Meon Gaelach: A 1960s warning against Globalization in Ireland

Máirtín Ó Braonáin, SJ.'s famous pamphlet 'An Dá Chultúr' (1967) railed against the cultural usurpation of Gaeldom.

The struggle against Anglocentric provinciality

For this week’s Meon Gaelach I have decided to translate a powerful passage from the Jesuit Gaeilgeoir writer Máirtín Ó Braonáin, SJ.’s pamphlet, ‘An Dá Chultúr’ (1967). A profoundly prescient piece of work, Ó Braonáin makes an argument for preserving and allowing to flourish our cine’s (race’s) linguistic …