About the Republic of Ireland

[tiswas]

is why does Ireland (or the Irish) buy British media programmes and newspapers. Is Gealic still being spoken.
I ask this question because I have noticed that papers like The News of the World do sell in Ireland, and I thought it was an independant nation.:confused:

[lilly555]

Hmmm, I believe that this is a question for soglad. :)

[soglad]

Hmmm, I believe that this is a question for soglad. :)

Yes!

Ireland's a joke. We fought 800 years against the English for "Freedom" only for them to work their way back into out country through companies and businesses. Our native language Gaeilge (gail-guh) has been completely eradicated except in rural places in Ireland where people (not willingly) speak it just to try and preserve it and other people to go there and try and learn it (paying of course). It is thought VERY poorly in our schools and I hated it, although I think it's a BEAUTIFUL language, it was beaten into me from a child in a very negative way.

As Yeats said himself "Romantic Ireland is dead and gone, it's with O' Leary in the grave".

:(

[tiswas]

But I think this media from Britian is also a conquest by the UK. Did you know Ireland's president was the few polititions who gave the German people sympathy for the 'death' of Hitler.

[pedsi]

The first thing I noticed when arriving in Dublin was the lit torch on the monument at the top of O'Conell st.

http://www.drakkart.com/photos_ire/dublin03.jpg

[soglad]

Go further down the street to the O'Connell bridge mate! There's Britannia there holding the staffs of fascism! All over the place! All built by the English!

:p

[seer]

I've just returned from 10 days in Erin. The Dublin taxi driver who picked me up had a Gaelic speaking radio station on and spoke Gaelic himself. I also noticed that there is a Gaelic speaking tv station.

I attended the Irish UFO conference in Carrick-on-Shannon and met several Gaelic speakers there.

It was my first visit to Ireland and I had half-expected some antagonism from locals due to my English accent. What I found was hospitality like I have never experienced before and fantastic people everywhere. What I also noticed was that the Irish are far less paranoid than in other countries like Australia and the UK.

One of the speakers, David Coggins, is a regressionist. During his presentation he showed a video of a regression session with a young (20-ish) English-speaking man in Wales. In trance the man spoke in fluent Gaelic that, according to an expert in a University (don't recall which one), was of a very ancient form of Gaelic with a specific dialect that he could trace to a very small region of Ireland. In waking life the man could only speak English.

[hagbard_celine]

The first thing I noticed when arriving in Dublin was the lit torch on the monument at the top of O'Conell st.

http://www.drakkart.com/photos_ire/dublin03.jpg


I'm not surprised. When these nations supposedly become independant, they don't really. All that is removed is the official trappings of foreign rule; the system just carries on in secret behind the scenes. Bertie Ahearn, the current Taoiseach, is a Bilderberger and he's taken the country a long way into the EU.

[soglad]

Bertie Ahearn, the current Taoiseach, is a Bilderberger and he's taken the country a long way into the EU.

I was shocked when you told me that at Glasto. I can't believe I didn't know that!

[hagbard_celine]

I was shocked when you told me that at Glasto. I can't believe I didn't know that!


It's rare these days that anyone becomes a head-of-govt without being invited to a Bildy shindig!