Siar agus Aniar 11 I went walking to Loch na Naomh – the Lake of the Saint. It is always windy there. The lake is on top of a granite hill between An Cheathrú Rua and Galway Bay in Conamara. Few trees, many bogs, low heather and gorse, wonderful wildflowers and orchids. The bedrock isContinue reading “Loch na Naomh”
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Names have meaning – Logainmneacha
Siar agus Aniar 10 In Canada, we know that language has politics built into it. The suppression of minoritized languages is an overtly political act. It is a situation that has been going on for millenia in Ireland. Some people try to keep language and politics separate. Is this really possible? I recently spent aContinue reading “Names have meaning – Logainmneacha”
An Gorta Mór : cuid a dó
Famine had a decisive impact on Irishsociety.This collective struggle, resulting from a kind of adversity that nowadays we have difficulty tofathom, still resonates today. Many books have been written in an effort to explain the primarycauses of the disaster: the origins of the late blight itself, the vulnerability of monoculture, thelandlord ownership system, etc. InContinue reading “An Gorta Mór : cuid a dó”
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