The Irish government decreed that if you failed Irish in your Leaving Cert, you failed the entire examination, even if you got As in everything else. And if you did your examination through Irish – ...
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Meet the teacher helping Irish Americans go back to their roots and learn to speak the Irish language
Exclusive: Mollie Guidera offers language lessons to Irish Americans reconnecting with their roots ...
The Irish Language Attitudes Survey 2025 released by Foras na Gaeilge alongside Trinity College reveals, for the first time, majority support for the Irish language in Northern Ireland ...
Sir, – For those of us fortunate enough to be fluent in Ireland’s two native languages, it will come as a surprise to learn about “the cultural colonisation of the public realm by Irish” (Letters, May ...
Gordon Lyons is the minister responsible for leading work on the language strategy Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has accused Sinn Féin of trying to build a false narrative that he is "hostile" to ...
An internationally renowned psychiatrist has highlighted the mental health benefits of learning Irish. Visiting west Belfast on Monday, Dr Pat Bracken argued that the “over medicalised” approach of ...
Campaigners have said Ireland should follow the example of Wales and mandate the Department of Education to increase access to Irish-medium education. The campaign group Irish Medium Education at ...
Stormont's First Minister has welcomed a judge's dismissal of a legal challenge against Belfast City Council's draft Irish language policy. The case against the proposal was taken by TUV member Ann ...
Belfast City Council procedures for reconsidering a proposed Irish language policy were not unlawful, a High Court judge ruled today. Mr Justice McLaughlin dismissed claims that the local authority’s ...
A legal challenge to Belfast City Council procedures, which could have an effect on its proposed new Irish language policy, has been dismissed. Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) member Ann McClure ...
Between Kneecap, CMAT's dual-language single Euro-Country and Jessie Buckley's closing words when accepting her Oscar, it feels like the Irish language is having a moment. Its renaissance in the ...
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