It’s the oldest language in Western Europe, but it’s not taught in many schools outside its native country. It’s misunderstood and often called by the wrong name. It’s Irish, and for the first time it ...

The Banshee, a Dorchester Avenue pub, comes alive with the authentic Irish language as speakers and learners chat and brush up on their skills in a once-per-month gathering.

The Irish language is rich in culture and history—so much so that an English dictionary is adopting some words and phrases to ...

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, ...

THE MORNING mist lay low over the fields of Fermanagh, clinging to the hedges and the black face of the bog as if it had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Head teacher Áine Ní Eachaín says more secondary schools are needed [BBC] There has been a rise of almost 400% over the past 25 ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. More than a decade after she moved to Canada from Ireland, Billie Shannon says she feels proud to be ...

There has been a rise of almost 400% over the past 25 years in the number of pupils in Irish-language education. That is according to new figures released by the Department of Education (DE). But that ...