Press release issued by the Language Freedom Movement responding to comments made in Dáil Éireann on the 29th November, 1966 by Brian Lenihan, Minister for Justice, and Michael Carty, Parliamentary Secretary to An Taoiseach. Mr. Lenihan's comments were on the police, and referred to the LFM meeting in the Mansion House on 21 September 1966. LFM's objections to the comment are accompanied by an account of events on the night. Mr. Carty invoked Article 40 of the Irish Constitution, and remarked that the government could proscribe the LFM on the grounds that its meetings were calculated to cause a breach of the peace. The statement addresses the implications of such a remark on the principle of democracy, and freedom of speech.
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Response to comments made in Dáil Éireann by Fianna Fáil TD Flor. (Florence) Crowley, who described the Language Freedom Movement's activities as being equivalent to treason and Paisleyism. The response charges those who deny parents' rights through suppression and bullying with bigotry, and states the LFM acts in defence of their rights.
Press release responding to a statement made by George Colley, TD in Dáil Éireann on 8 July 1966, and requesting clarification on some issues. Included among these are allegations made in the press that the Language Freedom Movement arranged for a group of its members to attend a Mass in Gaelic, and loudly respond in English. The statement concludes by saying that although the LFM takes issue with some of the content of Mr. Colley's speech, they are not taking part in inter-party politics, and wish to co-operate with all political parties.
"Press Release issued by the Language Freedom Movement in response to comments made by the Galway Command of the IRA that they would intervene against ""anti-Irish elements"" active in the Ahascragh National School dispute. Contradicts the regiment's claim that those who want their children taught through English are ""middle-class parasites"" by claiming this accounts for 95% of Irish society. Objects to the threat of violence, which is says is 'no substitute for logic'. "
Two copies of a press release issued by the Language Freedom Movement. Concerns a discussion in the Oireachtas on the 26 July on the teaching medium in national schools. Labour TD Thomas Kyne asked Donogh O'Malley, Minister for Education about the rights of parents of national school children to have a say in the language of instruction in schools. Mr. O'Malley's response refers to the rights of all children, and conditions in place for teaching through Irish. The press release is a comment on his response, and on the issue of rights. Reference is made to the parents of Toomore, Co. Mayo who fought to have their children educated through English.
Press release referring to current controversy on censorship in the Seven Days Programme. States the programme filmed a piece on the Language Freedom Movement the previous year which was never aired.
Press release summarising an address by Christopher T. Morris, President of Language Freedom Movement to the Debating Society of Bolton Street College of Technology. Begins with a note to say the Gaelic League had declined an invitation to take part in a debate against the LFM, and it was agreed that Mr. Morris address the students, and take questions from the floor. Issues covered in the address include the White Paper on language (1965), the proportion of education in the schools dedicated to the Gaelic language, and the cultural value of the Gaelic language.
Press release issued by the Language Freedom Movement quoting remarks made by Christopher T. Morris, President of LFM, at an address to the Arts Society at University College Galway. Mr. Morris comments on the 'wrath of the Fíor Ghaels', saying that priests and religious who disagreed with the replacement policy were discouraged from openly stating this. The press release also addresses the cost of the replacement policy to the primary education system.
Statement by Patrick Browne, Honorary Secretary of the Language Freedom Movement on the results of the Parish Priests' plebiscite in Ahascragh, stating that the results completely discredited the Gaelic League's plebiscite, and backed up the results of plebiscites conducted elsewhere in Crab Lane, Cork, and in St. John's Park, Waterford. Criticises the plebiscites conducted by the Gaelic League on the basis of not asking the right question, and on not being strictly anonymous.
Public letter to the press from Patrick Browne, Secretary of the Language Freedom Movement, responding to recent correspondence in the press on a statement made by John B. Keane. Mr. Keane had said that the LFM was not opposed to the revival of Irish, and some of the correspondence claimed otherwise. The letter explains that the LFM and Mr. Keane are of the same view.