Facebook’s Opportunist Defence Of Non-English Languages
Given the relative antipathy or indifference of most major internet corporations to global minority languages, or indeed to any languages other than American English,Continue Reading
Tag: Irish Ireland – Éire Ghaelach
Antipathy To The Irish Language Is A Legacy Of Colonialism
Irish is the indigenous language of the island nation of Ireland and has held that unique position for at least theContinue Reading
The Renua Election Manifesto, Light On The Taxes, Lighter On The Irish
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
The Neo-Celtic Architectural Revival That Wasn’t
Most observers agree that the applicability of the term “Celtic architecture” is largely a matter of perception since no such tradition of buildingContinue Reading
The Celtic Language Insurgents
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
Begging For Permission To Be Irish In Ireland
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
Anglophone Segregationists In Wales, Hipster Denigrationists In Ireland
I suppose it was inevitable that an Anglophone supremacist somewhere in Ireland or Britain would pop up to denigrate that which mostContinue Reading
The Origins Of The Halloween Jack-O’-Lantern
There are many customs surrounding the annual October holiday of Halloween or All Hallows’ Eve, the quasi-Christian festival incorporating significantContinue Reading
¡Viva Irlanda! I’m Irish – Speak Spanish!
In recent weeks the TG4 period drama, An Klondike, has garnered favourable reviews from across the Anglophone press and media in Ireland, gaining plauditsContinue Reading
Killing Irish-Speakers With Kindness
In light of the recent ruling by the courts that the Gardaí failed to follow the law by not producingContinue Reading
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
#MyNameIs And #NINA As Facebook Claims Irish Names Are Not Real Names
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
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
Lá Lúghnasa Agus Diarmaid Ó Donnabháin Rossa
A belated happy Lá Lúghnasa to one and all as we celebrate the traditional harvest festival marking the commencement of the third quarterContinue 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
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
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