A busy bee

. I’m keeping very busy at the moment so excuse the hiatus. If you get the feeling that every second post I write begins with some variation on that message rest assured I get the same feeling. Maybe I should start a “hiatus” label. I am nearly finished my Masters and I am finding this [...]

Jazz Biscuit

Jazz Biscuit

What’s Irish anyway? St. Patrick’s Day?

“Let us reduce Ireland then in this new, expansive, age. Let us reduce it to its barest shell. Imagine an Ireland without ‘compulsory’ Irish, without a Gaeltacht, without Brú na Bóinne and then knock down the Norman castles and flatten every Celtic cross, hole every currach and use the canvasses of Jack B. Yeats as [...]

Brining the language fada along the road

Bhreathnaigh mé ar chlár nua Des Bishop aréir, “In the name of the Fada”. Mar a dúirt Ryan Tubridy ar maidin, tá an cuma air go ndéanfaidh Des an rud céanna don teanga is a rinne Jamie Oliver don bhia scoile sa Bhreatain. Cosúlacht eile idir an dhá rud seo ná nár chóir go mbeadh [...]

A rian fágtha acu!

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