Bilingual road signage

(2) The following provisions shall apply to a sign in the Irish and English languages placed at any location by a public body: (a) the text in the Irish language shall appear first, (b) the text in the Irish language shall not be less prominent, visible, or legible than the text in the English language, (c) the lettering of the text in the Irish language shall not be smaller in size than the lettering of the text in the English language, (d) the text in the Irish language shall communica...

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South Africa and Genocide

Genocide Watch is an organisation which seeks to raise public awareness and influence public policy on actually occurring or potential genocide. According to its mission statement it exist to "predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide and other forms of mass murder". On the organisations most recently updated file on countries at risk of genocide, politicide or mass atrocities there are 37 ethnic groups . The are 8 ethnic groups currently identified to be in so-called "stage 7", which mean...

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A Dialogue on the Nation-State

The actors involved herein are an aged and sagacious Professor who teaches philosophy, physics and naturalism at an old and prestigious university. The second actor is the Little One who is a young and beautiful girl of 12 who often visits the professor for conversations, through which she tries to satiate her insatiable curiosity of life and the Universe; she is a clever one, with a bright future ahead of her. The Professor and Little One have arranged to meet under a large window in an ...

Cú Chulainn in the GPO: The Mythic Imagination of Patrick Pearse

‘But where can we draw water,’Said Pearse to Connolly,‘When all the wells are parched away?O plain as plain can be There’s nothing but our own red blood Can make a right Rose Tree.’ —W. B. Yeats On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, while all Europe was mobilized for the first of its terrible civil wars, Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and several hundred “militia men” from the Irish Citizen Army and the Nationalist Volunteers commandeered the General Post Office on Dublin’s O’Connell (then S...

The World Cup – World Class Distraction!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmcikaJkr5s This young man makes some valid points! Just imagine if the present soccer-mania was transferred into something useful; the possibilities would be endless.. but when this distraction has  come to an end, as all tatty amusements must, it will be inevitably back to the same old routine, the same old story.. .. anything else on tv..?

Thomas Jefferson on the Indelible Lines Between Human Forms

Thousands of breeding generations have shaped the forms of humanity in such a fashion that we must live segregated, for all our sakes. It is surely self-evident that if the trajectory which we are presently traversing is not perturbed then, as many have commented in some way or another, the future which waits for posterity is foreboding. Thomas Jefferson sums this up: "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people [Negroes] are to be free. Nor is it less certain...

The Old Dublin versus the new Dublin – Spot the Difference(s)

'Old' Dublin - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tFSiPzziWI Dublin in 1991. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoIeQ0MlF6E --VS-- New Dublin - symbol of the results of unrestrained globalisation; very 'cosmopolitan', gigantic & ultra modern in terms of  architecture, viciously urbanized, zero community, a consumer haven - in other words an accurate representation of modern Ireland. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvlUEI4CxhE An American girl points out the obvious (of which most Ir...

A Dialogue with the Little One on Racism and Juvenile Liberals

The actors involved herein are an aged and sagacious Professor who teaches philosophy, physics and naturalism at an old and prestigious university. The second actor is the Little One who is a young and beautiful girl of 12 who often visits the professor for conversations, through which she tries to satiate her insatiable curiosity of life and the Universe; she is a clever one, with a bright future ahead of her. The season is summer and the Professor is sitting on a fallen oak tree by a stre...