Stormont power sharing talks

blanch152 wrote: »

I find it difficult to take this post seriously when the Sinn Fein shop is selling Provisional IRA badges.

What does need to be done, and we in the South are as guilty as anyone, is that we need to set a lead by embracing the British aspects of our heritage and culture and acknowledging the positive aspects of the British influence on us. After all, we are the ones who are supposed to be attempting to persuade people of the inclusive nature of a united Ireland.

Where you living on another planet during the 1916 and WW1 commemorations?

Seriously, there needs to be some realism here.

We do recognise the heritage left behind by the British and the good they did. But they have be called out for the bad stuff too.

And you are the one going on about 'parity of esteem' and 'inclusiveness' but you cannot yet handle or recognise the simple fact that SF have never seen anything wrong about the goals of the IRA. Nor their supporters.

Although I see you are no longer using the silly 'terrorist' tag so that maybe a start.

Junkyard Tom

Jep Gambardella wrote: »

One of those commonalities is a shared obsession with defining yourself in negative terms (i.e. what you're not)..

That is the preserve of union/loyalists. 40% of people in the north describe themselves as 'British Only' despite not having lived in Britain for centuries, that is nothing more than asserting that you're not Irish.

Professor Moriarty

blanch152 wrote: »

Yes, Ulster Irish as a distinct dialect died out in the 1970s. So there is no preservation involved and the promotion is an expression of a denial of their British heritage.

The Irish Language Movement up north revived the language using mostly a Donegal dialect in an expression of non-Britishness, a negative origin for the move for an Irish Language Act today. All that is said by nationalists about Ulster-Scots today could equally have been said by unionists about the state of the Irish Language in the North during the 1970s.

Could the Unionists have called Irish a dialect? Seriously?

Why should Nationalists not assert their Irish heritage? Do Unionists not assert their British heritage? Isn't that assertion an expression of non-Irishness?

Unionists have very visible ways of expressing their heritage. Much more so than Nationalists. Why would you deny Nationalists this relatively unobtrusive expression of identity?

FrancieBrady wrote: »

None of the other parties that support an Irish Language Act (The SDLP, Alliance, SF) have a problem with recognising the place of Ulster Scots.

I would say that one of the continuing tragedies of Ireland as a whole is not recognising pure unadulterated bigotry and supremacy when it rears it's head.

Anyone could see the effort made by nationalists on this island to be inclusive around 1916, and commemorations of WW1 for instance.
What did we get from the the leader of the DUP = belligerence and intolerance.

QED for anyone who wants to see.

I find it difficult to take this post seriously when the Sinn Fein shop is selling Provisional IRA badges.

What does need to be done, and we in the South are as guilty as anyone, is that we need to set a lead by embracing the British aspects of our heritage and culture and acknowledging the positive aspects of the British influence on us. After all, we are the ones who are supposed to be attempting to persuade people of the inclusive nature of a united Ireland.

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Do you think that the preservation and promotion of Irish is intended to be negative?

Yes, Ulster Irish as a distinct dialect died out in the 1970s. So there is no preservation involved and the promotion is an expression of a denial of their British heritage.

The Irish Language Movement up north revived the language using mostly a Donegal dialect in an expression of non-Britishness, a negative origin for the move for an Irish Language Act today. All that is said by nationalists about Ulster-Scots today could equally have been said by unionists about the state of the Irish Language in the North during the 1970s.

Professor Moriarty

Jep Gambardella wrote: »

The tragedy of Northern Irish politics is that the two communities up there have more in common with each other than they do with anyone else, but are so consumed with mutual enmity that they're incapable of seeing this.

One of those commonalities is a shared obsession with defining yourself in negative terms (i.e. what you're not)..

Do you think that the preservation and promotion of Irish is intended to be negative?

Jep Gambardella wrote: »

The tragedy of Northern Irish politics is that the two communities up there have more in common with each other than they do with anyone else, but are so consumed with mutual enmity that they're incapable of seeing this.

