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 — ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Strengthening Irish is portrayed not as a nationalist victory but as correcting the wrongs of colonialism and partition. Nic ...
Máire Ní Churraoin and her niece. Máire Ní Churraoin is proud to be from an Irish-speaking region in Ireland — and she's hoping to pass on that passion to the next generation. The creator, who has ...
“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 ...
I distinctly remember approaching my teacher at the top of the class on my first day of school. I cleared my throat, tugged on her top and said, “Can you say the words in English ‘cause I don’t have ...
Brooklyn native Séamus Ó Fianghusa has never uttered a single word of English to his nine-year-old daughter Áine. He attributes her current fluency in Irish to the fact that “before she was even born, ...
Máiréad Ní Ghráda, whose books are now in the AIHS collection, was a pioneering figure of RTÉ’s Irish programming.