26-year-old Naoise Ó Cuilín is well educated – a degree from Queens University and a later Masters from Dublin City University in International Security and Conflict Studies.

Skilled in JuJitsu and a former personal trainer, and a lad who never knew “the Troubles” having only been born in 1998 – what choices did Naoise make that led him to become not only an Irish Language “Activist”, but also an Irish Language Extremist peddling demands for Decolonisation of Northern Ireland and the most bitter demands for “rights” [not responsibilities] of the INDIGENOUS Irish – “ie US”?

Can’t really blame everything on the mother whose breastmilk he suckled, the woman IRA volunteer Caroline Cullen who set out in 1989 to plant a booby-trap bomb at the gates of a police station and was – better for her and for everyone else – caught red-handed, having had her life spared by the police – spared because she gave herself to an organisation, the IRA, that had an extreme “shoot to kill” policy justified whether killing police, soldiers, civilians, mothers, girls – even babies.

Sure enough, Naoise was in the GAA from almost an infant, a sports training that unfortunately did not appear to give him a love for all of his neighbours in Northern Ireland.

Since Glór na Móna – his ‘activist’ Irish language grouping that only a few years ago was on the verge of bankruptcy but was more recently saved by a Belfast City Council grant of £500,000 – has given itself over to a mixmash of New Zealander Maori activism based around Decolonisation of All Sorts of Spaces and a highlighting of the Rights of the INDIGENOUS over those of the plainly Non Indigenous – I mean – we all know how we must cast out the horrible Non Indigenous, right?

I mean – that’s what the Irish language is about, isn’t it – division and antagonism?

This reflective process draws upon the perspective of the Maori academic, Tuhawai Smith, who said:
‘Decolonisation, once viewed as the formal process of handing over instruments of government, is now recognised as the long-term process involving the bureaucratic, cultural, linguistic and psychological divesting of colonial power’. Postcolonial criticism and literature/music in Irish…

– The influence of postcolonial critics on Irish-language criticism (Fanon, Césaire, Said, Spivak etc.)
– Neocolonialism and the case of the Gaeltacht
– Decolonisation, language planning, community regeneration, the urban Gaeltacht/the neo-Gaeltacht
– Community activism past and present
– Festivals, drama, murals, and art as decolonial practice
– Decolonisation in the context of the education system
– Decolonisation in museums and the academy
– Decolonial feminism and the struggle for women’s rights
– Decolonisation, climate change and the ecological revolution
– Resistance among political prisoners as decolonial practice
– Neocolonialism and race, class, sexuality and inequality
– Human rights and the decolonial project

You might have thought that an Irish language organisation now funded by that most generous Belfast City Council half-million grant would spread the Irish language to those who want it – not going beyond that to demonise half of the population as NON INDIGENOUS and subject to DECOLONISATION of – what? – even its portraiture…

Young Naoise somehow dons what is apparently a paramilitary uniform at IRA Commemorations in Ardoyne or at Commemorations of IRA Volunteers in Ardoyne – has he nothing better to do with his time as an Irish Language Activist than dress up as an IRA Volunteer or as an IRA Volunteer Lover?

Here is an image of Naoise at the Non Indigenous City Hall an hour before the act of vandalism that damaged a portrait of a Non Indigenous – with a glass of Non Indigenous vino in hand:

Will there ever be a time when the Irish Language is not YOKED to IRA Terrorism by a bunch of Extremists?

How could any self-respecting Catholic or Protestant, Nationalist or Unionist or Loyalist, have regard for IRA promoters welding the Irish Language to Terrorist Violence?

Yes, I see Catholic priest Gary Donegan orating into the microphone a few feet to the left of paramilitary uniformed Naoise in the image above – but Donegan is an old friend of prominent IRA leaders as previously documented on this blog.

So if young, highly educated, Irish Language loving Naoise did indeed attack and vandalize a portrait of a Protestant Unionist Lord Mayor of Belfast toward the end of the Glór na Móna gig in Belfast City Hall – witnessed by not a few other Irish Language lovers – was he not just Decolonising the Wall of a Non Indigenous Oppressor portrait?

What – in the view of Glór na Móna – was wrong with a bit of Decolonising Activism?

I mean, apart from potentially threatening the Non Indigenous British King’s Non Indigenous 500,000 Sterlings?

Isn’t all of that Decolonising Activism in the Rhetoric and in the Studies program, ably assisted by Non Indigenous Queens University?

And don’t worry yourselves – sure we can all have confidence in Dr Peter Doran of Queens who – apart from refusing to condemn the IRA murder of his Queens Law colleague Edgar Graham – is now thinking and writing about Decolonisation in a manner that’s sure to lead only to the increase of academic knowledge:

THE history of colonialism on the island of Ireland gave rise to more than one form of partition, writes Dr Peter Doran. In its strategic attack on the Irish language, he argues that the forces of dispossession also partitioned people and nature, communities and landscapes.

Sure in 2024/2025/2026 let’s have a bit more divisive rhetoric that leads some Activists to – let me guess – ACTIVISM…

Acts of Decolonisation – such as an Act of Vandalism against a Non Indigenous Artifact…

What could go wrong with the Irish Language being yoked to the Rhetoric of Extremism?

What could go wrong with yoking the Irish Language to praise and glorification of IRA Terrorism?

What could go wrong with Belfast City Council funding £500,000 to Glór na Móna?

It’s okay – the Political Police Service of Northern Ireland have indicated that in the absence of CCTV footage of the act of vandalism, and in view of so many Irish Language Activists having been in the Toilets of City Hall, and in view of the delicacy of prosecuting any member or past member of Sinn Féin – or indeed, during the past 20 years – any member of the IRA – no charges will be laid with regard to this act of vandalism.

I mean, isn’t this exactly what would have happened if the sprog of a DUP Member of the Legislative Assembly had damaged the portrait of IRA Terrorist leader Martin McGuinness in Non Indigenous [SMASH STORMONT] Stormont?

Equality, Respect and Transparency, I say, the Sinn Féin watchwords!

Sinn Féin IRA-Fantasists on parade – will yees ever grow up? [Pic: Kevin Scott, Belfast Live]

PS – what was that Non Indigenous-named IRA Leader and IRA Denier Gerry Adams doing at the Glór na Móna City Hall gig when he canny hardly speak a focal [word] of Gaeilge?

Not that Gerry was ivver a member of Glór na Móna!