The Lia Fáil Desecrated Once Again
Two years ago I featured a report on the act of vandalism carried out against the Lia Fáil, the ancientContinue Reading
Tag: Irish Ireland – Éire Ghaelach
Expediency Is No Substitute For Commitment
From a profile in today’s Irish Times on Lynn Boylan, formerly Lynn Ní Bhaoighealláin , the Sinn Féin candidate inContinue Reading
The Great Irish Paradox
From the Daily Beast: “Here in Odessa, the conflict has nothing to do with a linguistic divide. Everyone speaks Russian.Continue Reading
Féile na Bealtaine
Some appropiate links for Lá Bealtaine, traditionally the first day of summer by the indigenous calendars of the Irish, Scots and Manx (andContinue Reading
The Legacy Of Brian Bóroimhe
2014 marks a thousand years since Cath Chluain Tarbh or the Battle of Clontarf so a quick post to highlight some fantasticContinue Reading
The Fenian Flame
For decades, or indeed centuries, the British sought to criminalise the Irish Republican cause, to portray Ireland’s revolutionary movements asContinue Reading
A Tale Of Two Languages
Kate Fennell in the Irish Times examining the Basque Country and the successful struggle for language rights in that IberianContinue Reading
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
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
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
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
Let Us Do Evil That Good May Come
Sometimes I wonder if there is an entire generation of Irish historians and writers who are so cocooned inside anContinue Reading
Ireland’s Citizens And Version-Citizens
The Official Languages Act of 2003 is one of the few pieces of legislation in Irish law that guarantees theContinue Reading
The Times They Are A-Changin’
While some have tried to reprimand An Sionnach Fionn and its readers for our assertive contribution in redefining the debateContinue Reading
Irish Rights Are Indigenous Rights?
The biggest deterrent to speaking Irish in Ireland? The hostile or derisory responses it elicits from a handful of chauvinisticContinue Reading
Ireland’s Supreme Court, Rights Of Irish-Speaking Citizens Are Conditional
Several writers and activists have protested at my recent characterisation of Irish-speakers in Ireland as second-class citizens with second-class rights.Continue Reading
186. Imbolc
Originally posted on ancroiait:
Imbolg shona daoibh Tá an geimreadh ag iompar an samhradh Lá Fhéile Bríde/Là Fhèill Brìghde/ Laa’l…
Lá An Dreoilín Shona Daoibh Go Léir!
Happy hunting to all those who join the Lucht an Dreoilín today.
When The Last Speaker Of Irish Is Dead They Will Rejoice
Having spent the last few hours reading the comments on two pieces examining the issue of Irish language rights onContinue Reading
Pádraig Mac Piarais – The New Study In Review
I’ve been meaning to write a review of the new biography of Pádraig Mac Piarais, “Patrick Pearse: the making of a revolutionary“ byContinue Reading
Fighting For The Truth
There is a letter in The Irish Times from a host of Irish civil rights campaigners, journalists, businesspeople, academics and student leaders protesting theContinue Reading
An Irish-American Story
From the Irish Independent a story on Séamus Ó Fianghusa, an Irish-American soldier who is now the subject of a new documentary onContinue Reading
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