An Erasmus for Irish?
Spending six months in a Gaeltacht would greatly improve students’ Irish language skills
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Meet the Irish college class of summer 2026: ‘Students don’t really miss the phone’
Students in the Gaeltacht discuss pros and cons of attending Irish college
Former monastery should be bought to secure Dublin Gaelcholáiste’s future, say campaigners
Christian Brothers building on market for €3.75m next to Synge Street campus where transition to Irish is beginning
Planning rules for one-off housing to be eased under new proposals
Changes will be a ‘loosening’ of current restrictions but ‘not a free for all’, Government source says
‘We need a culture where people don’t just sell their house to the highest bidder’
New project aims to reduce number of vacant properties in Gaeltacht areas and make them available for Irish speakers
State’s failure to provide homes for Irish speakers ‘threatening future of language’
Young adults cannot remain in Gaeltacht areas because of high prices, holiday homes and planning rules, Oireachtas committee told
Housing crisis could be the ‘death’ of the Irish language, protest hears
Demonstration aimed at highlighting ‘disproportionate’ impact shortage of affordable housing having on Gaeltacht areas
Adults aged under 35 and women most enthusiastic about learning Irish language, survey finds
Survey on behalf of Údarás na Gaeltachta measures public attitudes towards Irish language and Gaeltacht
Campaigners warn Irish language action plan may fail to meet public service targets
Action Plan for Irish Language Public Services 2026-2028 is the first of two implementation plans to be implemented by 2030.
Teacher with 15 years’ experience facing €4,000 cost to pursue career in Ireland
‘I don’t think people realise just how many obstacles there are for teachers who qualify abroad’, says Sinéad Ryan
Annemarie Ní Churreáin: ‘There’s a deep respect embedded in Gaeltacht culture for troublemakers’
Poet reflects on how here upbringing has shaped her works, including her latest collection Hymn to All the Restless Girls
Irish-language education policy ‘ignores elephant in the room’, advocacy groups warn
Patron body says ‘little progress’ made on similar goals announced 20 years ago
‘We were viewed as the weirdos’: Doireann Ní Ghlacáin on growing up in an Irish-speaking family
Fiddle player, sean nós singer and presenter Doireann Ní Ghlacáin on growing up speaking Irish in Dublin, her hit podcast How to Gael, and her new show about Irish womanhood
Thousands march in Dublin to demand greater Irish-language rights and help for Gaeltacht
Demonstrators want action on housing and education, look for help in next month’s budget
Deirdre Ní Choistín: ‘When TG4 was established, people said this is a waste of money’
Deirdre Ní Choistín, árd stiúrthóir of TG4, says the station is a key part of the current revival of the Irish language
Going to the Gaeltacht as an adult: All of the giddiness of a teenage trip with none of the awkwardness
The schedule is split between classes, social events, cultural evenings and getting to know the area
Grown-up Gaeltacht: ‘The week I spent in Ring - the people I met, the culture - was the best thing I could have done’
More adult Irish language students from Ireland and overseas are signing up for courses in Gaeltacht areas
‘Here comes everybody’: Connemara fishermen lead seafaring pilgrimage to patron saint MacDara
About 500 people on 85 boats made the annual journey to the saint’s uninhabited island off Co Galway’s western shores
Retired garda can challenge Garda Commissioner over loss of Irish-speaking allowance, court rules
High Court allows retired Donegal sergeant to take case to have his Gaeltacht allowance restored over claim of losses to pension
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne on the best Irish language books of 2025 so far
Including a history of the Gaeltacht Civil Rights Movements, a gem of a novel by Darach Ó Scolaí and Joe McHugh’s entertaining account of learning Irish
Transformed Donegal Gaeltacht cottage in an epic setting for €1.375m
Horizon House is perfectly positioned to offer stunning sunset views
‘Arts’ dropped as a name of a Government department amid reshuffle by Coalition
Tourism and Gaeltacht move to other portfolios from Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
Could Ireland’s housing crisis kill the Irish language?
In the News podcast: Irish language campaigners say the lack of housing and oversupply of holiday homes in Gaeltacht areas is displacing native speakers from their home counties
Airbnb landlords and holiday home owners are squeezing native speakers out of Gaeltacht areas
A consequence of the housing crisis is that it is accelerating the decline of the Irish language
As Fergus Finlay and Tom Clonan’s spat escalates, Sarah McInerney relishes the radio gold
Radio: The whiff of cordite in the RTÉ studio is strong enough to warrant a UN peacekeeping mandate of its own
Irish language workers stage half-day strike in protest at funding cuts
Activists and community groups call for ‘long-term solution’ to underfunding of Irish language sector
‘The phone would ring and it would be Mike Scott from the Waterboys or Bono from U2. Everyone wanted to talk to my father’
Film-maker, photographer and writer Bob Quinn has always refused to conform, but people seemed to love him for it, writes his son
‘A Gaeltacht-driven movement’: The civil rights agitation that spawned Raidió na Gaeltachta and TG4
Author and Irish language activist Máirtín Ó Cadhain prepared the ground for the Gaeltacht Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s with ‘his own agitation’
From Transylvania to Donegal: The Irish are much better at ‘being joyful’
Columbia Hillen moved from Transylvania to Donegal’s Gaeltacht region in 2010
‘The Bean an Tí looked shocked to see a Chinese girl speaking Irish’
Eva Pau, commercial director of family business Asia Market, on being immersed in Irish culture from an early age
Language watchdog checking if enough secondary education through Irish is being offered
Language rights ombudsman reviewing Department of Education compliance with statutory obligations under the Education Act
‘I am keen on making my kids deal with uncomfortable situations, but my daughter is struggling’
Ask the Expert: 'Is there something we should do to boost her confidence?'
Gaeltacht housing crisis: ‘We have nowhere else to go. What are we supposed to do? We’re too old to get a mortgage’
There is ‘a dangerous lack of long-term rental property’ in rural areas, with holiday rentals lying idle most of the year and families priced out of buying
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