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
Tag: Irish Ireland – Éire Ghaelach
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
Uaigh Éadaoine, Éadaoin’s Grave, Hill Of Howth
Ceann Bhinn Éadair or Howth Head is the suburbanised peninsula overlooking the northern half of Dublin Bay, a headland that is geographically dominatedContinue 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
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 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
Oíche Bhealtaine 2015
It’s May Eve in north-western Europe and at sunset the ancient festival of Bealtaine, marking the start of theContinue Reading
The Right To Hate The Second-Class Irish
Another year, another dire record of public services for Irish-speaking citizens and communities by the supposedly bilingual Irish state (noteContinue Reading
Putting The Éire In Ireland
For the last four or five years of An Sionnach Fionn I have been promoting the potential benefits of “language tourism” forContinue Reading
Fighting To Speak Irish, Forced To Speak English
@thetwicket @MisneachNYC €billions per annum promoting the ENGLISH language, including compulsory useage, and this indeed is what it gets us —Continue Reading
Mick Wallace, Enda Kenny, Not Mincing Words
On one of the very rare days dedicated to the use of the Irish language in Dáil Éireann the controversial independent TD Mick WallaceContinue Reading
Tiocfaidh Ár Phéig!
Author Sara Baume writing in the Irish Times: “There are plenty of arguments against the inclusion of Sayers inContinue Reading
Stoking The Fires Of Hate
Conservative journalist and current Irish Independent columnist Sarah Carey has spent much of her career railing against the “national language”Continue Reading
Síle Na gCrann
Remarkable the things one can find in nature when one is out an’ about. However, can anyone else see it?Continue Reading
Decolonization Begins With One Word
From Vice Magazine, the campaign by Native Australian communities to reassert their cultural, linguistic and territorial rights: “On February 9,Continue Reading
Old Gods In New Settings
Here’s an article from Vice magazine on the Ásatrúarfélagið movement in Iceland that I meant to highlight a few weeksContinue Reading
All-Ireland Majority Support For Irish Language State Services
A new all-Ireland poll has found that majorities both nationally and regionally support the provision of public services in theContinue Reading
Putting The Irish Language Down
For the last three years I have argued that when it comes to the linguistic and cultural rights of theContinue Reading
The Walking Gaels, Not So Dead After All
The anglophone supremacists who influence so much of Ireland’s ideologically incestuous news media insist that Irish is a “dead language”. No one, they confidently assert, speaks, reads orContinue Reading
The Most Fucked Up Little Country In the World
How do you eliminate institutional discrimination against a minority community when public servants from an apathetic majority community dominate nearly all government departmentsContinue Reading
Je Suis Gael
In 1981 the “reverend” Ian Paisley MP MEP, founder and chief of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, the DemocraticContinue Reading
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