Le: Jim Monaghan
Ite Ni Chionnaith, former Uactaran Conradh, grew up in an Irish speaking family in Inchicore. To a degree being an Irish speaker is being a member of a dispised minority.
View ArticleLe: Peadar Ó Lorcáin
doesn’t surprise me, sionnach – of course the unpalatable truth is that there are tenured-teachers in this state that don’t care about irish…. and about maths, and the sciences, and the romance...
View ArticleLe: Pádraig Ó Déin
I read that article in the páipéar neamhspleách earlier today and I immediately shouted, in the presence of visitors to my house, “Arrogant bastard!”. I was truly infuriated. At the start he rubbed the...
View ArticleLe: Séamas Ó Sionnaigh (An Sionnach Fionn)
Very much so. An ex-girlfriend of mine grew up in Skerries as an Irish-speaker during the 1980s and ’90s, attended the local gaelscoil, and experienced years of verbal and physical abuse from the...
View ArticleLe: an lorcánach
I know – ‘course we have to sympathise with this elder journalist having retired from that paragon of virtue, the Indo, before pension changes were announced! Bad short term memory myself but seem to...
View ArticleLe: Séamas Ó Sionnaigh (An Sionnach Fionn)
Yes, I always find it odd to meet <em>Irish </em>Republicans who are hostile or indifferent to Irish. I remember several arguments in the late 1990s with a leading Republican of the hard...
View ArticleLe: Séamas Ó Sionnaigh (An Sionnach Fionn)
There is an interesting piece by him <a href="http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/gerard-oregan-a-speech-with-courage-and-energy-that-micheal-martin-didnt-deliver-29241623.html"...
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