The Irish Driver Theory Test – In Gaelic?
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
Tag: Government of Ireland
Irish Republican Jews, A Two-Part Lecture
Yanky Fachler, author and member of the Jewish Historical Society of Ireland, with an interesting two-part lecture on the contribution ofContinue Reading
Opposing Abortion Based On Fact Not On Faith
Over the last three years of writing the Sionnach Fionn blog there have been a number of subjects that have drawn vigorous responsesContinue Reading
Sinn Féin And Right2Water
What is the real attitude of Sinn Féin to the imposition of water charges in Ireland? Are they wholly opposed to them orContinue Reading
No Taxation Without Representation
In recent weeks the right-wing Fine Oibre coalition and much of the equally right-wing press have confidentially asserted that the protestsContinue Reading
Sinister Policing In The Ireland Of Fine Gael And Labour
In November of 2014 the Tánaiste and Labour Party leader, Joan Burton, was greeted by several dozen local residents protesting theContinue 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
Ireland And Catalonia, Some Historic Parallels
In the general election of December 1918 the revolutionary Irish republican and nationalist party, Sinn Féin, took 73 of theContinue Reading
Unprecedented Times In Catalan And Irish Politics
Consumed with matters closer to home I have had little chance to highlight some important political developments in Catalonia, in particular the emergenceContinue 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
It Is No More A Sin To Kill An Irishman Than A Dog
From a quote in an article by the Huffington Post examining the institutionalised discrimination faced by Irish-speaking citizens and communitiesContinue 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
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
Irish Language Rights Are No Rights At All
Coincidental to the temporary silencing of a compliant Irish press by a billionaire businessman whose past dealings have become mired in controversy,Continue Reading
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named
On Thursday the 28th of May the independent TD Catherine Murphy, a recent campaigner against fiscal impropriety and corruption in Irish society, made a contribution to DáilContinue Reading
Fianna Fáil, A Party Without A Cause
My family has been dwelling in Dublin city and its environs since the mid-1800s, part of the mass rural exodusContinue 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
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
Tabhair Dom Do Lámh
As you may have guessed An Sionnach Fionn fully supports the proposed amendment to the definition of marriage as outlined in Article 41 ofContinue Reading
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