Odrán de Bhaldraithe
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Gaeilgeoir dúchais, Cill Chainneach, iománaí Lámh Dhearg. de Bhaldraithe for non-fiction: Neglect in the North of Ireland Waldron for fiction
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Informative that Ciara Kelly's abiding memory of the 'Troubles' is "deaths on the news". My family's memories are that of checkpoints, guns shoved in faces, killings and internment without trial at the hands of the Brits. Sorry your TV watching was slightly uncomfortable Ciara.
"You can say it's harmless singing these songs, but it makes me nervous." Were the large crowd at the Wolfe Tones concert during Electric Picnic romanticising the IRA?
@NTBreakfast
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the radio station that regularly calls for the full abandonment of the Irish language - spoken daily outside the education system by over 100,000 people - wants you to know that there is one family in Monaghan still loyal to the British crown
Ireland became a Republic 75 years ago today but there still some people who feel a strong affection for the British Royal Family. 🇬🇧👑
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There’s an idea in the south that a unified Ireland (free state +6 for them) would need to incorporate unionists alone as if republicans aren’t estranged from southern thinking. If you proposed a holiday in honour of, say, the hunger strikers, these people would call you divisive
STATEMENT: Costello calls for the Irish Government to make 12th of July a public holiday.
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“It’s not me, it’s not my family” - the only true lyrics in Zombie. It wasn’t people in Limerick or their families. The reason these types object to IRA violence rather than loyalist and British army violence is because the former is the only one that threatened the status quo
‘Zombie is an accurate representation of what the majority of Irish people felt at the time about the squalid, cruel campaign of violence being carried out, supposedly in their name, by the Provisional IRA.’ My (other) column today.
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A state hostile to Ireland, her people, and the notion that we could ever determine our own futures signals its belief that it should be allowed to kill Irish people with impunity.
BREAK: Commons passes Bill to end historical prosecutions in Northern Ireland.
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So much of journalism around the Irish language in particular but in Ireland in general appears to be an argument in favour of stupidity. If you can't understand something, instead of it being incumbent upon you to learn, it's apparently incumbent on others to drop to your level
Dingle Distillery doubling down on the unpronounceable brand names with the Grianstad an Gheimhridh release
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No mention of Seán Brown and his family's quest for justice this weekend from the former president of the GAA
‘A decade of opportunity’ says
@MaryLouMcDonald
. No Mary, ‘a decade of opportunism’ by
@sinnfeinireland
. When
@duponline
deserve credit for swallowing pride & getting
#Northern
Ireland Assembly back, you create division by calling for a
#Borderpoll
!
#CalmThingsDown
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funny how we're always told that the language is a middle class pursuit yet when we are subjected to this spiel it's always from people with accents that suggest that they are middle class at the very least
“Why should I be forced to sit in an Irish class I don’t enjoy?”
The
#RTEUpfront
audience have their say on whether Irish should be compulsory in schools.
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Bernadette Devlin co-founded the IRSP in 1974. She stood as an independent in 1979 in support of the men on the blanket and dirty protest. She was a leading spokesperson for the Smash H-Block campaign in 1980 and 1981.
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and Eamonn McCann melted away like snow off a ditch after 1973, nowhere to be seen until the fighting was over, those are facts. reappeared like 2 shouty students after the GFA had been signed.
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Why have we allowed this nonsense take hold within republicanism? Since when do we think so little of ourselves that we think it's Americans who will decide the success of the national liberation struggle and not Irish people?
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Who do we think has scared Irish women, young and old, more: trans people or the British army, of which Gerry here was a member
I have 8 sisters, a wife, a
Daughter etc I'm not going to be a part of them being uncomfortable or scared by men
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What I'll say for Shane MacGowan is that the daoine ardnósach who say he took the cringe out of trad betray themselves by making it out to be something embarrassing and twee. Shane was nothing like them; you cannot play the way he did without a deep love for what you're playing
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Micheál Martin says that the IRA were responsible for the vast majority of civilian deaths during the latest war in Ireland; this isn't close to true and wouldn't even be true to say of republicans if all were grouped together. Who's uneducated about the Troubles again?
