[lg policy] Call for MEA Council to block Irish language legislation

[Harold Schiffman]

 Call for MEA Council to block Irish *language* legislation
<https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ballymenatimes.com/news/call-for-mea-council-to-block-irish-language-legislation-1-8275230&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCCoTNTgwMzQ0OTU2OTQ5MTc5ODAyMDIaZTg4YjRlMWZjZmQyMWM0OTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGpXjEc5rmAa1im_FRJd20dizab-w>

<https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ballymenatimes.com/news/call-for-mea-council-to-block-irish-language-legislation-1-8275230&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCCoTNTgwMzQ0OTU2OTQ5MTc5ODAyMDIaZTg4YjRlMWZjZmQyMWM0OTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGpXjEc5rmAa1im_FRJd20dizab-w>
Ballymena Times
It reads: "That this Council, noting the existing lavish provision for
Irish *language* interests, opposes any attempt, under any legislative
guise, to make Irish an official *language* in Northern Ireland or to
require to be treated on a par with English, either in the council or
elsewhere, believing such would ..

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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