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Irish language spoken for first time at British Prime Minister's Questions in Westminster

Claire Hanna, the leader of Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), marked St. Patrick's Day and Seachtain na Gaeilge by speaking in the Irish language while addressing British ...
BBC

Hostility to Irish language 'does unionism no favours'

Pól Deeds said "every word spoken against the Irish language" could be seen as "another blow struck in the cause of Irish unification" Hostility towards the Irish language is not doing unionism "any ...

Pól Deeds says Irish language can reflect 'many other identities including a British one'

Pól Deeds said he ‘sees no need’ not to give regard to his counterparts recommendations ...
The Irish Times

Ireland’s power class has a colonial attitude to the Irish language

The State’s perspective on the Irish language and its speakers has become indistinguishable from that of British colonial rule. In the latter days of pre-independent Ireland, the British could ...