{"id":517,"date":"2007-10-18T16:33:52","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T15:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/18\/irish-in-stormont\/"},"modified":"2007-10-18T16:33:52","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T15:33:52","slug":"irish-in-stormont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Use of Irish in Northern Island Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motion to ban the use of the Irish language in the Northern Ireland Assembly was narrowly defeated by just two votes this week, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurolang.net\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2966&#038;Itemid=1&#038;lang=en\">Eurolang<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Ulster Unionist Party had complained that members of Sinn Fein were using Irish in speeches, and wanted to put a stop to it. Many unionists are apparently uncomfortable with any recognition of the Irish language in Northern Ireland as they fear &#8220;Britishness might be undermined&#8221;. At the same time, supporters of the language are calling for a law giving language rights.<\/p>\n<p>There are further details in <a href=\"http:\/\/\">The Irish Times<\/a>, where a member of Sinn Fein is quoted as saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;The issue of language rights, a non-controversial issue in Wales, Scotland, the South of Ireland and throughout Europe, an expression of human rights, has now become a political football in the battle for supremacy between the unionist parties &#8230; The determination of unionist politicians to block any recognition of the Irish Language is a misguided and macho demonstration of anti-Irish bigotry.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Information about the Irish language in Northern Ireland can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.fa.knaw.nl\/mercator\/regionale_dossiers\/regional_dossier_irish_in_northernireland.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A motion to ban the use of the Irish language in the Northern Ireland Assembly was narrowly defeated by just two votes this week, according to Eurolang. A member of the Ulster Unionist Party had complained that members of Sinn Fein were using Irish in speeches, and wanted to put a stop to it. Many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}