Séamas Ó Sionnaigh

Mé Féin:

Fáilte!

And welcome to my very own MySpace page. So whaddya want to know?

Well I live and work in Cúige Laighean, in Éire.

I have two younger sisters, and a younger brother, George Fox or Seoirse Ó Sionnaigh (a highly sucessful stand-up comedian. Check out his MySpace page for upcoming events, gigs, news and general Foxyness).

I'm a Celt, Gael and Irishman, in that order.

I have long-standing literary and artistic aspirations (probably meaning I write and draw more in hope than any real talent). But I hope some day to publish my writing and artwork. Have real passions for history, archaeology, science, astronomy, architecture, art, cinema, millitaria, etc. All the geeky/nerdy intellectual stuff. But I also like (LOVE!) cars. Jaguar, Maserati and Aston Martin. Let me at 'em!

I'm a cyberjock and technophile since the glory days of IBM, Atari and the Commodore 64 (anyone for Pong?!).

My politics are pure, old fashioned (and deeply unfashionable?) Gaelic Republicanism. Sure, whaddya gonna do? The love that dare not speak it's name, to borrow off Oscar, I have a bad case of the Fenian Fever and fully admit it. Perhaps just as well I'm in a minority of a few dozen on the island. Centrist social-democratic ethno-nationalist Gaelic Republicanism isn't exactly popular ya know - at least not these days. But when you think of the true capital of Ireland as Teamhair (Tara), not Baile Átha Cliath (Dublin), and would do away with the God-awful (and barely democratic) English-style county and town councils and replace them with five truly democrative and representitive provincial legislatures based upon the five Irish provinces, well... I could go on but ya get the idea.

And if that sounds awfully Éire Nua to you, well yes and no; yes I believe in something similar (in parts, at least), no, I'm not some some crypto Official / Provisional Sinn Féin / Workers Party, et al type.

God forbid...! :-)

My hope, dream, and driving ambition is too see the restoration of the All-Ireland Gaelic Republic of 1916 - 1922 through the transformation of the present nation-state of Ireland.

I'm also a Celtic Nationalist, and believe strongly in Pan-Celtic Nationalism as a potential force for democratic, political and cultural change in north-western Europe.

I belive in stronger co-operation between the three Gaelic Nations, Éire (Ireland), Albain (Scotland) and Oileán Mhanann (Isle of Man), for the poltical, economic and cultural benefit of us all, and would hope to see some day a Gaelic equivalent of the Scandianvian Council bringing us all together for our mutual benefit.

The logic of bringing the Gaelic languages together, of standardising their grammer and spelling to a single agreed form based upon An Caighdeán Oifigiúil (Official Standard Modern Irish) is overwhelming. If the Portugeuse and Spanish (and French) can do it so surely can we...

* * * Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam * * *

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