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 ...

Delve into the soil and soul of Ireland with Scoil Scairte's Self-Paced language immersion. Scoil Scairte is an award-winning cultural learning experience made by The Trailblazery Ireland in ...

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, ...

Protestors outside the High Court in Belfast in February 2017 calling for an Irish Language Act. Niall Carson/PA Wire One of the central sticking points of the talks is the Irish language – also known ...

The Irish language gained full official and working status in the European Union on Saturday, culminating a derogation arrangement that has been in place since 2007, the government of Ireland ...

UNTIL March 31st all seemed well at the four clubs in Belfast where youngsters can go after school to socialise, get local history lessons with a radical slant and sign up for hiking trips, all in ...

In Northern Ireland, learning a second language is not a statutory part of the primary school curriculum. shutterstock In Northern Ireland, pupils must only learn a language between the ages of 11 and ...

BELFAST — There’s a sign on the Falls Road announcing that you have entered the “Gaeltacht Quarter,” a pocket of Catholic West Belfast where the Irish language — at least a wee bit of it — is spoken ...

People in the Republic learn Irish "to pass exams" but in Northern Ireland they are motivated by the love of it, an official study has found. The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) said the ...

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 ...

DUBLIN — Shoved off the radar by arguments over Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union and the sexual harassment scandals in the British Parliament, Northern Ireland is quietly falling deep into ...