Talbot Street, Dublin

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Scenes from today’s Lá Mór na Gaeilge protest in Dublin where up to 10,000 Irish speakers called for greater recognition and protection of the Irish language in the republic and Northern Ireland.

Previously: The Irish Joke

Pictures (and thanks): Ciarán Ó Braonáin

[Irish language commissioner Sean Ó Cuirreáin]

How many Government members showed up to see Sean Ó Cuirreáin appearing before an Oireachtas sub-commitee to deal with the 20 Year Strategy for the Irish Language today?

Answer: Níl aon.

Mr Ó Cuirreáin is to resign early from his post next month saying he can achieve “very little” for Irish speakers and Gaeltacht communities over the rest of his term because of government neglect.

He gave as an example a claim by the Revenue Commissioners that a third of all their press releases were being issued in two languages. But when his office checked, it emerged that they were being issued only in one language. And then, once a year, it was getting four months’ worth of press releases translated in one go…

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, as they say in Connemara.

Irish language ‘being driven to margins of society’ (Harry McGee, Irish Times)

(RTE)

Previously: Beal Out

[From left: Clodagh Ni Lionnain, Aodhan O Dea, Aoife Ni Mhaoinigh and Aindriu Mac An Ri]

A Enda Claus demo outside Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin this afternoon by Conradh Na Gaeilge and Union of Students in Ireland asking for “Language rights and equality for Irish speakers from the Government this Christmas”.

Meanwhile…..

Seamas O h Aolain taped up.

Look what your English has done.

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)