Five Thousand March For Irish Rights In Belfast
Last Saturday up to five thousand people took part in An Lá Dearg i mBéal Feirste, a march through theContinue Reading
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An Lá Dearg I mBéal Feirste
Following on from the mass demonstration held in Dublin eight weeks ago during which 10,000 people marched across the capitalContinue Reading
Arrested For Speaking Irish In Europe’s Darkest Corner
The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, is on an official state visit to Britain, the first by an IrishContinue Reading
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
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
Welsh, A Foreign Language In Britain
Substitute “Ireland” for “Wales” and “Irish” for “Welsh” and the discrimination revealed below would be pretty much the same. From aContinue 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
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 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
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
An English Ireland Fears An Irish Ireland
For over two-and-a-half years An Sionnach Fionn has been reporting on the rising levels of public antipathy towards Irish-speaking citizensContinue Reading
Medieval Discrimination In A Modern Ireland
The 14th century Statues of Kilkenny are generally remembered as one of the poorer attempts by the British state inContinue 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
If You Tolerate This
The Limerick Leader carries an opinion piece by conservative columnist Patricia Feehily that plumbs the noxious depths of Anglophone intolerance asContinue Reading
Save Our Language!
Lá Mór na Gaeilge, the rally in support of Irish language rights: 2.00pm, the entrance to the Garden of Remembrance,Continue Reading
A Red Day For Irish
More views on Lá Mór na Gaeilge, the demonstration to be held in support of Irish language rights starting atContinue Reading
Dearg Le Fearg!
Another reminder about the demonstration for Irish language rights due to be held in Dublin at 2pm on the 15thContinue Reading
Lá Mór Na Gaeilge
There is a day-of-action planned for Saturday the 15th of February 2014 in support of Irish language rights on ourContinue Reading
Celtic Europe, Battling Bigotry From Left And Right
There is an influential theory held by an extremist minority on the Far Left of European politics which opposes aContinue Reading
The Ghettoization Of The Irish Language
That perennial red herring, the manner in which the official national language of the nation-state of Ireland is taught inContinue Reading
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