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A New Era for Newry Gaels
Work begins on ‘Gaeláras Mhic Ardghail’ The Irish language receives a huge boost in Newry this week when building work begins on the new Irish language centre, ‘Gaeláras Mhic Ardghail’. It is hoped that the work will be completed and the centre opened by September 2012 – in time for the centenary of Omeath Irish [...] more »
Labhraionn Mac Giolla Eoin amach
Tá ráiteas déanta ag leascheannaire an SDLP, Patsaí Mac Giolla Eoin ar an Ghaeilge : “Irish language must be above all party side deals”. Ag labhairt dó i mBéarla Deardaoin seo chuaigh thart dúirt sé : “It is simply untrue and harmful when Gerry Adams claims that Sinn Fein is the only party fighting for [...] more »
An Ghaeilge sa tSín / Chinese University to teach Irish
Deirtear linn mar Ghaeil go minic gur cheart dúinn éirí as labhairt na Gaeilge agus dul i mbun foghlamtha ar an Sínis nó an Mandairínis le bheith beacht. Nach iontach an rud é le cloisteáil go mbeidh an Ghaeilge a theagaisc ag Ollscoil sa tSín, Beijing Foreign Studies University! B’fhéidir go gceapann siad go gcaithfidh [...] more »
Saillte?
Rinne mé tuairisc an tseachtain seo chuaigh thart go raibh caint ar straitéis don Ghaeilge seachas ar Acht na Gaeilge i gcainteanna Chroimghlinne. Tá an ‘comhaontú’, an toradh ar an cainteanna seo anois ar fáil . Bhí mé iomlán mí-cheart, níl iomrá ar bith ar Acht, nó straitéis, déanta na fírinne ní luaitear an Ghaeilge [...] more »
Faic bainte amach don Ghaeilge?
Tá cuma ar an scéal go bhfuil sé beartaithe ‘straitéis’ a bheith ann don Ghaeilge mar thoradh ar na cainteanna ar siúil i gCaisleán Chroimghlinne. Beidh le feiceáil cad a bheadh i gceist ach tá dualgas ar a DCAL agus ar Nelson McCausland straitéis a chur ar bun don Ghaeilge cheanna féin, rud atá Nelson [...] more »
70 sign up for classes!
Láinseáileadh an clár oibre nua Ghlór na Móna aréir thuas i nGaelscoil na Móna. Is eagraíocht é Glór na Móna a dhéanann seachas a bheith ag caint amháin agus is dream iad a dhéanann a chuid obair ar an talamh, go háitiúil, i measc a muintire féin. Cá bhfuil an scéal anseo a deir sibh?Chláraigh [...] more »
Talks and the ILA
Whilst talks continue on the devolution of Policing and Justice let us remind ourselves that an Irish Language Act was also part of the St. Andrew’s Agreement. There has been no mention of the proposed Act being an issue in the current talks and I have no indication whatsoever that it is. My view has [...] more »
Reading Blogs; why?
There was a bit of an off topic exchange of views of the Cardinal Cahal Daly (RIP) thread between Turgon and ‘The Spectator’. ‘The Spectator revealed that he doesn’t read any of Pete’s threads and consciously avoids debating with Turgon, Turgon seems none too pleased. I would have commented there but I am tied to [...] more »
An Glór Poblachtach : Iris Ghaeilge Shinn Féin
Tuigtear dom go mbeidh iris nua Ghaeilge Shinn Féin : An Glór Poblachtach ar díol sa Chultúrlann inniu. Tá sé beartaithe ag an pháirtí an iris, atá lán dáite is i nGaeilge amháin, a chur amach dhá uair in aghaidh na bliana ‘mar thús’. Mar a dúirt mé inné beidh roinnt Gaeilgeoirí thíos leis an [...] more »
Foras back beo.ie
Predictably Foras na Gaeilge have today taken the most conservative option and awarded the new contract for a new online Irish magazine to beo.ie. As one leading Irish language journalist has stated on hearing the news … ‘seandaoine gan spioráid, gan fhís … tá siad ceannaithe ag a gcairde agus faoi ualach an éadóchais’ Old [...] more »
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Debating the Churches’ Role in the Peace in Northern Ireland
This morning’s Sunday Sequence featured a substantial debate (about 35 minutes into the recorded programme) on a new book,Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press 2011), written by sociologists John Brewer, Gareth Higgins and Francis Teeney. The debate was framed in an opening vignette by presenter William Crawley in uncompromising terms, [...] read our review » -
Stay out of Libya: counterinsurgency doesn’t work
A moment of some significance in journalism perhaps, as the New York Times reviews the current talked about book, The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan by Bing West. The author is no bleeding heart but a former assistant Defense Secretary from the Reagan era who stomped his way round the Afghan [...] read our review »
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Spare us a phoney row about racism, we’ve got enough on
A silly media row about racism just had to figure in the riots’ post mortem. Was the Tudor history expert David Starkey racist on Newsnight when he said: The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion. And black and white, boy and girl, operate in [...] read our review »
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Comment on SWOTing the parties: Strengths of the SDLP…
on 11 February 2010 at 11:27 pm
1. Patsy McGlone, whilst not vocal on Irish language issues, nor active on the ground on Irish language issues according to my sources, is an excellent Irish speaker. Some Irish speakers would vote for him on that basis alone.
