Department admits the long-awaited strategy will not happen before the mandate ends next year ...

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 ...

Twitter users were quick to contradict a 2018 statistic that claimed 72% of Irish people had no foreign language skills. Mapsome, a social media account that aims to "explain the world" by sharing ...

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, ...

Protestors outside the High Court in Belfast in February 2017 calling for an Irish Language Act. Niall Carson/PA Wire One of the central sticking points of the talks is the Irish language – also known ...

The Northern Ireland Place-Name Project was set up in the 1980s to research the meanings of local place names.

The Irish language gained full official and working status in the European Union on Saturday, culminating a derogation arrangement that has been in place since 2007, the government of Ireland ...

Linda Ervine sits on a replica of the ancient stone chair used to inaugurate the Gaelic Chieftains of Clandeboye in Northern Ireland. Ervine, founder of Northern Ireland's first integrated Irish ...

Irish language commissioner Pol Deeds has been criticised at a meeting of the Stormont Executive Office scrutiny committee ...

Wednesday, 13 May, 2026: Your evening catch-up on the Northern Ireland news making the headlines ...