New York sanitation worker wins scholarship to study Gaelic in Ireland

(..more corrections of Georgieboy posts) In relation to someone writing to ICentral to be an Editor for an Irish language section on this site, Georgie wrote at 08.39am yesterday that I, jacers “compound that imbecility (of my (jacers) poor Irish) by claiming I (GD) said I "wouldn't be able" to handle a site in Irish. More garbage. I never said that.” – Well, erm - Yes you did say that Georgie – you wrote in Irish “Ní fhéadfainn-se a leithéid a dhéanamh—tá an iomarca naimhde agam anseo cheana féin.” – That translates to “I would not be able to do such a thing myself – I have enough enemies here already”. (I had mis-read ‘naimhde’ for a bad spelling of ‘naire’, meaning ‘shame’ thus throwing the meaning that George intended out of line, for which I apologised earlier; given my mis-reading, I understood George to say “I wouldn’t be able to do such a thing myself - I have enough shame already"). This clearly tells me that Georgie doesn’t quite understand what he posted in Irish and must have used a translator (no wonder then, like kinvara7, I saw but ignored the errors in that Irish post!) GeeDee therefore cannot possess the fluency of Irish that he claims to have. I'd suggest that shows that George is an imposter. A final correction of George’s assertions - my buttocks are quite firm and trim and far from constituting a fat arse.

A few corrections to Georgie’s assertions in recent posts: My Irish is far from rudimentary; I admitted that it is rusty from lack of practice but quite adequate for understanding both written and spoken Irish (I often watch TG4, the Irish language TV station). eiriamach is a lady, a scholar of religion, a fighter for equality with a smattering understanding of Irish language, an excellent writer and certainly not a racist; she and I don’t always agree between us in IC posts but we at least have huge respect for each other. mamaginnty is a lovely lady who looks after her bed-ridden sick husband all her days & nights who escapes to computer only when she can while he sleeps and is great with good oul’ Irish no-harm banter; I love her (sometimes bitchy!) posts. The poster Irishphotograph was quite correct to call you a ‘hater’ given the proof in yr own posts throughout various ICentral topics; incidentally, Irishphotograph is, I think, as far as I can remember, an Irish Central writer who knows Niall O’Dowd personally. He might therefore be in a position to personally report George’s abusive posts. (More...)

GeorgeDillon, I've re-read Searlit's comment, and she started me thinking. I should apologize to you for speculating about your name--sorry! It's just a coincidence with that other, 19th century, George Dillon. Now calm down, OK? Be your nicer self.

Whoo bejaysus! (that's Irish for the French ‘Mown Joo!) - Georgieboy now tells us he has appointed himself to wear the mantle of Jesus Christ on the pages of Irish Central and throw out all of us bad, foolish, imbecilic, hateful clown posters out of its ‘temple’. Careful Georgie, you’ll be trampling on the feet of Jesus next, saying that He was a clown not to have done a good enough job of it that day at the Temple...

GeorgeDillon, you write, "Christ threw the frauds and hypocrites out of the Temple. That's the equivalent of what I have to do here." You miscalculate. Didn't you get it? I've already been thrown out by the Gaeilgeoiri. That's why I'm here and why you will not succeed in throwing me out. So give up trying. I love the Irish language, and I hate seeing it used by anyone who is here to throw others out.

eiriamach: Please don't trry to use this site in lieu of psychoanalysis. We can't help you. Whatever happened in your earlier life to make you hate the Irish language, that's your problem, not ours. Keep it for your weekly couch appointments. Anyway, there are countless other Irish bigots who hate the Irish language, several on this site (viz. kinvara) maybe y'all should form a club. Call it the Ku Klux Klan (oops, sorry, that name has been taken by other crazies!).

searlit: "Eiriamach seems to me, a sensitive, transcendent scholar". You're joking, aren't you? What's scholarly about him/her? S/he is a rabid bigot and racist.

jacersagain: You obviously have never read the New Testament. If you had you'd know how Christ threw the frauds and hypocrites out of the Temple. That's the equivalent of what I have to do here. Go study religion if you want to try and dialog with me on it, you nitwit, otherwise you're wasting my time. You, for example, are a fraud and a hypocrite. This thread was derailed in its early stages by some clown calling himself Irishphotograph, who called me a "hater". You kept silent then, didn't you? You didn't call on him to withdraw that hate speech, did you? You hypocritical fool. Christ would have kicked your big fat ass out of the Temple with all the other vermin.

