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Who Dares To Speak? Morality Versus Venality In Modern Ireland
What other nation in Europe would have such little regard for its history? What other nation in Europe would be so willing, so eager, to destroy the physical embodiments of its identity? The community...
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Two Tech Stories For Gaeilgeoirí
Two tech stories for the Irish-speaking community via the Silicon Republic. The first highlights the addition of the TG4 player to the line-up of on-demand television services provided by the major...
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Angloban Ignorance Posing As Informed Commentary
Oh please, someone save me from the half-arsed opinions of right-wing Anglophone buffoons. From Niall O’Dowd’s US-based website Irish Central resident “Irish” correspondent John Spain offers this view...
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Ceol Ar An Imeall
Ceol ar an Imeall, TG4’s indie music show, is back tonight at 23.00 on TG4. Lots of Irish bands performing live in studio plus interviews with a host of international acts. A whole gaggle of...
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TG4 Scoops It Rivals
Three quick posts on TG4, the real public service broadcaster in Ireland, all from IFTN (the Irish Film & Television Network). Colin Bateman is a well-known Irish novelist and dramatist behind such...
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Some Quick Posts
First up a review in the Irish Times of the new TG4/BBC co-production, the comedy-drama “Scúp”, penned by Irish author and screenwriter Colin Bateman (the man behind the mid-2000s BBC hit “Murphy’s...
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RTÉ – Reform Or Die
Here’s an interesting snippet from the ever-vigilant NAMA Wine Lake. Guess which TV station was the only television broadcaster in Ireland to make a profit in 2011? Not the country’s official...
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Irish TV? We Should Be So Lucky!
So, essentially a big fuck you to the Irish-speaking citizens and communities of Ireland from former Trotskyite rebel-without-a-cause Pat Rabbitte, the minister of communications, as he dismiss out of...
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Irish TV And Cinema? Some Hope
I was going through my collection of Blu-ray and DVD movies and box-sets over the weekend, not to mention several hundred hours of digital content on my main HTPC, and it suddenly struck me that less...
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Culture Wars In Ireland And Britain
Hot on the heels of my post discussing the urgent need for the reform of public service broadcasting in Ireland comes news of a veritable revolt by journalists within RTÉ’s normally quiescent ranks as...
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TG4 Launches Scéal, The Short Film Scheme
News from the IFTN that TG4 has launched a new short film scheme: ‘Scéal is a development scheme that offers talented new Irish-speaking writers/directors an opportunity to adapt a well-known story...
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Irish Language Television – Innovative, Dynamic, Irish…
Irish language television seems to be providing the most dynamic programming in Ireland these days, with the output from independent production companies and TG4 going from strength to strength. 2012...
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Cúla Caint – The New TG4 App For Kids
In some related Irish language news The Journal carries a report on a new children’s application, Cúla Caint, from TG4: “… TG4 has launched its first Irish language app. Designed with kids in mind,...
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The Book Smugglers. Ireland, Lithuania, And The Freedom Of Language
One of the most interesting, and thought-provoking, Irish language documentaries of recent years will be screened at a film festival in Estonia, reports IFTN: “Irish production companies Planet Korda...
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RTÉ Should Be TG4 – And Here’s Why
Lecturer and author Niamh Hourigan discusses TG4, the Irish language television channel, in the Irish Times with some interesting, if debatable, points: “Although fully independent of RTÉ since 2007,...
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An Irish-American Story
From the Irish Independent a story on Séamus Ó Fianghusa, an Irish-American soldier who is now the subject of a new documentary on TG4: “A SERVING US soldier who learned Irish from the internet is the...
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Silent Voices
Concubhar Ó Liatháin, an Irish journalist and blogger, editor of the now closed Lá Nua newspaper, and presently a member of the board of management of TG4, has written an article for the Irish...
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Concubhar Ó Liatháin Deals With His Critics
Following on from my piece examining the criticism of TG4 by Concubhar Ó Liatháin over the airing of a new documentary series, Mná an IRA, by the channel Ó Liatháin makes a spirited defence of his...
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The Sunday Independent Has An Article On Irish History – Which Favours The...
Something truly strange must have happened in the offices of the Sunday Anglo Independent over the last few days. Why? Because someone has managed to smuggle an article into the newspaper examining a...
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A United Ireland – Digitally At Least
Well, better late than never I suppose. From the Hollywood Reporter (ooh-la-la!): “TV viewers in Northern Ireland will be able to watch digital channels TG4 and RTÉ One and Two from the Republic of...
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