The responses showed that young people wanted to learn Irish and be able to speak the language, but that the current ...

Taking up a language is an exciting, challenging resolution to take up for the new year. If you're determined to learn ...

The free language-learning phone app Duolingo has reached an incredible one million Irish language learners around the world! It is just over a year since the Irish language course was released in ...

*Editor's Note: While this piece was originally published in 2014, Ireland is still fighting to preserve its native language In three years, we could have as many Irish speakers as Iceland's ...

Jess Casey discovers how activities such as dodgeball in UCC’s Barr na gCnoc initiative give children a natural entry into ...

Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day, but let's be honest: some people are more Irish than others. Take Dr. Mark Harman, for instance. Fluent in five languages, the Irish native says he has a ...

Charles-Rose Greenhart (31) and their partner Raine Greenhart (29) moved from Seattle in the US to Dublin in April and are enrolled in an intensive Irish-language course. Charles-Rose was adopted by ...

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 ...

Poets from across the island of Ireland have gathered in west Belfast for an Irish language poetry slam competition. The event was initially set up nine years ago in response to the "big need" for a ...