Do you speak Irish? A growing number of people are picking up Ireland’s native language, both inside the country and here in ...
Every Thursday, I give God. I agonized over writing that sentence, the first in the college essay about studying Irish that I was convinced would determine my future. I was applying early decision to ...
Legendary Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko once said that nations don’t die from heart attacks. First, their language is taken ...
Teachers and students are taking to TikTok to promote the Irish language to hundreds of thousands of people online in a newly emerging digital trend. The hashtag ‘irishlanguage’ has been used on ...
Language shapes our understanding of the world, our sense of selves and connects us to our culture. But the UN estimates that ...
Kneecap and other artists using the Irish language in their work have been credited with the huge interest in Irish culture and learning Irish in particular. David Mc Cullagh spoke to academics and ...
Here's how you can learn the Irish language for free online no matter where in the world you are. Learning Irish can be an expensive business if you’re located outside of Ireland. (And just to be ...
Rather than wielding Gaeilge like a weapon, people are using it as a paintbrush to bring colour and vibrancy to every ...
Jim Flanagan, right, a native of Ballyvourney in the West Cork Gaeltacht, Ireland, leads an Irish language workshop in a classroom at Butte Central High School Friday morning during the An Ri Ra ...
“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 ...