One of those commonalities is a shared obsession with defining yourself in negative terms (i.e. what you're not)..

None of the other parties that support an Irish Language Act (The SDLP, Alliance, SF) have a problem with recognising the place of Ulster Scots.

I would say that one of the continuing tragedies of Ireland as a whole is not recognising pure unadulterated bigotry and supremacy when it rears it's head.

Anyone could see the effort made by nationalists on this island to be inclusive around 1916, and commemorations of WW1 for instance.
What did we get from the the leader of the DUP = belligerence and intolerance.

QED for anyone who wants to see.

Chips Lovell

The tragedy of Northern Irish politics is that the two communities up there have more in common with each other than they do with anyone else, but are so consumed with mutual enmity that they're incapable of seeing this.

One of those commonalities is a shared obsession with defining yourself in negative terms (i.e. what you're not)..

Professor Moriarty

LeinsterDub wrote: »

Irish ==Ulster Scots.

How have i devalued or took the piss out of Irish . Am i opposed to Irish culture now?

To paraphrase: Náisiún gan teanga, náisiún gan anam. How can you equate the significance of a language that represents a core element of cultural and national expression with a dialect? Especially in the context of centuries of cultural, national and religious oppression. Can you not see how that would matter to a community trying to reassert itself? Can you not see how demeaning it is to compare that community's language to a dialect? Should it be such a major problem for the other community to recognise the importance of that language in the spirit of reconciliation?

blanch152 wrote: »

Oh no, if it was left to me there would be no Act either North or South, but it is not left to me.

What I am saying looking in is that the only possible solution to the usual problem of two entrenched sectarian sides in the North squabbling over something that is rich in symbolism but poor in actual significance is an umbrella Minority Languages Act that deals with both resurrected languages/dialects.

Nothing inconsistent to my usual plague on both their houses.

Giving into unionist bigotry has never done this country any good. So a plague on unionist bigotry (religious and cultural) and supremacy ( religious and cultural) imo.

Just look at how normal things could be (e.g. this years marching) when you face it down.

steddyeddy wrote: »

And there's the issue. Ulster Scots isn't an expression of culture. It's a rebuttal to Irtish culture.

In exactly the same way, the revival of Irish in the North (of what was then a dead language with the Ulster dialect having died out) was a rebuttal of British culture.

It is terrible to see two sides expressing their culture in such negative terms.

steddyeddy

blanch152 wrote: »

A Minority Languages Act doesn't have to give the same resources to each language, where did anyone say it had to? The issue is the mutual recognition of each culture under the same united umbrella rather than a partisan sectarian division of different Acts.

And there's the issue. Ulster Scots isn't an expression of culture. It's a rebuttal to Irtish culture.

tomwaterford wrote: »

So you want a act (which you don't want )....to slightly discrimate against one thing Vs another which you want to include both in the act????

That's like something a school child would dream up tbh

Oh no, if it was left to me there would be no Act either North or South, but it is not left to me.

What I am saying looking in is that the only possible solution to the usual problem of two entrenched sectarian sides in the North squabbling over something that is rich in symbolism but poor in actual significance is an umbrella Minority Languages Act that deals with both resurrected languages/dialects.

Nothing inconsistent to my usual plague on both their houses.

LeinsterDub

tomwaterford wrote: »

It's only pushed as a means to devalue and take the piss outta the Irish language,by those opposed to Irish culture

Irish ==Ulster Scots.

How have i devalued or took the piss out of Irish . Am i opposed to Irish culture now?

blanch152 wrote: »

A Minority Languages Act doesn't have to give the same resources to each language, where did anyone say it had to? The issue is the mutual recognition of each culture under the same united umbrella rather than a partisan sectarian division of different Acts.

Like the flying of both flags was a mutual recognition of both identities? How did that one go?
They (the DUP and it's rabble) wrecked the joint, is how it went.

