An Phuinseábach

An Irish blog centred on history, law, politics, and disability.

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  • Stammering for Irish Employers
    Stammering is a speech disorder that affects over 50,000 people in Ireland. This is equivalent to 7–8% of the disabled population and 1% of the overall adult population in the country. The above is a depiction of nationalist politician Charles Stewart Parnell speaking to the United States Congress in the 1880s. Parnell had an “acute”… Read more: Stammering for Irish Employers
  • Integration Requires Interruption
    Article published with Aontacht Media on 26 February, 2026. Read here.
  • Sudan’s Cine Gorm
    Ancient links Cine gorm, often translated as ‘blue race’, is the Irish term for Black people. Even after having been chosen as the standard Irish adjective for the Black race over its more literal sister dubh (‘black’) in the 20th century, the complex history of the word gorm still remains largely under-explored, triggering much public… Read more: Sudan’s Cine Gorm

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