Native America To Native Ireland, Extermination By Any Other Name
Former libertarian favourite and would-be United States presidential candidate for the Republican Party, Rand Paul, seems to have completed hisContinue Reading
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Restorative Justice For The Celtic Peoples
Returning to the issue of righting old wrongs, what might be described as restorative justice for dispossessed cultures, Paula Young Lee makesContinue Reading
One More Anglophone, One Less Gaelophone
If it’s good enough for native America why not for native Ireland? From an article in the Irish Times: “President BarackContinue Reading
Attitudes Towards The Irish Language On The Island of Ireland 2015
The Economic and Social Research Institute, the well-known independent think-tank, has released a new, one hundred page study titled, “Attitudes towardsContinue Reading
The Irish Language Deniers
In an interesting if factually flawed article the surprisingly authoritarian newspaper columnist Victoria White, the eco-activist wife of the Green Party’s lame duckContinue Reading
Super Colonised Irish Syndrome
In today’s Irish Times newspaper Seaghán Mac an tSionnaigh reviews the latest in a wave of books from a new generation ofContinue Reading
Barbarians At The Gate
One of the more remarkable phenomena of modern Ireland has been the slow deculturation of the Irish people, a process ongoing since theContinue Reading
Killing The Irish
Over the last few weeks I have been receiving unusually frequent and comprehensive PR releases from the Green Party’s press office, sometimesContinue Reading
The Eircode Controversy Or Screwing The Irish In That Other England
Eircode, the controversial, multi-million euro postal code system for Ireland, has been launched by Alex White, the coalition’s minister forContinue Reading
58% Support Welsh Teaching For Children In English-Speaking Schools
ITV News in the UK has a headline-grabbing story on its website: “Exclusive poll: 64% oppose compulsory Welsh to ageContinue Reading
Israel’s Journey From Jewish State To Pariah State
Are there any issues more divisive in “Western” political discourse than the existence, history and policies of the modern nation-state ofContinue Reading
Irish Is Not Dying, Irish Is Being Killed
When the greater part of Ireland won its independence from the United Kingdom in the early 1920s the number ofContinue Reading
JK Rowling, In Defence Of Greater England
Sometimes an individual should simply stick to doing what he or she does best. In the case of the BritishContinue Reading
Don’t Hate The Gays, Hate The Mothers Who Made Them Gay
The recent decision by a majority of voters in Ireland to support the inclusion of marriage-equality in our constitution continues to echo around the world,Continue Reading
The Conspiracy To Impose Homo-Fascism On Ireland
Well away from public scrutiny, is this the nonsense the base of the “No” campaign is comforting itself with inContinue Reading
LGBT Rights In Ireland Cannot Be Partitioned
No doubt most of you are aware that the referendum proposing the addition of a gender-neutral description of marriageContinue Reading
Fathers And Mothers Matter, Respect And Understanding Not So Much
We are in the last week of the referendum campaign debating the addition of a new sub-section to Bunreacht naContinue Reading
Bronze Age Desert Cults Dislike The 21st Century
Well here’s two doubly depressing reports relating to the upcoming constitutional referendum which – if successful – will see aContinue Reading
Did You Hear The One About The Irish Name Spelled With Chinese Letters?
If you and your family are native Irish-speakers and you live in an Irish-speaking region, it seems not unreasonable to expect thatContinue Reading
The Super Scary, Quite Contrary Equal-Marriage Referendum In Ireland
Buzzfeed, the popular American click-bait site which has recently acquired a serious case of the journalistic respectables, has a fairly lengthy articleContinue Reading
The Irish Language Is The Most Dangerous Language Of All The World’s Most Dangerous Languages
It’s not discriminatory – its health and safety! That seems to be the disapproving line taken in this article from Breakingnews.ieContinue Reading
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