George Dillon, where is the man who once commented that he was a lot more pleasant, in reality than his posts would imply. I am paraphrasing you, of course. Eiriamach seems to me, a sensitive, transcendent scholar who doesn't deserve your insults. Can't you just make your comments without calling other posters names?

GeorgeDillon, Msgr. Dillon was an anti-Fenian as well as a xenophobe, anti-Semite, and radical-Catholic conservative. GD, Anyone who Googles the name "George Dillon" knows that the history I alluded to is, unfortunately, no fevered fantasy and does warrant questions since your xenophobia and anti-Irish fervor are obvious to all. Thanks for your suggestion, but what I need is not a psychiatrist; I need to deal with fewer Irish speakers of your ilk on IC. I probably met you at some point. I spent two years in various Irish language groups in this area of the US trying not only to learn the language, but also to find just one ally who 1) was not a far-right ideologue and 2) had the moral courage not to stand for the silencing of people whose politics are to the left and who call bigotry by its name when it asserts itself. I was silenced too often in those groups by homophobes, xenophobes, racists, misogynists, anti-abortion fanatics, Obama-haters, Hillary-haters, and such. I despise bigotry and sexist arrogance, so I am not any more impressed with your considerable skills in the Irish language than I was by those groups' "love of Gaeilge": I'd rather not see a fine language travestied by the male ego-tripping, narrow-mindedness and insults you and they indulge in, which others on this site are right to criticize. When Gaeilge is a kind of "turf" with signs posted about who may enter and who must leave, it's better off dead, at least in the US, where such bigotry thrives at present (faraor!). Show me your tolerance, your openness to ideas and attitudes that you do not share; show me your humane treatment of those you disagree with-- rather than insults calculated to drive them away. If YOU can set yourself up as a paradigm of Gaeilge speakers, WHO would want to speak Gaeilge? Not many decent people, for sure.

I agree George - this thread should have remained congratulatory for Mr. Shelvin – but you have only yourself to blame for it appearing fraught with insults. A re-reading of the thread shows the vast majority of insults have been posted by you. Compared to banter by others (not hatred by mamaginnty, eiriamach, kinvara7 etc) your inflammatory remarks and accusations are disgusting and, for one who proclaims himself to be a practising Catholic, your remarks are wholly un-Christian of you. Shame on YOU!

It's a shame that what should have been a joyous and celebratory thread, to congratulate this gentleman on his proficiency in Irish, has been subverted by haters such as the posters mamaginnty, kinvara7 and sham1977 (I am assuming these are not one and the same person, though I could be wrong). Shame on you three (or is that one?) for abusing this thread in order to further your bigotry. Let's the rest of us unite with a a big Maith Thu and Go n-eiri go geal leat to Mr Shevlin.

eiriamach: I appreciate your interest in me, though your speculations are naive and juvenile. If you are so fascinated by my politics, I can state that I never voted for warmongers such as Bush or Clinton. I supported Pat Buchanan in both his White House bids, largely because I agree with his pro-peace and isolationist views. I voted for Ron Paul in the Republican primary last time, and will do so again. I am a registered Republican, but of the radical non-interventionist & states rights wing. I nearly voted for Obama in the general election, but at the last minute my stomach turned at the thought of voting for a pro-abortion candidate, so I stayed home. I post here because I enjoy correcting fools, but principally because I want to explain and describe modern Ireland to my fellow Americans, who in many cases do not know the sad reality of that country. I know more about Ireland, past & present, than do most Americans, and indeed more than most Irish, who spend their time swilling ale and watching English soccer on TV. I speak Irish better than anyone on this site--the standard I have to beat is very low. As to your wild and crazy speculations, I have never heard of my cleric namesake that you mention. The feverish fantasy you exhibit in your post suggests there is something wrong with you. I'd say you might need to seek psychiatric care. The poster kinvara7 could probably recommend someone, though he appears to have benefited little from attending the various specialists he has seen.

Strange indeed eiramach.

Well, that's an interesting discussion, Jacers, mamaginnty, kinvara, of GeorgeDillon's politics and facility with the Irish language! I also wondered about GD: that surely cannot be the name that some foolish parents baptized him with, can it? And if he chose it as a screen name, why would he choose the name of a notorious Anti-Semite Catholic priest conspiracy-theorist who thought the Jews were in cahoots with the Masons to destroy the Catholic Church? Msgr. George Dillon is now one of the heroes of far-right extremist schismatic sects. That would be like an American using CharlesCoughlin as a screen name! Is GD a SSPX or Opus Dei operative? Is he one of those who hang out here just to keep watch and swoop in whenever anyone posts a comment that is not ultra-orthodox by their standards? Aisteach go leor é sin!