“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 ...

In Ireland, where I am studying for a PhD in immunology at Trinity College Dublin, we have two official languages. Irish is the first and national language, English the second. Internationally, this ...

In the Irish language "everything is poetry and everything is banter." Editor's note: This August, we're celebrating Gaeilge (the Irish language) and Irish music with a series highlighting those ...

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 ...

SHELTA, or more correctly Sheldrii, a secret language found among a certain class of tramps in England and current among Irish tinkers, was discovered in 1876 by Charles Godfrey Leland, that ...

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 ...

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 ...