The issue is not mutual recognition, it is the constant erection of roadblocks to rights already agreed to and rights available to every other citizen in the UK and Ireland.

There was no mention of Ulster Scots in 2007 by the party leader but plenty of 'partisan' triumphalism about Unionism and an attempt to describe this as being 'sponsored by SF' and to be defeated because of that.

Please stop with the disingenuous portrayal of this as being anything to do with the DUP seeking mutual recognition.

blanch152 wrote: »

A Minority Languages Act doesn't have to give the same resources to each language, where did anyone say it had to? The issue is the mutual recognition of each culture under the same united umbrella rather than a partisan sectarian division of different Acts.

So you want a act (which you don't want

)....to slightly discrimate against one thing Vs another which you want to include both in the act????

That's like something a school child would dream up tbh

blanch152 wrote: »

You keep missing the point of the word "significant". I didn't say the Irish language had no place, I said it have no significant place.

So what's the harm in having an Irish language act so??

You seem dead against this earlier dispite claiming to like Irish culture....seems like you want to butter both sides of your toast?

blanch152 wrote: »

Because the revival of Ulster Scots is some twenty years behind the revival of Irish. The only difference between them is that one revival of a dead language began before the other.

The census of 1911 iirc showed 1/3 Irish language speakers on shankil road Belfast
(Have fun finding any reference to Ulster Scots then)

The Ulster Scots is a part of English with funny spelling,and different words (like how we say say lack for girlfriend in Waterford)
Do you think we can start up a new language for Waterford??

The Irish language is a stand alone language....the fact you seem to wish to spend your day attempting to convince people there the same thing,while wailing against all the evidence that Irish is irrelevant to modern culture is baffling

Perhaps the only place where I've seen anything remotely approaching Ulster Scots in day to day use is 4chan..,,...but you've made strange allies there

blanch152 wrote: »

Of course they are part of our culture, just as other minority pursuits are part of our culture. What we are discussing is the significance of that part. I can assert fairly confidently that the Irish language forms a minor part of modern-day Irish culture, but occupies a significant part of Irish heritage. Pretty accurate representation of the facts.

It's a minor part of the culture to 'you'. And as I have said to you earlier, 'so what' if that is what you feel about it.

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Well then, there isn't parity.
Ulster Scots will need it's own dedicated resources and it's own act.
No objection to that here.

What I do object to, and the point you won't adress, and the reason the Stormont power sharing executive is suspended is the continual blocking of rights that every other party wants by misuse of petitions of concern and pure stubbornness. i.e. the Never Never Never culture that we have seen since the GFA.

A party pretending to be democrats. The DUP.

Time is up on the charade, and rightly so.

A Minority Languages Act doesn't have to give the same resources to each language, where did anyone say it had to? The issue is the mutual recognition of each culture under the same united umbrella rather than a partisan sectarian division of different Acts.

blanch152 wrote: »

Because the revival of Ulster Scots is some twenty years behind the revival of Irish. The only difference between them is that one revival of a dead language began before the other.

Well then, there isn't parity.
Ulster Scots will need it's own dedicated resources and it's own act.
No objection to that here.

What I do object to, and the point you won't adress, and the reason the Stormont power sharing executive is suspended is the continual blocking of rights that every other party wants by misuse of petitions of concern and pure stubbornness. i.e. the Never Never Never culture that we have seen since the GFA.

A party pretending to be democrats. The DUP.

Time is up on the charade, and rightly so.

tomwaterford wrote: »

If the caps fits it's hardly a glib.insult

Hardly a dead language,when those claiming fluency increased,Iñ.the last ceñsus in the free state
When gaelscoils are booked out years in advance??,

It's a, stunning language,and no reason fluency of it shouldn't be encouraged,had great fun backpacking with other Irish and learning Spanish complemented via it

The view that it has no place is actually outdated nowadays,

You keep missing the point of the word "significant". I didn't say the Irish language had no place, I said it have no significant place.

