... and news on the progress being made to reclaim the Irish tongue from the damage done by the past and present enemies of Gaelic, ... by the English aristocracy to the misguided action of the Irish government in 1974 to nullify the requirement that civil servants be ...
Niall McCarsten - Oct 6 2013 - 9:03pm - 0 comments
... of the European Council policy for the upgrading of the Irish Language to “Fully Official EU Status”. This is good news for the Irish Language. No matter how you slice this, the Irish Tongue will benefit ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jun 19 2016 - 6:12pm - 0 comments
... year old pirate. A recent article in the newspaper The Irish Post reports that: "A woman who claims she married the ghost of a ... turned sour." Amanda Teague, from Downpatrick (Irish: Dún Pádraig) in the north of Ireland married the ghost of a pirate in ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - May 31 2019 - 5:04pm
Emmett McIntyre's blog The Irish Times are reporting that the ubiquitous UK food retailer Tesco have ... succeeded in its Galway store with the introduction of Irish in its day to day operations: “Customers at one of the largest Tesco shops in the West can already pay for their shopping in Irish following the recent introduction of Irish language services…..The ...
Emmett McIntyre - Apr 18 2014 - 2:46pm - 0 comments
Emmett McIntyre's blog The Irish language spoken in Ireland today is the direct descendant without break ... Ireland We Dreamed Of” and contains inspiring language on Irish national identity and the Celtic tongue. The speech marked the 50th ...
Emmett McIntyre - May 13 2017 - 7:07pm
... stone in a field not far from the village of Knockbridge (Irish: Droichead an Chnoic) known locally as ‘The Field of Slaughter'. It ... grave of a past great warrior and is called Clochafarmore (Irish: Cloch an Fhir Mhóir). Sometimes this standing stone is referred to as ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Jun 7 2021 - 12:34pm
... events are being held in regard to this anniversary by the Irish Red Cross. Interestingly they are having a talk on ‘the Irish Geneva Convention’ an ancient treaty dating from the 7th Century Cáin ...
Alastair Kneale - Aug 30 2019 - 1:27pm
Eibhlin O'Neill's blog Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind (IGDB) is a national charity dedicated to ... and generosity of all its supporters including IGDB patron Irish football assistant manager and former professional football player Roy ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Sep 19 2016 - 5:39pm - 0 comments
... have approved plans to bolster the official status of the Irish language in Northern Ireland (Irish: Tuaisceart Éireann). The proposed law aims to create new protections ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Oct 28 2022 - 1:40pm
Eibhlin O'Neill's blog In today's Irish Times , Ruadhán Mac Cormaic Foreign Affairs Correspondent, reports on ... conditions. This week on a visit to Dublin she urged the Irish Government to press for the establishment of protected zones for ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Nov 30 2016 - 2:20pm - 0 comments