Stormont Minister drops Irish Language Act - News reports

[teachill]

BIGOT POOTS.

[musicman45805]

I am an American of Irish descent learning Irish. I will return to the land of my ancestors and help in the rebirth of Irish as the widely spoken language it should be. A beautiful language and an integral part of a beautiful culture. Support the language.

[monogirl3]

it's the same old rubbish from them lot. anything thats deemed a political threat is suppressed. seige mentality strikes again. their fear will not let them embrace anything outside their own ideology even if there is a democratic mandate for it.

i hate our segregated education system but i'm glad i went to a catholic school who valued the language and got a chance explore it. if it were up to this lot all forms of irish cultural expression would be outlawed like the "good old days".

[Glgebhrste]

Dá mbíodh an sloinne "Poots" agam, is maith an seans go rachainn-se as mo mheabhair chomh maith! agus go ndéanfainn rudaí craiceáilte agus seafóideach mar sin freisin. Tá cosúlacht aige leis an torann a dhéanann an ulchabhán reilige, "POOOOOTS POOOOOOTS, POOOOOOTS". .... an tAire bocht!!! Is ara thuismitheoirí atá an cáipéis mar is gnách dar liomsa.

[firebird162]

wow what a tragedy. i mean, language i guess could be considered the backbone of culture. im sorry the gentleman didnt see that.

by the way, isnt english technically a 'foreign' language in ireland (sorry, im american)?

[drakovampire]

I live in America and my wife and I have been learning Irish language, but I still can not spell Irish words yet. I can speak a little of it though. I believe that the Brits should go back to their homes and leave Ireland to the Irish. My grandfather was Irish, but he moved here to America for reasons I do not know. He died before I was born. My heart and soul belongs to Ireland.

[MrGnaes]

this is absolutely ridiculous. northern IRELAND, i stress ireland, cant have an irish language act passed? perhaps edwin poots sees no need for an irish language act because he is biased towards unionist interests? maybe just maybe thats it (sarcasm) rascism carried out publicly by the anglophile northern irish state

[DativeCase]

What does "Broken Irish is better than clever English" mean?

[cobrolchain2]

It was a motto of the Gaelic revival for learners of Irish who weren't confident about their ability to speak the language. It was a way of encouraging to use what they had, even if they made mistakes.

[DativeCase]

Oh I get it. There's a similar attitude here in Wales that it's better to speak Welsh badly than not to speak it at all.

So have there been any Irish language acts at all then? Because in Wales we've had quite a few Welsh language acts now.

[cobrolchain2]

There's an Official Languages Act in the South for Irish. There's nothing in the North though, aside from the like of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Language, which the London government has made clear it will ignore if it contradicts any 'native' law.

[kealyc]

Irish language teaching in NI belongs in the private sector. NI should not be investing public money in it, it should be investing public money in jobs, infrastructure, and tax cuts to companies and taxpayers over the next years. That comes first. Jobs takes people's minds off politics.

And I am an Irish catholic.

[cobrolchain2]

Irish speakers contribute to the public purse, and there's no sane argument against investing in education.

[bacabu30]

It's only a matter of time...

[bacabu30]

Many Unionists are 'unpersuaded' because they are just absolutely bigoted and fearful of allowing the natives give more status to their indigenous language. The colonizer spirit lives on in Northern Ireland and Unionists continue to try to oppress Nationalists (original natives), even in subtle and invidious ways. Well, their days are numbered...Béidh ár lá linn.

[sarsirl]

While the Irish language is nowhere near dead, even if it was, there is no reaon that it cannot be revived. As the saying goes, "Beatha teanga í a labhairt."

[sebreathnach]

When the Statutes of Kilkenny were enacted by Irish bishops in 1366/7, the Gaelic language was dead. At that time the 'fior-Ghael' were all classified as 'heretics' and , therefore, killable with impunity. Nothing changed until the Reformation, when the Brits threw off Rome. Only then did the RCC look to the heretic Irish to make war on them....

[bacabu30]

Haven't a clue what you're on about. The Irish language was still spoken by two thirds of the population at the time of the Famine in the 1840's and most of these were Gaelic monoglots actually.

[sebreathnach]

If you haven't a clue, then why bother!!!

[bacabu30]

why bother what?

[Seamus616]

Is mór an náire é an rud seo. Tá gá leis Acht na Gaeilge, agus bhí sé de dhualgas ar Poots!

[TithenPen]

Yo!

Wee poots!

He was in my school today!

the genius.

[lughlamh]

that ignorant bollox beside poots

[lughlamh]

yes, let's speak English, the language of peace and tolerance...

[sebreathnach]

All the Catholic Church wants is the children, preferably without Gaelic but with enough English to service the missionary church. That's why Cardinal Brady got his Red Hat and what the IRA worked so hard for... Jerry, you can have all the Irish Language Acts you like -- none of them will induce either Poles or Holy Romans or Irish to speak Gaelic.....

[sebreathnach]

What it means is that a native Pagan cannot teach Gaelic , the First Official language, because he is an atheist -- which is why the RC church suppressed the language , the Druids and Paganism in the first place. The RC church sold Ireland to England (Laudabiliter) on the basis that the English would teach them English and Christianity....

[sebreathnach]

Last year the EU took a legal case against the RCC in Ireland for refusing to allow 'atheists' to teach in 90% of Ireland's schools. Barusso dropped the case in April. So, now, no native pagan can lecture in Gaelic in an Irish school -- all because of Caesar's Messiah's Vicar and Barusso!

[sebreathnach]

By the way, the Irish Republic have managed to drop Irish long ago; that they stuck in in the Consittuiton or call it the first or official language is the Irish way of telling an Irish joke... one of those religiously leprechaun jokes that inflict nothing but pain!

[Seamus616]

Go dtuga Dia ciall duit, a Shasanach.

Mar is léir an raiméis atá á labhairt agat

[sebreathnach]

At least NI has not heard so much of the off-the-wall rubish being spoken about the Irish and the Irish language at Notre Dame. I defy anyone to reply to any of all the websites associated with Notre Dame. They are so afraid of free speech , especially about the Irish language, that one can hardly believe it...

[sebreathnach]

I lectured in an unmentionable third level institution in the Republic of Ireland for some 20 years. The people who governed it , with the possible exception of 4 persons, could not spell their name in Irish. Very , very, very few -- if any -- lecturers could speak colloquial Irish. And if it wasn't for the Protestants, no one would have even heard of it....

[ccancionmar]

Not for long, not for long!!

[vickskedoedoe]

Ah! It's horrid, but it is too late!

There should've been such an act in 1800, hm.

[sebreathnach]

Maybe in the 14th century.. but then the Papacy had set its face against the language of the heretic. Although it was an opportunity for the Cultural Minister to show that it was the Protestant intellectuals who had developed Gaelic -- one which he pitiably missed. Nevertheless, in the Republic no one speaks Gaelic in the Universities....

[twinklearse]

IS MISE DIÒLTAS NA ÈIREANNACH! Fuck dem mps another fucking excuse and most of the population of d north wants the chance to go to all Irish schools and they cant!! well POG MÒ HÒAN STUPID BASTARDS!!

[MatIrish]

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