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, ...

Lesser-known key figures and unsung heroes behind the decades-long preservation of the Irish language in west Belfast have been spotlighted in a new exhibition. The old drying rooms in historic Conway ...

Seanscéal agus meirg air, meaning “stale news”, or, more literally, “an old story with rust on it”. This figure of speech aptly describes the annual spilling of ink over the status of the Irish ...

Belfast, United Kingdom – The government of the United Kingdom has introduced legislation to protect the Irish language in Northern Ireland for the first time. The UK’s main representative in Northern ...

The son of the late DUP leader Ian Paisley has said his father would have been “deeply interested” in an Irish language event he took part in at a Free Presbyterian Church. The Rev Kyle Paisley, a ...

BELFAST — In a colorful modular building monitored by CCTV cameras, Ciara Moore sat in front of seven squirmy 4-year-olds and did something that some people here in the capital of Northern Ireland — ...