Under British rule, Gaeilge became a minority language in Ireland, yet it was never allowed to die out and over the centuries, Ireland’s mother tongue was kept alive by people all over the island, ...
Lesser-known key figures and unsung heroes behind the decades-long preservation of the Irish language in west Belfast have been spotlighted in a new exhibition. The old drying rooms in historic Conway ...
Students in Dublin hold up an Irish language badge that they designed to encourage young people to speak Irish, the national languageAndy Rain / EPA After decades of exodus, the tide of Irish ...
Seanscéal agus meirg air, meaning “stale news”, or, more literally, “an old story with rust on it”. This figure of speech aptly describes the annual spilling of ink over the status of the Irish ...
People in the Republic learn Irish "to pass exams" but in Northern Ireland they are motivated by the love of it, an official study has found. The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) said the ...
Her Irish eyes are smiling, but it’s her native tongue that has captured New Yorkers’ attention. Born and raised on a farm in County Cork, Ireland, Vivienne Sayers O’Callaghan moved to Ridgewood, ...
In Northern Ireland, where the Irish language is a proxy battleground between Unionists and Nationalists, dual-language signs have become a “key point of contention at Stormont”, said the BBC. In ...
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