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 ...

There’s a saying in Irish: “Tir gan teanga, tir gan anam.” A country without a language is a country without a soul. For the Irish, the fight for their language — for their soul — was a bloody one.

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 ...

A view of the countryside in Connemara, Ireland; a road sign in English and Gaeilge in Connemara, Ireland. Owner and chef Diarmuid Ó Mathúna, who is from Watergrasshill (Cnocán na Biolraí), in County ...

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 ...

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 ...

Under British rule, Gaeilge became a minority language in Ireland, yet it was never allowed to die out and over the centuries, Ireland’s mother tongue was kept alive by people all over the island, ...

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