Culture Thousands march through Belfast demanding Irish language equality - Irish language activists An Dream Dearg (the Red Group) want Northern Ireland to pass an Irish Language Act

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Thousands march through Belfast demanding Irish language equality​

The march, which was organized by the Irish-language campaign group An Dream Dearg (the red group), has been described as the biggest language rally "in a generation".​


IrishCentral Staff
@IrishCentral
May 22, 2022

Thousands of red-clad Irish-language advocates marched through Belfast on Saturday afternoon to call for protections for the Irish language in Northern Ireland.

The march, which was organized by the Irish-language campaign group An Dream Dearg (the red group), has been described as the biggest language rally "in a generation".

The rally began at Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich in West Belfast at 1 p.m. on Saturday and made its way to Belfast City Hall, where speakers and singers addressed the 7,000-strong crowd.

Around 25 buses brought demonstrators to the event from across the island of Ireland.

The An Lá Dearg (the red day) protest saw large crowds marching through the city demanding "language recognition, respect, and rights" in addition to calling on the UK Government and the Northern Ireland Executive to implement the Irish Language Act as had previously been promised in the New Decade New Approach deal in 2020.

The act promised to introduce an Irish-language strategy in addition to a commitment to an Ulster-Scots language, heritage, and culture plan as part of an agreement that helped restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland after a three-year impasse.

However, the language act has yet to be implemented amid continued political contention over the issue.

Conchúr Ó Muadaigh, a spokesperson for An Dream Dearg, told the Irish Independent that the act was "long overdue".

"An Dream Dearg has built a grassroots movement that has pushed the Irish language from the margins to the very center of political and civic discourse both here and internationally, a movement that has spoken truth to power and ensured our community would no longer be treated as second class citizens, marginalized or excluded. Those days are gone for good," Ó Muadaigh told the Irish Independent.

"The Irish Language Act is long, long overdue. Our community cannot and must not be made to wait any longer for the same language rights enjoyed by citizens across these islands."

Ó Muadaigh said the group was "blown away" by the level of support at Saturday's demonstration and described it as the "biggest Irish-language demonstration of a generation".

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Five-year-old Dáithí Mac Gabhann was among those who addressed the crowd at City Hall, while other speakers included Irish-language youth worker Katie Irvine and Dónal Ó Cnaimhsí from the Gaoth Dobhair Gaeltacht in Co Donegal.

Protesters chanted slogans such as "tír gan teanga, tír gan anam" (a country without a language is a country without a soul) and called for the implementation of the Irish-language act.

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A Nationalist march by any other name still gets the hooknoses a-kevetching, and its becoming more common every day.

 
"The act promised to introduce an Irish-language strategy in addition to a commitment to an Ulster-Scots language, heritage, and culture plan"


Just say "waste money", you'll use up less space.
 
Let's meet in the middle. You keep your language but standardize the spelling so the rest of us know how to read it. Fucking "craiearch ma guian" and the like.
 
TowinKarz said:
"The act promised to introduce an Irish-language strategy in addition to a commitment to an Ulster-Scots language, heritage, and culture plan"


Just say "waste money", you'll use up less space.
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Ulster Scots isn't even a language, it's a dialect of English. If you speak English then congratulations, you're automatically bilingual without even knowing it.
 
Chaos Theorist said:
*capital city is slowly colonized by darkies and turkroaches*
Ireland is just England with more based mythology at this point
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Ireland is worse than England. England dominated Ireland, so the Irish fought a civil war for independence and in less than 100 years free Ireland chose suicide. Ireland and the Irish recovered from Cromwell, they won't recover from their current predicament. Imagine having a nationalist organization that is globalist, totally cucked.

round robin said:
Lol, not even the Irish speak Irish. Just give up on your dead language, faggots.
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Being Welsh I find the language BS so laughable. Weebs learn Japanese and due to K-pop people are learning Korean. It turns out that if you produce content that people actually want to consume, they will actually put in effort and learn the language. Ireland/Wales seethe and pass all these stupid laws to prop up the language, but give zero incentive to actually learn the damn thing. Oh boy S4C just dropped some new, shitty soap now I'm really invested in learning Welsh, said no-one. I fucking despise K-pop and the industry behind it, but it does a great job showing how laughable these laws are at getting people to speak a language. If they just invested in producing content people wanted in Irish/Welsh they would have people actively learning like the kpop stans. Hardly anyone I know speaks Welsh, most Welsh speakers speak primarily in English because everyone else does.
 
irish language larpers are on a par with fucking 'enbies'
'lets make this dead language with like 5000 speakers an official language'

'but won't that be a waste of resources having to translate every government document into it?'

'no because we'll use even more resources to make schools irish language only so half our population can't speak to the other half without a translator'

'irish is a dead language'

'because you killed it reeee'

we should unironically revoke home rule and genocide any spud wog who even thinks the word 'independance' in real life, not in minecraft
 
The Final Troondown said:
we should unironically revoke home rule and genocide any spud wog who even thinks the word 'independance' in real life, not in minecraft
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The bogtrotters know how easy it would be for us to level Dublin so they do as they're told for the most part.
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That picture is about 75% of the Ir*sh Air Corps.
>b-b-but muh provos
Too busy dealing drugs and being btfo by Albanian criminals. The only reason the island of Ireland isn't formally under British rule is because Britain hasn't got round to it yet.
 
Erika Furudo said:
Ireland is worse than England. England dominated Ireland, so the Irish fought a civil war for independence and in less than 100 years free Ireland chose suicide. Ireland and the Irish recovered from Cromwell, they won't recover from their current predicament. Imagine having a nationalist organization that is globalist, totally cucked.


Being Welsh I find the language BS so laughable. Weebs learn Japanese and due to K-pop people are learning Korean. It turns out that if you produce content that people actually want to consume, they will actually put in effort and learn the language. Ireland/Wales seethe and pass all these stupid laws to prop up the language, but give zero incentive to actually learn the damn thing. Oh boy S4C just dropped some new, shitty soap now I'm really invested in learning Welsh, said no-one. I fucking despise K-pop and the industry behind it, but it does a great job showing how laughable these laws are at getting people to speak a language. If they just invested in producing content people wanted in Irish/Welsh they would have people actively learning like the kpop stans. Hardly anyone I know speaks Welsh, most Welsh speakers speak primarily in English because everyone else does.
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People will learn and a speak a language if they feel the need to. A perfect example of this is when a computational linguist taught his son Klingon (a fictional language from Star Trek) while his wife taught him English. As he got older he began rejecting Klingon because he could use English with more people. Ultimately the son refused to use Klingon when he got older. Learning a language for the sake of learning it with no other purpose will never succeed in getting other people to utilize it because as you said there is no incentive to really use a language like Welsh in everyday life. The ultimate move to ensure Welsh being used by everyone would be to make it the only allowed language but obviously that would never happen given the current circumstances of Wales.
 
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