European Charter for Regional and Minority Langauges

Ask not what the NI Executive can do for regional and minority languages…

Mick Fealty on August 7, 2013, 2:45 pm

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Aha, it’s that time of year again. You know, when the Culture Minister is asked to compile a report for the UK’s submission to the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages, s/he does, and then nothing comes back… It happened to Gregory Campbell’s report three years ago (which sank without trace with the deputy First Minister), and last year it happened to Minister Carál Ní Chuilín. Inside Ireland reports.. The UK government’s submission to the Council of Europe was …

Farewell to Gaelscéal

Concubhar on February 5, 2013, 11:44 am

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I am writing this article in English (though I will probably write something similar in Irish for Gaelscéal) because I want slugger fans, the majority of whom are English readers, to read it and engage with the issue, rather than get bogged down in whether or not it should be in Irish or English. As poet Michael Hartnett wrote in his poem, Farewell to English: But I will not see great men go down who walked in rags from town to town …