Saving The Language Commissioner
It’s been a hard struggle, and a long one, but the Fine Gael-Labour coalition government has finally succumbed to publicContinue Reading
Tag: Ireland
No Aboriginal Culture In Trinity College, Please!
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy GBE CVO, the late 19th and early 20th century Anglo-Irish classicist, was one of the mostContinue Reading
Britain’s Very Own Own Crimea In Ireland
Military jeeps driven by masked men wearing combat fatigues drive through the darkened streets of a city while hysterical crowdsContinue Reading
Gabriel Rosenstock, Margadh Na Míol In Valparaíso
Would I be right in suggesting that Gabriel Rosenstock and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill are probably the two greatest living IrishContinue Reading
Time For Truth, An Fhírinne Anois
With thanks to the Mirror, a powerful video from the Irish victims support organisation “Relatives for Justice” which campaigns for truthContinue Reading
Only A General Amnesty Will Yield The Truth
As the impact of the arrest of the veteran activist Ivor Bell continues to reverberate within Republican circles there isContinue Reading
Law And Order, Ireland
So the Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has finally jumped ship after a catalogue of controversies involving allegations of systemicContinue Reading
Ireland, The Dysfunctional Poster-Child Of Minority Rights
The Hidden Ireland blog has a short post listing a number of motions on the Irish language from this year’sContinue Reading
Gaelic, The Pluralist Language
The people of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man are united by one thing above all others: the indigenousContinue Reading
The Ireland Inspires Video Gets A Response
An answer to the “Ireland Inspires” promotional video released by the Irish tourism authority, Fáilte Ireland, from students in Galway.
The Mafiaization Of Ireland
Every journalist in the world is influenced one way or another by his or her personal beliefs and values. SimpleContinue Reading
Putting The Irish Into Irish Shops
Up to a few years ago my local branch of Tescos, the British retail giant that expanded into the IrishContinue Reading
Anna Lo And British Government Agree On Colonial Ireland
With all the outrage vented over the last 24+ hours by some of the more historically-myopic members of the BritishContinue Reading
Some Irish Are More Equal Than Others
Forgive the “Animal Farm” paraphrase in the title above but it seemed appropriate when contemplating some recent articles written onContinue Reading
Liberal Unionist Anna Lo Supports A Reunited Ireland
When a senior politician from a party representing the moderate British Unionist or pro-Union vote in the north-east of theContinue Reading
Support From New York City For Irish Language Rights In Ireland
Well done to everyone who gathered at the famous Rocky Sullivan’s Pub in Red Hook, Brooklyn, to show their supportContinue Reading
The Crimea-Of-The-West
Meanwhile in the “Crimea-of-the-West” militants from the British separatist minority in the north-east of Ireland have staged another of theirContinue Reading
Culture Wars In Ireland And Britain
Hot on the heels of my post discussing the urgent need for the reform of public service broadcasting in Ireland comesContinue Reading
British Spooks Seek Irish Hookups
It seems that the Irish-based spooks of MI5, Britain’s Security Service, are growing ever-more brazen now that the dangers ofContinue Reading
Some Cock And Bull
First off we have some serious (if highly improbable) cock-waving by Resistance Republicans via a rather bland report by theContinue Reading
Irish TV And Cinema? Some Hope
I was going through my collection of Blu-ray and DVD movies and box-sets over the weekend, not to mention severalContinue Reading
The Ultimate Irish Joke
It’s that time of year again when Ireland’s political establishment trots out its bit of lip-service and tokenism in relationContinue Reading
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