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I just bought a house nearby, just off of beautiful McKinley Pkwy, (on an Olmstead Islands street!) and was pleasantly surprised to see this the other day! It's nice to have another unique detail telling you that you're in the Irish part of town. Also, with the nice street lights going up in the Seneca Business District, the area seems to be on the rise!

Now for South Park Ave... what can be done to dress it up a bit? I'm thinking trees! The buildings are a little ugly, so trees would do wonders. Maybe when I settle into my new home, I'll seek out some interested people...

Cool idea but how I find my away around if I don't speak Irish?

Get real drunk and then just stumble on home like any good irishman would do...

"how I find my away around if I don't speak Irish"

...includes the installation of Irish language street signs to compliment the existing English language street signs.

These signs look awesome! A great addition to the Irish heritage district in SB.Great job goin' south, and to Sean Sullivan from city signs division.

I live in this neighborhood and my street has these signs but they don't appear to be permenent. Anybody know wether they are or not and how to go about trying to lobby the city to make them permenent?

Gaelic preceded English in Ireland, and the struggle over language was/is one of the fronts of contention between imperial Great Britain and the people of Ireland who resisted colonialism (now the Republic of Ireland). See Brian Friel's play "Translations" for a dramatic account of the renaming of local sites out of Gaelic and into English.

Also, if the signs compliment each other, they say: "Hey sign, you look nice today," whereas if they complement each other, they combine in a way that enhances the other.

Forge...I think complimentary signs would be funnier than silly complementary signs. Why do you and peopl like you feel the need to correct minor gramatical errors when you know damn well the we the readers get the point?

Forge is either;

a.) Someone with no job and 4 useless advanced degrees b.) A less than successful public school teacher

...or someone with a refreshing dry sense of humor.

In a time when we are stressing cultural diversity, these signs are very imposing upon others who live in the neighborhood who are not Irish. This contributes to the lowering of their childrens self-esteem and sense of belongingness in their own neighborhood. This neighborhood belongs to its people and its people are of various nationalities and backgrounds. With all the problems in South Buffalo, our elected officials should be concentrating their efforts on important matters and not worrying about Gaelic street signs. These signs need to be removed after St. Patrick's Day and should only be a seasonal display. A seasonal display is sharing your culture with others, doing this year round is an imposition of your culture onto others and showing no respect for the diverse ethnicity of your neighbors.

More stories about South Buffalo please!

It seems South Buffalo only gets about 3-4 stories a year if their lucky...and that really needs to change!

If they did this on the East Side would we end up with street names like Stanislaus, Paderewski, and Kosciuszko?

Nevermind.