The figures from Ireland’s Census 2016 show 73,803 people, of the total population of 4.75 million, speak Irish daily. This equates to 1.7 percent of the population. This is a slight decrease from the ...

Claire Hanna, the leader of Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), marked St. Patrick's Day and Seachtain na Gaeilge by speaking in the Irish language while addressing British ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Biden speaks to journalists before a meeting with Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office of the White House on March ...

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 — ...

“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 ...

A MAP HAS been shared online that purports to show the second-most-spoken language in each of Ireland’s county council areas — but it contains false information. Despite claims that the map is based ...

In theory, a certain number of new homes in any housing development within the Gaeltacht must be allocated to Irish speakers.

DUBLIN — Like Henry Higgins, the phonetician from George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion,” Marius Cotescu and Georgi Tinchev recently demonstrated how their student was trying to overcome pronunciation ...