Emmett McIntyre's blog The Northern Ireland Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure has announced that the government will continue to fund the Irish Language Broadcast Fund (ILBF). The announcement comes in the context of the ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jun 20 2014 - 4:03pm - 0 comments
Emmett McIntyre's blog The Boston Globe in an article under the headline "Fulbright ... for cutting funding to an exchange program that brings Irish speaking students and academics to the United States. The Fulbright ... Commission helps native speaking students of the Irish language visit the rare American campuses where the language is taught and ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jun 11 2014 - 9:01pm - 0 comments
Emmett McIntyre's blog The following editorial appeared in Ireland's Leinster ... before and after the famine of 1847, it remained the language of the great mass of the people outside the Pale. Indeed, in the ... of the north, which had not some proportion of native Irish speakers. To this day a few native speakers are still to be found in such ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jun 6 2014 - 3:27am - 0 comments
Emmett McIntyre's blog The following editorial appeared in Ireland's Leinster ... before and after the famine of 1847, it remained the language of the great mass of the people outside the Pale. Indeed, in the ... of the north, which had not some proportion of native Irish speakers. To this day a few native speakers are still to be found in such ...
Emmett McIntyre - Dec 30 2016 - 4:31am - 0 comments
Eibhlin O'Neill's blog MPs in the House of Commons have approved plans to bolster the official status of the Irish language in Northern Ireland (Irish: Tuaisceart Éireann). The proposed law ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Oct 28 2022 - 1:40pm
Valerie Caine's blog Now that the railway summer season timetable is fully underway, supporters and ... Mountain Railway. New Go Explore travel cards are now available, featuring both railway and TT images, which offer unlimited travel ...
Valerie Caine - Mar 31 2015 - 10:31pm - 0 comments
Emmett McIntyre's blog Ireland’s President Michael Higgins has launched Seachtain na Gaeilge 2016, the world’s largest Language Festival, in a speech at the opening of the Conradh na Gaeilge ... optimistic appraisal of the current and future state of the Irish tongue. Referring to statistics which point to a strengthening of the ...
Emmett McIntyre - Mar 2 2016 - 9:56pm - 0 comments
Emmett McIntyre's blog In July 2016 we reported on the then latest salvo in the ... failure of the government to honor its responsibility to the Irish language. In an address to a group of language activists in Dublin, ... they should be able to do so.” Similar charges are now being hurled against the Northern Irish government. Apparently, ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jul 30 2019 - 4:18pm
Kernow Matters to Us's blog On 6th May, 2021 and as a result of receiving the votes of ... responsibility for funding to Cornwall Council, there are now rumours that the Conservative controlled Council will cut language funding ...
Kernow Matters to Us - May 14 2021 - 2:55pm
Niall McCarsten's blog The National Savings & Investment (NS&I) bank is the ... decision to discontinue offering bank services in the Welsh language. The move by the bank is seen by supporters of the tongue as a ... further comment. Disclaimer: This blog is provided for general informational purposes only. The opinions ...
Niall McCarsten - Oct 6 2015 - 9:28pm - 0 comments