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.

Máiréad Ní Ghráda, whose books are now in the AIHS collection, was a pioneering figure of RTÉ’s Irish programming.

Students in Dublin hold up an Irish language badge that they designed to encourage young people to speak Irish, the national languageAndy Rain / EPA After decades of exodus, the tide of Irish ...

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 ...

Pól Deeds said "every word spoken against the Irish language" could be seen as "another blow struck in the cause of Irish unification" Hostility towards the Irish language is not doing unionism "any ...

Irish is Ireland's first official language and there are parts of Ireland, called Gaeltacht areas, where Irish - also called Gaelic - is the official language of the community. But despite that, 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 ...