| Culzie | Date: Sunday, 2014-02-02, 8:19 PM | Message # 1 |
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| Another gaff by Geordie. He's probably right in what he is says, but unfortunately people don't like being being told what or what not to do. Witness the reaction to the recent banning of a satire of Christ's life. There was 150 tickets sold which went up to 800 after the council ban (it was later dropped). I can see the same happening re Georgie Chittick's words. This will make more people go and learn Irish. Geordie and others will have to realise that this is not the 1950s, and that people today will not be told what they should do. Though he was talking to a loyalist gathering, I'm sure he had a good idea that the media would be reporting what he had said. Seems like another own goal to me.
Irish language claims condemned N.L 2nd February 2014
A senior member of the Orange Order who claimed the Irish language was used by republicans for political purposes has been criticised.
An Irish language development officer in east Belfast said many people were upset by the remarks of George Chittick, the order’s Belfast County Grand Master.
Linda Ervine said: “I know a lot of people who have been angered and offended.”
Mr Chittick told a loyalist rally in north Belfast yesterday: “A word of warning to Protestants who go to learn Irish... it’s part of the republican agenda.”
He later said his remarks were aimed at those seeking funding for Irish language projects rather than financial aid for projects which would generate jobs.
Ms Ervine, a development officer at an Irish language centre in east Belfast and who is married to Brian Ervine, a former leader of the Progressive Unionist Party, said she was surprised by what Mr Chittick said. .
She told presenter William Crawley on BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence programme: “I had talks with the Orange Order last year and found them to be very interested in my work.
“I know a lot of people in east Belfast have been offended by this, I’ve had a lot of messages overnight from people who are quite angry at Mr Chittick’s remarks. I wish he would come and address them to us, I’d love him to come and visit our centre because I think it would be a real wake-up call for him.
“You come into our classroom and you have members of the DUP, members of Alliance, members of the UUP, members of the PUP all learning Irish.”
Sinn Fein councillor Niall O Donnghaile said Protestants had nothing to fear by learning Irish.
Mr O Donnghaile, a former Lord Mayor of Belfast, said: “Here in my own constituency in inner east Belfast, people like Linda Ervine are taking a very courageous stand in promoting the Irish language and highlighting that history to Protestant people.”
Today an Orange Order spokesman said they had no formal policy or guidelines for members regarding the learning of the Irish language. Any decision was a matter for individual conscience.
The spokesman added: “What is not widely known is that some Orangemen throughout the history of the Institution have actually been fluent, or familiar, in the use of the Irish language.
“Among them were a number of our Protestant forefathers who signed the Ulster Covenant over a century ago and Rev Dr Rutledge Kane, a former County Grand Master of Belfast.
“While we are opposed to the Irish language being used as a political weapon, as opposition to our parades is used by republicans in the same way, the Orange Institution remains committed to a truly shared future.
“However, this must include respect and tolerance for our British culture and heritage, as well as minority viewpoints.”
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news....5851088
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news....5837423
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| RSAUB | Date: Sunday, 2014-02-02, 10:34 PM | Message # 2 |
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| Let's hope he sticks to his guns and doesn't backdrop, the time has long past for all true loyalists to stand up to the 5th columnists within our community.
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| Slappataig | Date: Monday, 2014-02-03, 10:15 PM | Message # 3 |
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| i see this near-militant socialism coming from the PUP within loyalism is very very strong, even in towns and villages not near the east belfast power house, and its the most corrupt sickening situation when your talking to them "loyalists" who are fully fully signed up to the liberal marxist mindset. pure rotting our culture inside out.
and if any proof was needed that it is indeed a fenian agenda, sinn fein comes on with that we have nothing to fear about it.
that one lines just confirms to every right minded person in the country thats the case.
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| Culzie | Date: Tuesday, 2014-02-04, 1:55 PM | Message # 4 |
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| Summed it up Slappa. Those at the top in some sections of loyalism have been on a brain-washing exercise for some time now. As the fella said in his article about Paddy's day and the introduction of Irish games,and language etc into our schools ''we didn't ask for it but we're getting it''
Talking to a loyalist one time he was going on about how Protestants were in the UI. He had been told this this by those you speak off, and it was like a matter of wonder to him. I ask him '''did they tell you about Scullabogue and Wexford Bridge and the UI there as well'' He didn't know what I was talking about. So its a one sided picture they give, and they know it but keep it off the radar. They give the lead and the rest blindly follow.
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