2. Dominic O Brollachain / Bradley is both an excellent Irish speaker and a radical and hard-working activist on the ground. He gets the support of Irish speakers at election time – even those who are actually Sinn Féin supporters.
3. They (the SDLP) are not Sinn Fein.
4. They have the support of the GAA
5. They have the support of the Catholic Church
6. They have the unquestioning support of the Irish News, known to them as ‘The Truth’.
7. They are at least percieved as exclusively middle class and therefore ‘decent’.
8. As they dont have any real aim, no one is ever disappointed
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Comment on For the benefit of the monoglot majority
on 10 February 2010 at 12:12 am
I should point out also that I surveyed the Slugger readership and around 50 regulars (pre-registration regime) declared that they could read and engage with Irish content. Not bad.
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Comment on For the benefit of the monoglot majority
on 10 February 2010 at 12:10 am
Slugger may be a ‘public space’ but it is in fact privately owned.
The proprietor positively welcomes input in Irish, hence his invitation to me to post in Irish. He also posts in Irish occasionally.
It is rare that people post in Irish on an English thread.
It should be pointed out that most threads in Irish link to material in Irish, therefore even if they were written in English it would be of little benefit, surely no-one suggests that we should not link to material in Irish.
On the question of terminology, most people (when speaking English) call the language Irish. Radicals tend to call the language Irish Gaelic. Calling the language ‘Gaelic’ is restricted to some Republicans (as they are refering to Irish by its Irish name in English), opponents of the language and purists who do not believe in ‘Irishness’.
I have no difficulties with any of the discriptions.
Expect to see more Gaelic posts, if not from me, from someone else as a number of Irish language media projects are about to get up and running.
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Comment on Bloggers v Journalists redux
on 9 February 2010 at 8:22 pm
“but it would be clever enough not to be there in the first place.”
Surely they were clever enough to leave land in the first place?
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Comment on George Lee resigns from Fine Gael
on 8 February 2010 at 8:17 pm
“Make a public complaint about clamping in Churchtown.”
All politics is local.
None of his qualities matter Mack if he cannot get power in his party.
Maybe they were afraid of him? maybe they thought – where have you been up to now?
I am not a FG supporter, I have just seen countless ‘stars’ failing in political parties as they could not adapt to the game that is politics.
Not defending it.
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Comment on George Lee resigns from Fine Gael
on 8 February 2010 at 8:06 pm
“He wasn’t yer average clientelist yokel TD, he shouldn’t have been treated as such..”
I disagree. He entered politics, he became a politican. Degrees etc. mean nothing in the game.
Politics is a craft in itself, a trade. His expertise would count for nothing if he could not consolidate power in his party.
A lesson hard learned.
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Comment on BBC and RTE to share public service digital platform in the Republic
on 8 February 2010 at 3:48 pm
http://tinyurl.com/yl6nvtq
Well David McNarry seems none too pleased.
He really makes me want to vote for the new force! Not.
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Comment on Margaret Ritchie elected as new SDLP leader
on 8 February 2010 at 2:10 pm
Does anyone know what Margaret Ritchie’s stance s on Dominic Bradley’s / SDLP’s Irish language bill?
McDonnell gave it a few mentions and incorparated some Irish in his site, there was no evidence of this on Ritchie’s site.
Any insider knowledge??
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Comment on For the benefit of the monoglot majority
on 7 February 2010 at 2:56 pm
Joe,
I have a small and little updated blogeen on the Gaelic on Antrim.
http://rathlingaelic.blogspot.com/
Maybe you will enjoy it – some of it is written in Antrim Irish but and Google translate just can’t cut the mustard!
All,
I only linked to the Nuacht 24 story. I cannot confirm the source of their story nor if the understood that these matters would be included in the agreement.
That said, as has been pointed out the agreements between the two governments on TG4 and RTÉ are clearly significant.
“Hardly sinister, but hardly noticed.”
David McNarry certainley noticed.
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Comment on For the benefit of the monoglot majority
on 7 February 2010 at 2:50 pm
Brian,
Google translate allows material written in Irish to be at least partially translated so I do not feel it was hidden in anyway.
It was a post written with my left had only in seven minutes and I am quite surprised it has been noticed!
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