Ireland's official language is Irish, but only a small percentage of the population can speak it fluently and even fewer use it on a daily basis. So is the Irish language hard to learn? Gaeilge (Irish ...

DCU Sealbhú's consultation with students, parents, and teachers is timely given the upsurge of interest in Gaeilge evident in ...

COLONIE – Their eyes were smiling to match the laughter as the students dove into their lesson of Irish Gaelic while a faint skirl of bagpipes sounded another class down the hall. What began as two ...

A groundbreaking new monolingual Irish dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge, the body responsible for the promotion of the Irish language throughout the island of Ireland, was launched this week by ...

Unionists in Northern Ireland have "legitimate concerns" over the Irish language but they "can be addressed", the former first minister of Wales has said. Mark Drakeford, the Welsh government's ...

Analysis: We designed the Irish grammar test to end all Irish grammar tests to answer this question. The results were not great To answer the question we designed the Irish grammar test to end all ...

My mother achieved real competence in Irish, and then gradually lost it. Her exertions were motivated by unrequited love, her ambitions, and even her politics. After she died, I found all these great ...

“For any language to survive, it has to be culturally present.” That’s how Colm Bairéad, whose devastating first feature, “The Quiet Girl” (An Cailín Ciúin), is the first Irish-language production to ...

Catherine Clinch plays Cáit in the Irish language film “An Cailín Ciúin” (”The Quiet Girl”). Ireland is famous for its literary output, claiming four Nobel laureates in literature and countless other ...