FrancieBrady wrote: »

It is not about what YOU want, or how you feel about Irish.

And you must be totally unaware of the surge in interest in the Irish language.
I don't think all those kids attending Gael Scoilenna would take kindly to being described as part of our heritage and not a living breathing part of our culture.

Of course they are part of our culture, just as other minority pursuits are part of our culture. What we are discussing is the significance of that part. I can assert fairly confidently that the Irish language forms a minor part of modern-day Irish culture, but occupies a significant part of Irish heritage. Pretty accurate representation of the facts.

tomwaterford wrote: »

Why prior to the peace process has Ulster Scots not appeared as a.language option on a census

Its the ultimate in unethical dishonesty to eqate the two,
It's only pushed as a means to devalue and take the piss outta the Irish language,by those opposed to Irish culture

Because the revival of Ulster Scots is some twenty years behind the revival of Irish. The only difference between them is that one revival of a dead language began before the other.

blanch152 wrote: »

I speak better Irish than most, doesn't stop from thinking that it is a dead language and not a fundamental part of the modern Irish culture. As I have already said, the language is a significant part of our history and our heritage, but it has no significant role today, either North or South.

P.S. Adding a smilie to a glib insult doesn't make it any less of a glib insult.

If the caps fits it's hardly a glib.insult

Hardly a dead language,when those claiming fluency increased,Iñ.the last ceñsus in the free state
When gaelscoils are booked out years in advance??,

It's a, stunning language,and no reason fluency of it shouldn't be encouraged,had great fun backpacking with other Irish and learning Spanish complemented via it

The view that it has no place is actually outdated nowadays,

LeinsterDub wrote: »

Dilutions of your request is basically how democracy works. When a party is in coalition they'll need to dilute their policies. Even when in over all control factions and stakeholders within and outside of the party will lead to dilution.

I'm aware of some unionist attitude to Irish or even anything Irish but surely a language act can protect Irish? I don't see how accepting U.S as on a par affects Irish. Let the baby have it's bottle. The smart play, the play to win over unionist to a UI is to be seen to be flexible and accepting. Not petty and sectarian.

This has been agreed already.
It is about the continued blocking of rights by the DUP.

blanch152 wrote: »

Hold on, who has said that the most significant part of Irish culture is the language? I would strongly disagree.

Sport and music are much more significant parts of Irish culture than the language, not just for their strength but also their distinctiveness. I would also think that the Irish generousity of spirit and the sense of humour are much more significant aspects of the Irish culture than the language.

Culture is a living organic thing, changing all the time.

Heritage is dead culture, the culture of the past. The language is a significant part of our heritage, but not of our culture.

It is not about what YOU want, or how you feel about Irish.

And you must be totally unaware of the surge in interest in the Irish language.
I don't think all those kids attending Gael Scoilenna would take kindly to being described as part of our heritage and not a living breathing part of our culture.

blanch152 wrote: »

What is wrong with parity of esteem between them? It is the ultimate in triumphalism and cultural bigotry to assert that our resurrected few words are a language while their resurrected few words are a dialect.

Why prior to the peace process has Ulster Scots not appeared as a.language option on a census

Its the ultimate in unethical dishonesty to eqate the two,
It's only pushed as a means to devalue and take the piss outta the Irish language,by those opposed to Irish culture

tomwaterford wrote: »

And yet you dislike/ignorant of the irish language (don't see for a act to protect it FFS,)one of the most fundamental parts of a culture anywhere

Reminds me of a sunday world,me fein mindset tbh

I speak better Irish than most, doesn't stop from thinking that it is a dead language and not a fundamental part of the modern Irish culture. As I have already said, the language is a significant part of our history and our heritage, but it has no significant role today, either North or South.

P.S. Adding a smilie to a glib insult doesn't make it any less of a glib insult.