Linda Ervine
Linda Ervine
Personal life
Ervine comes from a
Irish language activism
Ervine began her involvement with language issues through a six-week introduction to Irish with the East Belfast Mission (a community development organisation founded in 1985) and
Ervine has often spoken publicly on the Protestant history of association with the Gaelic language and the Presbyterian communities of the Hebrides today (given that in Northern Ireland some unionists tend to associate the language exclusively with Irish republicanism).[citation needed] She has urged politicians from the Ulster Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party (as well as the Orange Order) not to view the Irish language and culture as exclusively the domain of republicanism.[5][6][7]
In December 2014, along with
Recognition
In 2020, she became the first president of the newly formed East Belfast GAA.[10]
References
- ^ "TURAS at East Belfast Mission".
- ^ "Linda Ervine: Language and Country belongs to us all". Vixens with Convictions. 26 January 2015.
- ^ "Ervine to open Gaelic centre in Republic". News Letter. 26 January 2015.
- ^ "A New Protestant Beginning for the Irish Language in Belfast". PRI. 26 January 2015.
- ^ "McCausland accused of politicising Irish language". The Irish News. 26 January 2015.
- ^ "UUP councillors 'walk out' on Irish speaker Linda Ervine". BBC. 26 January 2015.
- ^ "Visit our Irish class in loyal east Belfast... challenge to Orange chief who hit out at language". Belfast Telegraph. 26 January 2015.
- ^ "Linda Ervine: "respect the Irish language"". Slugger O'Toole. 26 January 2015.
- ^ Manley, John (22 February 2018). "Irish act in draft agreement did not go far enough, groups say". The Irish News. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 27 July 2020.