Mark Wallace, the owner of the Rex Bar in Belfast’s Shankill Road, knows just two phrases in Irish. The first is “Shankill” – ...

Catherine Clinch plays Cáit in the Irish language film “An Cailín Ciúin” (”The Quiet Girl”). Ireland is famous for its literary output, claiming four Nobel laureates in literature and countless other ...

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, ...

“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 ...

Belfast has been changing for a long time, and some people really don’t like that. The city council’s decision to adopt a new Irish language policy – with bilingual signage, translated materials, and ...

It's a remarkably cool time to be Irish. Cillian Murphy has his Oscar, Paul Mescal wears his short shorts, and Sally Rooney's forthcoming novel is one of the most anticipated of the year. It was only ...

What does your language mean to you? Identity, culture, self expression - these are some of the reasons language speakers are determined to speak and maintain their native tongue, and the thousands of ...

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 ...