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Irish language activist and scholar Dr. Michael O ' Hickey ( 1860 – 1916 ) was dismissed in 1909 from his position as Professor of Irish, for his conduct in the controversy over Irish as a matriculation subject for the new National University of Ireland.
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Irish and language
Swift has his proposer further degrade the Irish by using language ordinarily reserved for animals.
Irish bua ( Classical Irish buadh ), Buaidheach, Welsh buddugoliaeth ), and that the correct spelling of the name in the British language is Boudica, pronounced ( the closest English equivalent to the vowel in the first syllable is the ow in " bow-and-arrow ").
These are the Goidelic Irish ( Gaeilge ) and Scottish Gaelic ( Gàidhlig ) descended from Old Irish, and the Brythonic Welsh and Breton descended from the British language.
There are 10, 469 Irish speakers in County Dublin attending the 31 Gaelscoils ( Irish language primary schools ) and 8 Gaelcholáiste ( Irish language secondary schools ).
Latin, the common language of the church, Old English, the language of the Angles and Saxons, Irish, spoken on the western coasts of Britain and in Ireland, Brythonic, ancestor of the Welsh language, spoken in large parts of western Britain, and Pictish, spoken in northern Britain.
The latter was composed using the rules of pronunciation of the Irish language and as such is extremely difficult for non-Irish speakers to read or perform.
Two Irish language radio stations Raidió na Life and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta both have studios in the city, and the online and DAB station Raidió Rí-Rá broadcasts from studios in the city.
Many other radio stations in the city broadcast at least an hour of Irish language programming per week.
Many Irish language agencies are also located in the capital.
The Irish language novel Mo Dhá Mhicí by Séamus Mac Annaidh is set in Enniskillen.
Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.
" Book Of Days " was featured prominently in the movie Far and Away, with an English-lyric version created for the film then replacing the old Irish language version on all pressings of the Shepherd Moons album from 1993 onwards.
A 1989 recording of Enya singing " Oíche Chiúin ", an Irish language version of " Silent Night ", has been reissued at least twice: on The Christmas EP ( which otherwise contains several non-holiday related previously issued recordings by Enya ) and the 1997 edition of the charity album A Very Special Christmas.
On the other hand, the Republic of Ireland has not been able to sign the Charter on behalf of the Irish language ( although a minority language ) as it is defined as the first official language of the state.
Irish and activist
* 1754 – Richard Martin, Irish animal rights activist ( d. 1834 )
* 1944 – Mairéad Corrigan, Irish activist, Nobel laureate
One ancestor was a leading activist in the Irish National Land League of Mayo and the Irish Republican Brotherhood ; an uncle, Sir Paget John Bourke, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II after a career as a judge in the Colonial Service ; while another relative was a Roman Catholic nun.
Subsequent holders of the title have included her successor as Irish president Mary McAleese, Professor John F. Larkin Q. C., Irish Human Rights Commissioner and prominent pro-choice activist Senator Ivana Bacik.
* 1919 – Máire Drumm, Irish civil rights activist ( d. 1976 )
Robinson used the prestige of the office to activist ends, placing emphasis during her presidency on the needs of developing countries, linking the history of the Great Irish Famine to today's nutrition, poverty and policy issues, attempting to create a bridge of partnership between developed and developing countries.
* 1948 – Robin Jackson, Irish activist ( d. 1998 )
* 1956 – Pat McGeown, Irish activist ( d. 1996 )
* May 22 – Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* November 21 – Michael Hogan, Irish activist shot during a Gaelic football match by the British army, who also killed 14 Irish supporters
Despite this the force's character had been fixed according to Irish nationalist activist and author Michael Farrell.
* Bridget, an Irish activist and Tony's girlfriend, in An American Tail
* Helena Moloney ( 1884 – 1967 ), Irish labor activist
* Gerard Ó Dochartaigh – Irish language activist for whom the local Gaelscoil ( Irish Language school ) is named.
