Get Up, Stand Up, Stand Up For Your Rights
For once an Sionnach Fionn is speechless. Someone has actually stood up for the civil rights of Ireland’s Irish-speaking communities andContinue Reading
Tag: The Irish Language – An Ghaeilge
The Final Solution To The Irish Problem
Well it would seem that the anglophone supremacists driving the anti-Irish agenda in Fine Gael and the Labour Party areContinue Reading
An Eye To the Future?
According to the Oirish Independent Fine Gael golden boy Leo Varadkar is off to improve his Irish language abilities in theContinue Reading
The Irish Unarmed Struggle
The Journal carries an article on the Irish language from Ian Mac Eochagáin, a professional Russian-English translator. Or more accurately itContinue Reading
A Win For Seán And Síle Citizen
Wow! Logic and reason has been displayed by the Irish civil service in relation to the Irish speaking citizenry of the state. Or did the barrage of national andContinue Reading
Trash TV Versus Irish TV
Last week I reported on the risible claim by some journo over at the Oirish Independent newspaper that staff with the Irish language radio station Raidió na GaeltachtaContinue Reading
Irish National Heritage Park – No Irish?
A great post from the Irish Archaeology blog on a recent visit to the Irish National Heritage Park at CaladhContinue Reading
Kicking The Pale Where It Hurts
Here in Ireland a virulent minority of the population, anglophone supremacists and other Neo-Unionist remnants of the former British colonyContinue Reading
Gaeltacht Bill 2012 – Progress Or Hidden Agenda?
The FG-Lab coalition government has finally produced its long expected Gaeltacht Bill 2012, the most controversial piece of legislation toContinue Reading
TG4 And RnaG – Time For A Single Irish Public Broadcasting Service
The Oirish Independent newspaper carries a report announcing “major reforms at RTÉ”, especially in relation to its, er, Irish languageContinue Reading
Ulster-Scots – Full Marks For Invention
The Belfast Telegraph has got into the polling gimmick in a big way recently (blame it’s “sister” paper, the OirishContinue Reading
The Dream Of Roger Casement
Nobel prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa has a short article in the Daily Telegraph (yes, I know, not my usual choiceContinue Reading
Life As Usual In The Westie Independent
Oh for God’s sake… “An Englishman gave us back our flag — and now we are reclaiming our own languageContinue Reading
Ag Troid Ar Ais
So you think you live in an Ireland of equals? Think again. From Gaelport: “My name is Niamh Ní ChadlaContinue Reading
Sinn Féin – Missing The Real Irish Revolution
Following on from my criticism of Gerry Adam’s speech at the 2012 Sinn Féin Ard-Fheis in Cill Airne for failingContinue Reading
Mícheál Ó hAirtnéide
A quick post to mark a review by Theo Dorgan in the Irish Times of a new biography of the Irish poet Mícheál Ó hAirtnéideContinue Reading
So You Think You Know What It Means To Be Irish? Think Again…
During the revival of the French language and culture in Québec in the 1970s and ‘80s it became noticeable thatContinue Reading
Minding Your Language In Derry
A new survey of local secondary students by Derry City Council has found a fair degree of both use and support amongst pupils fromContinue Reading
Gay Rights And Gael Rights. Facing Down The Bigots
The Irish Examiner has an editorial, presumably reflecting the newspaper’s official view, which yet again shows the extraordinarily warped reasoning of theContinue Reading
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In Praise Of An Hobad – But Why The Awful Gaelicisations?
The J.R.R. Tolkien fansite, TheOneRing.net, carries some news on the release of An Hobad, the Irish language version of Tolkien’sContinue Reading
Ignorance Is Bliss
In the Scotsman newspaper columnist Fiona McCade has contributed to the world of journalism one of the most selfish, self-centred,Continue Reading
Shining A Light On Institutional Discrimination?
Following on from the revelations of serious breaches by a significant number of public bodies in relation to their legal obligations underContinue Reading
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