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Advocates seeking to reclaim Irish language for Catholics and Protestants

August 15, 2013Global Politics

The Irish language has often been viewed as a weapon by Irish Catholic and an enemy tongue by the country’s Protestants. But no longer, if some Irish have their way. They’re trying to reclaim the language for both sides, and take the politics out of it.

A woman carries a carton of milk past a Republican mural of "Gaeilgeoir" (Irish speaker) Bobby Sands outside the Sinn Fein offices on the Falls road in West Belfast (Reuters/Cathal McNaughton)

A New Protestant Beginning for the Irish Language in Belfast

August 15, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

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