Irish Language Controversy
Eagle eyed readers of last Saturday’s Irish Times will have seen a short report under the headline ‘CofI bishop challenges English counterpart over Irish epitaph’. The bishop in question is the Rt Revd Michael Burrows, Bishop of Cashel, Ferns & Ossory who, in an open letter to the Bishop of Coventry, the Rt Revd Christopher Cocksworth, expressed his concern about a ruling by Stephen Eyre QC, Chancellor of the Consistory Court of the Diocese of Coventry.
The ruling was that an inscription in Irish on a gravestone in a Coventry churchyard must be translated to ensure it…
