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? Interlingua 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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