The Irish Times features an article by one Sinéad Ní Mheallaigh reporting on her efforts to revive the Irish language in Newfoundland, the region in North America that has a very strong Irish linguistic heritage.

Tears prick my eyes as I watch the opening scenes of TG4’s ‘1916 :Seachtar na Cásca’ with my students in Canada. I realise that these ( Read more... )

Kate Sheridan's article in the Montreal Gazette looks at an ongoing effort to revive the Irish language in that city. What I particularly like is that this places the current effort in the context of Québec's long Irish history.

The Irish language, or Gaeilge, is experiencing a mini-Renaissance in Montreal with the help of Concordia’s School of ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes the various subway stations scheduled to get upgrades.
• Crooked Timber considers the ethics of wealth inequality.
  
• The Dragon's Gaze notes the apparent detection of signals from disrupted hot Jupiters in nearby galaxies.
• Joe. My. God. notes a lawsuit lodged by people in a New York City parish who allege the church was covering up their ( Read more... )

• blogTO considers if the Union-Pearson Express might work as a rapid transit line.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes that Earth-like worlds which rapidly lose most of their water can extend their habitable lifetimes.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog talks about the sociological lessons of party crashers.
• Geocurrents notes the complexities of Valencian identity and ( Read more... )

• Centauri Dreams anticipates Ceres.
• Crooked Timber notes Big Oil is turning against Big Coal.
• Geocurrents shares Martin Lewis' slides on Nigeria.
• Language Hat, reflecting on Irish and Hebrew, considers language change and shift.
• Language Log examines the historical American broadcast r-less accent.

• Al Jazeera notes Syrian refugee resettlement in Germany, the cultural importance of jewelry design to the Navajo, the complicated ethics of separatism in South Yemen, concerns over the Islamic State in the Arab Gulf and in the North Caucasus, a massacre of Christians by Somali militias in northern Kenya, the localization of Google in Irish, and a ( Read more... )

A Globe and Mail article by Susan Krashinsky, "A tongue-twisting labour of love in Canada's Gaelic-speaking community" touched upon one of Canada's Celtic-language communities ( Read more... )