David Patrick Bernard Norris ( born 1 July 1944 ) is an Irish scholar, independent Senator, and gay and civil rights activist.
He was an Irish language activist and member of Conradh na Gaeilge.
In addition to those mentioned in the text above, notable people born in Farnham include William Willett, campaigner for daylight saving time ( 1856 ); George Sturt, writer and social historian ( 1863 ); and Maud Gonne, feminist and activist in Irish politics ( 1866 ).
However, since the revival of interest in the Ulster dialects of Scots in Northern Ireland in the 1990s, new orthographies have been created, which, according to Irish language activist Aodán Mac Póilin, seek " to be as different to English ( and occasionally Scots ) as possible.
Aodán Mac Póilin, an Irish language activist, has described these revivalist orthographies as an attempt to make Ulster Scots an independent written language and to achieve official status.
John Mitchel (; 3 November 1815 – 20 March 1875 ) was an Irish nationalist activist, solicitor and political journalist.
Winners of the award have included: musician Peter Gabriel ( 2008 ), Nelson Mandela ( 2006 ), the Irish rock band U2 ( 2005 ), Mary Robinson and Hilda Morales Trujillo ( a Guatemalan women's rights activist ) ( 2004 ) and the author and public intellectual Václav Havel ( 2003 ).
Irish and scholar
* 1870 – Lambert McKenna, Irish priest and scholar ( d. 1956 )
Nineteenth-century Irish amateur scholar William Betham speculated that worship of Oannes is the origin of the cult of the Roman god Janus.
In 1766 the Irish antiquarian and Gaelic scholar Charles O ' Conor dismissed Ossian's authenticity in a new chapter Remarks on Mr. Mac Pherson's translation of Fingal and Temora that he added to the second edition of his seminal history.
* a designation for Cenn Fáelad mac Aillila ( died 679 ), an Irish scholar
* William Bedell Stanford ( 1911 – 1984 ), Irish classical scholar, senator, Chancellor of the University of Dublin
* Edmond Malone, Irish literary scholar
* Cenn Fáelad mac Aillila, Irish scholar, died 679
* July 16 – Lambert McKenna, Irish scholar ( d. 1956 )
** Douglas Hyde, Irish scholar and first president of Ireland ( d. 1949 )
* April 25 – Edmond Malone, Irish scholar ( b. 1741 )
* October 4 – Edmond Malone, Irish scholar ( d. 1812 )
* Cenn Fáelad mac Aillila, Irish dynast and scholar
The 12th-century scholar Ari Þorgilsson wrote in his book, Íslendingabók, that small bells, corresponding to those used by Irish monks, were found by the settlers.
O ' Mahony, who was a Celtic scholar, named his organization after the Fianna, the legendary band of Irish warriors led by Fionn mac Cumhaill ..
* Edmond Malone, Irish Shakespearean scholar and editor of the works of William Shakespeare
In the 9th century AD Irish glossary entitled Sanas Cormaic, famed bishop and scholar Cormac mac Cuilennáin makes mention of Manannan and his father Ler, who Cormac identifies with the sea:
* Flann Mainistrech ( died 1056 ), Irish scholar
* Douglas Hyde ( 1860 – 1949 )-an Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945.
William Henry Grattan Flood, an Irish music scholar, proposed the theory that the name " uilleann " came from the Irish word for " elbow ".
Aldhelm received his first education in the school of an Irish scholar and monk, Máeldub ( also Maildubh, Maildulf or Meldun ) ( died c. 675 ), who had settled in the British stronghold of Bladon ( or Bladow ) on the site of the town called Mailduberi, Maldubesburg, Meldunesburg, etc., and finally Malmesbury, after him.
* Joseph Scottus ( died near 800 ), Irish deacon, scholar, diplomat, poet, and ecclesiastic
Douglas Hyde (; 17 January 1860 – 12 July 1949 ), known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn (" The Pleasant Little Branch "), was an Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945.
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