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Britain | The lighting of a fire THE ROLE OF THE IRISH LANGUAGE IN NORTHERN IRELAND’S DEADLOCK THOUGH LESS THAN 1% USE IT AS THEIR MAIN LANGUAGE, CUTBACKS HAVE REKINDLED ENTHUSIASM FOR THE

IRISH TONGUE UNTIL March 31st all seemed well at the four clubs in Belfast where youngsters can go after school to socialise, get local history lessons with a radical slant and sign up for

hiking trips, all in Irish. Then Northern Ireland’s education authority announced that their latest annual bid for funding had failed, and the clubs closed their doors. Six days later, the

authority’s offices were briefly and exuberantly taken over by scores of chattering children and young adults, brandishing a mix of newly minted social-media icons and venerable nationalist

slogans. On April 11th the clubs were told that cash had been found after all and they vowed to reopen. This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline

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