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You could always - and I know this is crazy for you people - learn something
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Liam Mellows on the idea of America being a friend to Irish independence. Relevant as ever.
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Martin continues his quest to demonise northern nationalists as intolerant and backwards on the day an Armagh man assumes the GAA presidency. Why on earth would the GAA act as a recruiting agent for any police force, let alone a colonial one?
Tánaiste Micheál Martin says GAA must do more to encourage Catholics to join the PSNI
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International network of braindeads saying Irish lives matter here while ignoring the ruling government's Legacy Bill that says they don't and their comrades abroad saying Ireland is conquered. This part of Ireland is literally occupied, but yeah, immigrants are the problem!
If saying “Irish lives matter” in Ireland is a hate crime that’s the definition of a conquered nation
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Every inch of "Israel": stolen from the natives
St Canice's Cathedral: stolen from the natives by the Church of Ireland
Up the cats and up Palestine
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Another victory for the people who demand we be as stupid as possible. Blame the way it's taught for people not speaking the language outside of education and then support people being taught to ignore one of the main dialects of the language as spoken outside of education 🤷♂️
Leaving Cert relief as Irish aural section ‘did not have a Donegal accent’
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Subtract the deaths caused by British state agents within the IRA - Scappaticci alone is linked to 18 - and attribute them to British state forces (including loyalists) and very quickly you’ll realise that it just isn’t true to say the IRA was responsible for the most deaths
I thank Jon Boutcher and the Kenova team.
Their report is clear. The PIRA was responsible for the most deaths in NI during the Troubles, over 1700.
And for torture, inhumane treatment and murder, including of children, vulnerable adults, and those entirely innocent. (1/3)
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There are Sinn Féin posters all over west Belfast telling the residents that rejoining this horrific bloc is one of the main benefits of a united Ireland
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Bryson got less than half the amount of votes than, say, Dan Murphy of the IRSP. Both are anti-GFA but only one gets media coverage like this. Not advocating the censorship of Bryson by any means but as always the most interesting angle is which "dissent" is allowed and promoted.
'It’s time unionism took the gloves off': In the North, everybody knows about loyalist activist Jamie Bryson. He is young, unelected and not part of any party – but he is a major player in Northern Ireland. Read his interview with Gerry Moriarty here 👉
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When people in Ireland were fighting for those "noble goals", Fintan O'Toole was writing articles against them and bigging up the liberal reformism of John Hume, whose ultimate pitch to republicans was that they needed to clean their faces and accept a life within the empire
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I'm never done telling this story but then again dopes are never done telling us that there are no parallels between Ireland and Palestine. The Palestinians themselves see it and that's good enough for me. Although it was actually 2019, turns out.
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Congratulations to Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh for not allowing the horrendous millstone that is the Irish language to hold her back. She is a real inspiration to backwards Gaeilgeoirí all over the country who wish to free themselves of the oppressive yoke of multilingualism.
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What Gript did confirms that they don’t independently verify what their sources tell them, and they are obviously not the first Irish “journalists” to do so, but what that reveals kills them: they are every bit as lazy, stupid and incurious as the media establishment they decry
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I don't like indifference but I understand it; I can't say the same for the way Yates and his media friends celebrate their ignorance, as if it's a virtue. I can't speak, say, Chinese; I'm not ashamed but neither am I proud of it in the way Yates is proud of his lack of ability.
Sickened to see an Irish presenter stand up and shake hands over such a comment.
Not to mention inviting a guest to talk about our national language and commenting "Have we got subtitles at some point?"
@SixOClockShow
deleted the post before we can see their lack of quality...
