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                        <h1 class="">Declassified files: Freudian slip in SDLP’s Irish language policy</h1>
                
                                        
                                        
                                                                                                                                                                
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                <h3 class=""><p>A new SDLP Irish language policy was privately dismissed by the Government as a crude attempt to outflank Sinn Fein.</p></h3>
                
                
                
                                
                
                
                <p>The policy said “party spokesmen are encouraged to use as much Irish as possible” and urged bilingual leaflets.</p><p>A
 memo by AJ Green in the Department of Education, released by the Public
 Record Office in Belfast under the 30/20 year rule, said that the 
document was “generally agreed to be foolish, divisive and reactionary, 
and to show the SDLP in its greenest guise”. He added: “You will now 
note that we are back with ‘the six counties’ (never Northern Ireland), 
and that the paper attacks Dublin language policy as well as UK language
 policy.</p>                              
                                                                
        <p>“Although the paper has a strong whiff of Gaelic fanaticism, the 
unreality of its proposals suggests pressure to be seen to outflank Sinn
 Fein. There is a pleasant Freudian slip in the paragraph on the media: 
independent TV stations are advised they have a duty ‘to give the Irish 
language ‘paper recognition’!”</p><div style="overflow:hidden;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:left;text-decoration:none;border:medium none"><br>Read more: <a style="color:rgb(0,51,153)" href="http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/northern-ireland-news/declassified-files-freudian-slip-in-sdlp-s-irish-language-policy-1-7142328#ixzz3wIAjhUq8">http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/northern-ireland-news/declassified-files-freudian-slip-in-sdlp-s-irish-language-policy-1-7142328#ixzz3wIAjhUq8</a><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message.  A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well.  (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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