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 ...

Belfast has been changing for a long time, and some people really don’t like that. The city council’s decision to adopt a new Irish language policy – with bilingual signage, translated materials, and ...

The impending resignation of Irish Language Commissioner Seán Ó Cuirreáin on February 23 has sparked a wave of protest all over Ireland. On Saturday, February 15 speakers and supporters of the Irish ...

Ireland has a languages question. Can the official policy of renewing the Irish language to make citizens bilingual with English or multilingual with third languages match the actual overwhelming ...

Pól Deeds said "every word spoken against the Irish language" could be seen as "another blow struck in the cause of Irish unification" Hostility towards the Irish language is not doing unionism "any ...

‘CEARTA: A National Protest for the Irish language and the Gaeltacht' will take place on Saturday, September 20 in Dublin. Conradh na Gaeilge, the democratic forum for the Irish-speaking community, ...

Irish is Ireland's first official language and there are parts of Ireland, called Gaeltacht areas, where Irish - also called Gaelic - is the official language of the community. But despite that, a ...

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 ...

The new policy aims to promote the use of Irish in public life, including the usage of bilingual signage.