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Neglect in the North of Ireland is out today. Thank you to
@Ebb_Magazine
for publishing and grmíle to anyone and everyone involved in getting us here. Tiocfaidh ár lá
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Of course this is because orangeism and free staterism share the same goal: the isolation of Ireland’s revolutionary tradition. What the free staters don’t understand is that the unionists have no need or desire to reciprocate their gestures, they have what they want already
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My first book, Neglect in the North of Ireland, will be available for preorder from
@Ebb_Magazine
soon. It covers neglect of all kinds: economic, political, cultural, and democratic. It arrives in early 2023, I am very excited.
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Anyone who has read my book (hint hint) knows I'm not an SF supporter but the idea that election results in the 70s and 80s illustrate support or lack thereof for militant republicanism is just total nonsense.
Lots of comments on my attendance at Rineen Ambush Commemoration, Co Clare.
There’s a lot of revising of history and facts.
People in Northern Ireland continually rejected
@sinnfeinireland
at the ballot box until PIRA ceasefire
The PIRA murdered civilians by the hundreds.
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The Good Friday Agreement literally enshrines the British Government as the only authority that gets to decide when the "people of Ireland" get to practice this "self-determination".
Confines of parliamentarianism being made clear making some parliamentarians uncomfortable.
Hi
@TulipSiddiq
In keeping with the Good Friday Agreement, the people of Ireland will determine our own constitutional future
The British parliament has no right, nor will ever have the right to interfere in this
Please respect Irish self-determination
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For this, she and her husband were shot by the UDA while the British army unit surveilling her up the road sat on their hands until their friends had finished. Immortal legend that Bernadette is, she survived nine bullets.
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The only thing that has changed is Sinn Féin
This is a day of historic change.
I am determined to deliver for everyone as a First Minister for all.
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Celtic is an interesting case study: board intent on ascension to the passionless, post-political EPL and UCL elite vs politically mobilised support who refuse to be flattened. Funny that the main thing stopping the ascension is the board's refusal to properly invest in the team
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Why not interrogate why the native language of Ireland apparently alienates those people instead?
And if a “shared island” (hands across the divide) is what we’re about, why pick titles that will alienate the other side?
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The GAA's appeal is that it's not professional; you can go to Croke Park or the local club pitch and see your teacher or a brickie perform feats that 99% of people could never do. Don't know why people make these comparisons; what we have is unique and needs no outside validation
It’s amazing how some top English soccer club hasn’t given David Clifford a trial considering he has more talent in his small toe than some of these 50m players. If they can make soccer players out of Niall Quinn and Kevin Moran, well then Clifford can’t be an impossibility.
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Going to make it all about me by posting an article I wrote for Deadspin (RIP) about James McClean five years ago at the height of the poppy fervour. Not the greatest of players but a man of incredible strength who has my admiration forever.
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Survey your timeline today and you'll see scenes from Rafah that are beyond anyone's idea of hell. It is Celtic supporters' opposition to scenes like that that has Liel Abada unsure if he can play for the club again. Good riddance.
Brendan Rodgers on Liel Abada’s absence from Celtic’s win over St Mirren….
“He wasn’t in a right frame of mind. So we gave him this chance to have a few days and clear his mind. I’ll have a chat with him again next week, see where he’s at.”
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Why would anyone listen to one of the only men stupid enough to have a bookies go bust in Ireland about the allocation of resources?
Ivan Yates doubles down on his comments about the Irish language and calls for an "adult conversation" over the allocation of resources. Read more:
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Something that should be avoided is making assumptions and thus pre-emptive demands on behalf of immigrants. If you tell them the language is being "forced" on them like some millstone to wear, of course they'll resist it, but we should have confidence in our own culture
1 in 5 Irish are now foreign-born. Many probably speak English as a second or third language. Irish as a distant fourth.
Why should their kids be forced to learn Irish? These are the sorts of cultural accommodations Ireland will be forced to make as its society changes.
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All then usual suspects crying every few weeks about the Wolfe Tones have nothing to say because they’ve no interest in reconciliation, if they did they’d acknowledge that the first step towards reconciliation is the removal of the British power apparatus from Ireland
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Aistriúchán Gaoluinne, gml má tá butúin gramadach ann. Go mbeadh coladh sámh ag Refaat agus a mhuintir.
