"The abandoned native speakers of the Gaeltacht have not found reliable strategic allies among the [second-language educated] elites."
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Nuachtlitir Ghaeilge nua: an tine Triangle Shirtwaist, an Nua-Ghaeltacht, leabhar baolach agus eile open.substack.com/pub/naoise2/...
Israel’s well-established targeting of journalists is going to intensify across the region. If you are a journalist employed by mainstream media, you need to not only condemn this individually but challenge your actual organisation on how they manufacture consent for it
‘I did imagine an older Prince Charming coming into my life’: Gavin McCrea tells Naoise Dolan about walking in Paris with Rousseau. What began as an academic text on the philosopher morphed into an epistolary novel that playfully mirrors 21st-century communication
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
New newsletter naoise.substack.com/p/poto-and-c...
Huge day for anyone who doesn’t hate my voice: I’ve started doing paywalled voice notes for when I’m truly just thinking aloud and don’t want it to be seen as a publicly accessible quote-unquote contribution to discourse. Here’s one on writing as job vs hobby naoise.substack.com/p/voice-note...
Is breá liom Eileen Gu, ach is fuath liom gur coincheap frithchultúrtha anois é an diansmaoineamh – mo nuachtlitir is deireanaí naoise2.substack.com/p/an-rud-ar-...
Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold
Join Naoise Dolan, Anne Griffin & Ailbhe Malone in conversation, in collaboration with @dublinbookfest.bsky.social.
Ancient Irish myth, retold — bold women reclaiming their stories.
📅 4 March at 6.30pm:
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
Occam’s Razor, I know, but the impact of the BBC’s editorial choices has certainly been that the censorship of Free Palestine has gone relatively undiscussed. When an organisation’s blunders somehow miraculously only BENEFIT them, it starts to look like deliberate deflection
One funny thing learning Arabic has made me realise is that when Israeli pundits go out of their way to say KHAMASSSSS to up the threat level to the Western ear, it just sounds like they’re mixing it up with the word for ‘five’
Why autistic people are often BETTER at tolerating ambiguity + my thoughts on Assimil’s Arabic course that I’m halfway through naoise.substack.com/p/autistic-a...
Tabhair dom an treo ceart - @naoisedolan.bsky.social
Sanremo, @realt.bsky.social agus Nuala Rua, i measc rudaí eile.
Grean séimh, léargas eile.
naoise2.substack.com/p/tabhair-do...
There is still room for the UK government to win the appeal but the odds are against them now. Huge considering all the advantages they had going in
Ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful. There are few clearer examples of how no one is free until Palestine is free: if unchallenged this ban would have destroyed civil liberties across the board. Solidarity with everyone who risked years of incarceration to fight it
Rinne mé iarracht an fhéile fonnadóireachta Iodálach Sanremo a mhíniú trí Ghaeilge naoise2.substack.com/p/tabhair-do...
The jury has thus far refused to convict the Filton 24 for the majority of their charges. Keir Starmer will be remembered as a war criminal
Join us as we explore some of the brilliant retellings and reimaginings in the new anthology Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold, with editor Ailbhe Malone and contributors Naoise Dolan and Anne Griffin ➡️ bit.ly/49X3fCN @nlireland.bsky.social
New Substack newsletter: what I read in January, thoughts on tracking things, and my criteria for whether or not I enjoy people naoise.substack.com/p/to-track-o...
Umer Khalid’s water strike starts tonight if the UK government does not enter negotiations with Prisoners for Palestine. The human body can survive, on average, 3 days without water. The genocide in Gaza continues, solidarity with a comrade risking his own life to oppose it
When ‘unfriend’ was a noun in English, my quest to learn 3,000 Arabic lemmas, and other language things naoise.substack.com/p/unfriend-n...
‘Hands off Greenland because it belongs to Denmark’ is not the one. Denmark colonised Greenland, suppressed the language and culture, and forcibly sterilised indigenous Greenlanders for decades
naoise2.substack.com/p/dialann-le...
Ní deir aon Ghearmánach ‘Tá an iomarca canúna Bheirlín in Berlin Alexanderplatz’; b’fhéidir nach n-aithneoidh duine as München gach téarma ann, ach ní bheadh aon fhadhb ag cainteoir dúchais Gearmáinise é a thuiscint ~ @naoisedolan.bsky.social faoi Cré na Cille
Umer Khalid is the last remaining hunger striker. Solidarity with him, free Palestine
We don’t need to be naive about it, but we do need not to succumb to despair. That plays right into the hands of governments
The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win
Smaointe fánacha faoi na leabhair a bhí mé ag léamh le déanaí i bPáras, i mBeirlín agus i bPalermo naoise2.substack.com/p/dialann-le...
This is Heba Muraisi’s 70th day on hunger strike. Bobby Sands died on his 66th day. I’m not privy to UK government meetings, I don’t have the pleasure of seeing inside their minds, but their behaviour is empirically indistinguishable from that of people who want her dead
I wrote on Substack about how to draft a book piece by piece when you don’t have much time, like I’m currently doing for my first Irish-language novel naoise.substack.com/p/just-write...
As the New Year rings in, Palestine Action prison hunger striker Heba Muraisi will cross over into her 60th day without food. This is often the threshold where sudden death becomes imminent. Her government knows and is wilfully proceeding, just as it has with the genocide in Gaza
grma! 🙏
