Talk:Language Freedom Movement

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I am not sure if this should be listed in the category "Irish-language activists". They are certainly "Irish language-activists", but they are activists in the same way anti-heroes are also heroes in their own stories. – Kaihsu 20:02, 22 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Would the category Politics of the Republic of Ireland be better? It would certainly fit. I'm not sure if the link to the Reform Movement is appropriate - I don't know of any links between them, as in people who were involved in both. Autarch 17:48, 23 August 2006 (UTC)


 * There were Irish-speakers in the LFM. Perhaps they considered the Governments language policies to be counter-productive ? Perhaps that would make them "Irish language activists" 90.213.194.155 (talk) 21:07, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Does it make sense that Pro-Irish protesters would wave a UNION Flag?
This is what it says now: "Pro Irish language protesters swamped the meeting, waving Union Flags, tearing at a tricolour on the platform and preventing the organisers from speaking." wouldn't the Union flag be waved by those opposed to Irish? Inter lingua 02:29, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Supposedly they did that to accuse them of being West Brits. I've seen footage from some years back of Irish language activists protesting outside Radio Telefís Éireann wielding a modified Union flag - I can't remember what words were on the flags - possibly just "RTE". Autarch (talk) 13:46, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Aims of organisation
The article states: the Language Freedom Movement was a political organization opposed to the state-sponsored revival of the Irish language in the Republic of Ireland Is this an accurate description of what the LFM stood for ? The Language FREEDOM movement (whose membership included Irish-speakers) was not so much opposed to the aim of revival of Irish as the ham fisted (and sometimes counter-productive) methods by which the state tried to coerce the population into participating in this (attempted) revival through discrimination against non-Irish speakers such as denying them educational qualifications. The article doesn't really explain when or why the (premature) disbandment of the organization took place. 90.213.194.155 (talk) 21:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

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