Came across Dr. Refaat Alareer's poem "If I must die" just a few days ago, I cried and couldn't help but translated it to Chinese without his permission. Now that he's gone.
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What a bizarre world it is we live in where a man from Tipperary is compelled to go on a Dublin radio station to criticise the British state broadcaster for being too hard on British state actions in Ireland
"The British government spent the equivalent of billions funneling relief to Ireland."
- Historian Liam Kennedy says there wasn't a 'lack of action' from the British in dealing with the Famine
#BKNT
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Enabled every step of the way by the fascist planter class it has inculcated in the north for 400 years and by quislings north and south who swear to us that they are equal partners in what they call “peace”, but is in reality an absence of revolutionary opposition
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@brianjohnspencr
Attempts to bomb Belfast city centre and every other economic centre because an apartheid system that denied Irish self-determination and was brutally enforced through pogroms and disenfranchisement was in place
You get on as though "Northern Ireland" exists for the craic
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Karl Marx considers the division of the working class in England into hostile camps of immigrant versus native, 1870
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This is actually entirely consistent with my narrative, which is that the people of the north have been depoliticised on par with the free state in the GFA era. But look don’t take my word for it, buy my book and read about it for
yourself
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A revolutionary movement committed “crimes” in the drive to rid their country of the foreign occupier?
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Two All-Ireland finals in a row where these young Offaly boys are taught the most important lesson of all: you’ll get fuck all against the big three and then they’ll praise you for your effort
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Very happy to say I'm making my fiction in print debut under m'ainm gallda in this issue of Sonder with a little flash story. Looking forward to seeing my own story in print and reading the rest of the work inside.
🎉Announcing our Issue IX contributors 🎉
Please join us in welcoming the new writers to the Sonder fam. We are so incredibly excited for you to read their weird and wonderful pieces.
Thank you to everyone who submitted. Keep going, writing is a mad and beautifulthing 🎪
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very good
I wrote this for
@intifada
about the dangerous "ISIS = Hamas" propaganda currently being used by Israel & its allies to justify its ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinians & why it is not only both false and insulting, but a case of projection.
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In the drive to make Ireland as stupid as possible, we imply that non-white and/or non-Irish people could/should ever learn our language. This and Mary McCarthy in the Indo last week, pre-emptive demands on behalf of people who never made such demands. Go bhfoire Dia orainn.
Irish requirement for teaching training a barrier to a diverse workforce -
@AodhanORiordain
“The need for Higher Level Irish at Leaving Cert level jars with other mandatory subjects.
👉 ..
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If you think the Troubles was a blood feud, might I suggest reading anything, but especially reading Neglect in the North of Ireland by Odrán de Bhaldraithe
I really can’t grasp this stuff. The peace process means that no longer happens. People are no longer being shot, maimed and bombed. A blood feud can only end through forgiveness and looking forward.
Would people prefer there were still explosions & murders? That’s alternative.
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Few things more representative of the real GFA agenda than the Alliance getting a round of applause because Naomi says we need a few reforms and the institutions to get back up and running so we can impose water charges on people
“We can have conversations….and government. That’s how the rest of the world works.”
Alliance Leader
@naomi_long
outlines how talks about reform and other issues are not mutually exclusive from doing the business of government ⬇️
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Complacent yuppies love the idea of the pub as culture and community. In their atomisation they feel the lack of both and desire them but with no willingness to stretch beyond themselves to build them, they plumb for redefining being a customer as being part of a community.
@VFIpubs
submitted Expression of Interest to Dept of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport & Media last August. Good to see
@NiamhSmythTD
&
@UnaMullally
publicly support our call, now we need
@cathmartingreen
to progress the application and make
@UNESCOEU
listing a reality.
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Anglicisation is a funny, confusing thing; if Somhairle becomes Sorley and MacGill-Eain becomes MacLean, why does Seamus not become James? If Seamus is okay to remain, why not Somhairle and MacGill-Eain?
