It’s the oldest language in Western Europe, but it’s not taught in many schools outside its native country. It’s misunderstood and often called by the wrong name. It’s Irish, and for the first time it ...

What does your language mean to you? Identity, culture, self expression - these are some of the reasons language speakers are determined to speak and maintain their native tongue, and the thousands of ...

Imelda May discusses her new RTÉ series Amhráin na nGael, which sees the artist travel the country, trying her hand at sean nós singing and strengthening her connection with the Irish language. Why ...

Trigger warning: unforgivable ignorance lies ahead. TikTok is not the first place people go to discuss the finer points of colonialism we admit, but a series of videos of posters responding to the ...

“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 ...

Curious about my Irish heritage, I conducted research over many years, visited Ireland three times and subsequently published a book on our family tree for my immediate family and relatives. The ...

Paul Mescal's viral interview on the BAFTA Awards red carpet has been called a landmark moment for Irish speakers. The Oscar nominee, 27, captured social media's attention after speaking to the Irish ...

New research shows 11% of Irish speakers encountered intimidation or harassment when using their native tongue ...

DUBLIN — Like Henry Higgins, the phonetician from George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion,” Marius Cotescu and Georgi Tinchev recently demonstrated how their student was trying to overcome pronunciation ...

It’s two days after Colm Bairéad attended the 2023 Oscar nominees luncheon and the Irish writer-director of “The Quiet Girl” is still processing his first time at the star-studded annual event. “Was ...

Even the new British ambassador is embracing the cúpla focal. Introducing herself after presenting her Letters of Credence to President Michael D Higgins last week Kara Owens opened her short video on ...

Ireland has a scattering of areas, mostly along its western seaboard, where Irish is the predominant vernacular. However, these Gaeltacht regions do not have sufficient numbers of gardai who can ...