The responses showed that young people wanted to learn Irish and be able to speak the language, but that the current ...

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 has been a central part of President Catherine Connolly's political life and of her election campaign for the presidency. When she initially decided to run, her first public ...

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 ...