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An eite dheis: Caithfimid stop a chur leis na himiricigh agus an mhilleadh atá á dhéanamh acu d'ár gcúltúr. Táimid ag iarraidh é a mhilleadh muid féin.
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Neglect in the North of Ireland comes out via
@Ebb_Magazine
on the 22nd of June. You can pre-order it from the link below for £8. It's guaranteed to be a feel-good summer read while the early July bonfires warm your garden.
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Mise mar an gcéanna. Mileann sé ár dteanga dúchais álainn í a úsáid chun cur síos a dhéanamh ar an gcluiche garastúin gránna leadránach sin
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Ceisteanna d'éinne a labhraíonn fé ár gcúltúr a "chaomnú" ó inimircigh:
1. Cén canúint Gaoluinn a labhraíonn tú?
2. Cén cumann CLG atá agat?
3. Cén úirlís a sheineann tú?
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Damn this blew up. Buy Neglect in the North of Ireland
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If anyone knows this man please purchase him a copy of Neglect in the North of Ireland by Odrán de Bhaldraithe to let him know that he is not alone this Christmas season
Too the millions of people who saw the elderly gentleman leave home with his dog visit a graveyard then go into his local bar and be greeted by the barman with a pint of Guinness,the not so sweet little old man is none other than a bitter dissident republican .
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What the horrible people who respond to pleas for justice for the Browns like this ignore is that the La Mon bombing was carried out by British agents within the IRA, including Denis Donaldson. Truth about the collusion in Seán Brown's murder is of a piece with truth re: La Mon.
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Two days away from publication, had a good chat with Louis that includes the story of a time a man in Nablus said tiocfaidh ár lá to me
In advance of the release of “Neglect in the North of Ireland” this Thursday,
@Louis_Allday
spoke to its author, Odrán de Bhaldraithe (
@ancamansoluis
) about the book’s main arguments, the ‘peace process’ and the parallels between Ireland and Palestine.
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The government should fund the GAA in its entirety via tax revenue to protect it from the despoliation of private market sponsorship that inevitably leads to things like "SuperValu Páirc"
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Deas an Ghaoluinn a fheiscint gan amhras ach tá sé mar masla ar muintir Tír Chonaill, Gaillimh, An Rinn, Corca Dhuibhne, Múscraí srl gan iad a luaidh agus tú ag labhairt fé athbheochan na teanga. Ba chóir d'áit insan stair a thusicint, tá an meon ceart ag leaids Kneecap.
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Ní amháin neamhshaor ach frithghaelach comh maith; ní amháin frithghaelach ach neamhshaor comh maith
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If you would like to gain an understanding of Ireland that is more informed than whatever this is, be sure to pick up Neglect in the North of Ireland by Odrán de Bhaldraithe
i am also jealous that the tax haven irish get to ride the coattails of northern ireland's decolonial natlib clout but lets not pretend they havent got it
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The idea that republican paramilitaries had no support is a lie told by the SDLP and free staters. There weren't safehouses and weapon stashes all over Ireland by accident.
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The reviews are in: you will not enjoy it but it is well written and you will feel better for having read it
@ancamansoluis
I finished it the other day and while I wouldn't say I enjoyed it, I did think it was very well-written and feel better for having read it. Thank you for writing it
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“There can be no meaningful reconciliation unless victims and families know the truth.”
A good start would be the Tánaiste acknowledging the truth of what actually happened.
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Peelers now somehow being cast as the victims of this when it was them that waded into a flower-laying ceremony and arrested people and it was their predecessor organisation that handed the pistol used in the massacre back to the UDA in the first place
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The "forced" framing is obviously used by people with no interest in growing Gaelic culture. Those of us who live it know that the way forward is to present the life - the language, the hurling, the music - positively and to bring people into it
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Ná éist l’aon páirtí a dheireann go bhfuil an Ghaoluinn á chur chun cinn acu tar éis dóibh aontú le Paul Givan a ainmniú mar aire oideachas
Terrible news for young women, LGBTQ+ pupils, young Gaeilgeoirí and education workers! 🧵
Our new Education Minister Paul Givan is 'a creationist who has in the past supported the teaching of alternatives to evolution in schools.'
