Interesting entry into the Irish language teaching world from BBC NOrthern Ireland. I’ve had a crack at the game, and can’t get past the hideous sean bhean who keeps asking the same old question over and over: ca hait a raibh tu ar a haon deag areir? (where were you at eleven last night?). There also similar Scots Gaelic and North and South Welsh sites. Looks like there’s plenty to play with. Let us have your impressions below?
Fair play to Iain, he managed to get over 2,200 people voting in his poll for the top Northern Irish blogs this year… We (just, I imagine) retained our top spot, with Splintered coming straight in at number 2, no doubt his pet subject du jour will have garnered him a lot of fans… I’ve [...] read our review »
The nod and wink politics of Ireland’s last two or three decades as practised par excellence by Bertie, Albert and Charlie is ultimately what has the Republic in the stew it’s in. Don’t get me wrong, the effective monitoring of those exercising of power does not demand full disclosure of everything all the time. But [...] read our review »
‘news’ is often a polite way of saying ‘editor’s whim’ Given the shift from print to online and e-ink, maybe Tom Rachman’s The Imperfectionists was a suitable first first book for me to finish reading on the Kindle. Considering the economic pressures on the newspaper industry, his novel perhaps captures the spirit and soul of [...] read our review »