The Irish have a rich tradition of storytelling and poetry, with their language full of colorful and insightful sayings and phrases that reflect their history, culture, and values. Irish sayings and ...
A new policy and a plan to strengthen the teaching, learning and use of Irish language in schools has been announced. Minister for Education and Youth Helen McEntee unveiled the policy for ...
The Irish language is having its moment — from the first-of-its-kind dictionary aimed at ending the need to understand Irish ...
Ireland is finally taking ownership of its native tongue. We are acknowledging that our cultural identity is fite fuaite – interwoven with the words we use and the world they shape. Making Irish the ...
Seven thousand Irish-language activists took to the streets of Belfast earlier in May to lobby for the implementation of an Irish language act which has been denied them since it was promised in the ...
“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 ...
After decades of exodus, the tide of Irish migration took a definitive turn in the late 1980s, when the Irish diaspora started to come home. Maebh Walsh was one of those who returned. The 49-year-old ...