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Taobh amuigh d’impireacht na Breataine, ní raibh lámh níos laidre ag éinne an teanga a chur ar tí bás seachas an eaglais. If you look at the foundation of Maynooth, the church were the partners of the Brits in eradicating the language
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@hill16bhoy
My narrative is people should understand history as it happened, factoring in the forces at play when discussing reaction and counter reaction, rather than dismissing the experience of one community. If I said that bomb was in your head, I would seem callous, wouldn’t I?
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The Americanisation identified here is something I’ve thought about most Irish fiction for a while now. The thing I wonder with Rooney is if her characters are like that on purpose or if her involvement in the same milieu as them has made her do it without as a default
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If we want the GAA to remain amateur then we need to accept the limitations that brings with it. The league is a preseason tournament and is approached accordingly. We can't ask these lads to go hell for leather January to July and then go straight back into club championship.
The GAA has got a huge problem with the hurling and football leagues as in you can't trust what you are watching. Managers pick games over others to prioritise. So much of this years league has been fake and supporters won't stay paying high admission prices for it.
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🤷🏻♂️
While we’ve yet to get to the point where any infrastructure here is named to reflect an Irish/Gaelic/indigenous figure/experience - I think it only right that signage for existing infrastructure is made bilingual to reflect our shared & diverse city.
@belfastcc
@deptinfra
@CnaG
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The Legacy Bill is going to pass through today and the Brits are trying to stick in a new clause that would retrospectively legalise even more of their war crimes in order to avoid such "reparations". No word from Fintan on his sons taking up arms as yet
👉 NEW -- Changing the law to avoid paying compensation
by
@AnneCadwallader
The UK government is seeking to retrospectively legalise the wrongful imprisonment-without-trial of up to 200 Irish people in the 1970s – removing their right to compensation
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4.69% of the street said no 👍
Again showing that the current process is not up to scratch. A 15% threshold is far too low, discontent and frustration caused these things to happen, making it a huge waste of rate payers resources.
Change the process so things like this don’t happen.
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@AaronBastani
Many older Brits are wrong believe it or not! And their wrongness shouldn’t be mollycoddled. That’s all well and good in the sagas but this isn’t Lord of the Rings, the only actual way for things to stop is for Britain to withdraw from Ireland
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Time for Abada to speak publicly after his backroom demands. Does he believe the fans he plays for to be antisemitic? If so, does he believe that due to their opposition to genocide in Palestine? If so, are we to infer that he supports said genocide? If so he should leave Celtic
Celtic have refuted claims from the Israel manager that elements of their support are anti-Semitic
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"It was the end of an era that I just happened to catch."
Shane MacGowan has died, aged 65. In a 1997 BBC documentary, he and his parents reflected on life in Carney Commons, County Tipperary, where he spent some of his childhood.
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Why a Gaelscoil student having a conversation in Irish shows teaching it is a failed experiment
Why Paul Mescal speaking Irish shows teaching it is 'a failed experiment.'
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You could do some rejigging and make it that bit more competitive but the main problem here is it being on TV and people expecting a spectacle from it. It's the GAA, we know championship is what's important, so why bother cribbing when prep games are of a lower quality?
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Nobody’s cultural identity is without inherent contradictions these days, but as far as Catholicism and Gaoluinn go, it isn’t the atheists that have a contradiction to reconcile. Any Catholic Gaeilgeoir is a member of an organisation that tried to kill the language to save itself
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If you'd like a taste of what's to come from the book, from the political side it largely expands upon the arguments made within this piece I did for Ebb after May's Assembly election
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People appear to be getting their copies of Neglect in the North of Ireland today after a bit of a delay with some booksellers. This wasn't a delay at all, we did it on purpose so that the hype for the book stretched into August and September. Not really obviously but enjoy!
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