Dyslexia Ireland CEO Rosie Bissett discusses Irish language exemptions, lack of resources and the need for better supports.

“There is that sense of Irish not being all that important, so you can opt out,” he says, believing it is often the “first ...

The free language-learning phone app Duolingo has reached an incredible one million Irish language learners around the world! It is just over a year since the Irish language course was released in ...

*Editor's Note: While this piece was originally published in 2014, Ireland is still fighting to preserve its native language In three years, we could have as many Irish speakers as Iceland's ...

Charles-Rose Greenhart (31) and their partner Raine Greenhart (29) moved from Seattle in the US to Dublin in April and are enrolled in an intensive Irish-language course. Charles-Rose was adopted by ...

Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day, but let's be honest: some people are more Irish than others. Take Dr. Mark Harman, for instance. Fluent in five languages, the Irish native says he has a ...

COLONIE – Their eyes were smiling to match the laughter as the students dove into their lesson of Irish Gaelic while a faint skirl of bagpipes sounded another class down the hall. What began as two ...

“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 ...

There’s a saying in Irish: “Tir gan teanga, tir gan anam.” A country without a language is a country without a soul. For the Irish, the fight for their language — for their soul — was a bloody one.

Poets from across the island of Ireland have gathered in west Belfast for an Irish language poetry slam competition. The event was initially set up nine years ago in response to the "big need" for a ...