Going, Going, Gone
Up to the 1980s the British Labour Party was generally supportive of ending Britain’s centuries-old colonial interference in Ireland by drawingContinue Reading
Tag: Ireland
Festival Interceltique 2014
Sometimes we need reminding that – whatever our origins – we are not just Irish but Celts too, one ofContinue Reading
Underground Warfare
One of the commoner settlement types to be found in Irish archaeology are the ráthanna or so-called ring-forts 40,000 ofContinue Reading
Festival Of Lúgh
It’s a rather overcast and muggy day in BÁC but I’ve still followed my own little traditions for Lúghnasa, theContinue Reading
Coláiste Lurgan, TG Lurgan
The current affairs site breakingnews.ie carries a lengthy article on the well-publicised work of Coláiste Lurgan, an independent Irish language summer school inContinue Reading
Dublin Irish, 4000 Years And Counting
A few years ago a former passive-agressive manager in my job, who made a great point of mispronouncing my surnameContinue Reading
Equal In Any Language
In yesterday’s Guardian newspaper the journalist and political activist Ellie Mae O’Hagan argues that the Welsh language should be partContinue Reading
The Orange Order – Enough Is Enough
From 1975 to 1982 a British terrorist faction nicknamed the “Shankhill Butchers”, part of the militant UVF, carried out aContinue Reading
France Had Pétain, We Nearly Had Redmond
John Redmond is probably one of the more divisive figures in Irish history and rightly so. The patrician head ofContinue Reading
Name The Kincora Abusers
For the first time an allegation long made in private has been stated in public: a senior member of theContinue Reading
The Irish State Versus The Irish Language
More on the controversial decision by the Fine Gael-Labour coalition to appoint two government minsters to departments dealing with Irish-speaking communitiesContinue Reading
Irish-Speakers Lie Down!
If there is a nation anywhere on the planet more ashamed and embarrassed of its own existence, of its veryContinue Reading
Between The Land And The Sea
Regular readers will know of my affection for Bóthar an Choinicéir, a leafy side-road in Fine Gall situated on a narrowContinue Reading
The Calm Before The Storm
The infamous Ku Klux Klan had – and probably still has – burning crosses. The equally infamous Orange Order hasContinue Reading
A Sickness At The Heart Of Britishness
As Britain witnesses the revelations of a decades old culture of institutionalised paedophilia and sexual abuse within the heart ofContinue Reading
Oíche Sheanchais, The First Irish Language Sound Film
From a report by the Galway Advertiser: “The first Irish language ‘talkie’ ever made has premiered at a renowned ItalianContinue Reading
A Colony Cannot Be Reformed
In case you missed it, from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations: “PressContinue Reading
The Irish Government’s Anti-Irishness
The Irish-speaking citizens and communities of Ireland are under attack. They are under attack from a coalition government of two partiesContinue Reading
Foreign Teanga, New Radio Documentary
A quick post to highlight an upcoming radio documentary, “Foreign Teanga”, examining the positive and negative experiences of seven non-nationals living inContinue Reading
The Unionist Caliphate In Ireland
The mainstream British Unionist parties in the north-east of Ireland, the governing DUP and out-of-office UUP, have issued a statementContinue Reading
The Real Subversives In Ireland
The twisted psyche of the ruling elites in Ireland is never plainer to see than when one of them emergesContinue Reading
Tony O’Reilly, Entrepreneur Or Ideologue?
For the last three decades the national press in Ireland has been dominated by the publications of the Independent News & MediaContinue Reading
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