reading
Predictably enough, following the successful intimidation of a small community council in the majority Welsh-speaking village of Cynwyd by English language lobbyists, weContinue Reading
A few days ago I highlighted a story from Wales where an anglophone lobbyist in the village of Cynwyd, a majority Welsh-speaking areaContinue Reading
The small village of Cynwyd in the narrow, oblong county of Denbighshire, in the north-east of Wales, has a population of less than 600 men,Continue Reading
While most eyes and ears were focused on the headline-grabbing announcements in the November budgetary review by the UK’s aristocratic finance minister, George Osborne, moreContinue Reading
The majority of the population of the island of Ireland can only be Irish when the minority of the population who do not regardContinue Reading
The Language Commissioner, Rónán Ó Domhnaill, has offered a carefully worded response to an article published in last week’s Irish Examiner by the eco-conservative journalist VictoriaContinue Reading
In light of the recent ruling by the courts that the Gardaí failed to follow the law by not producingContinue Reading
A couple of days ago I was helping my sister complete her online application form for the driver theory test when we encountered a drop-downContinue Reading
Over the last several months a number of people from Ireland and the Irish diaspora have been barred from the American social networking platform,Continue Reading
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