Her Majesty’s challenge for the opponents of Irish
A Uachtaráin agus a chairde. There were many significant elements to the speech given by Queen Elizabeth II in Dublin Castle yesterday and these five words were certainly among them. Not because of their meaning, but because of the language in which they were delivered. For centuries it was the policy of the British establishment to rid the Irish people of their Gaelic tongue and, for most of the population, they succeeded in their goal. It is slightly ironic therefore …