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
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Hector Ó hEochagáin: ‘I’m a hippie. That’s why we live in Galway. It attracts bohemians’
Hector Ó hEochagáin, the presenter and author, on his love of the Irish language, life in the parish and a novel way to stop thumb-sucking
Row over Belfast Irish-language signs to advance to full hearing as Ministerial talks fail
Loyalist activist Jamie Bryson seeking to review approval of Irish signs at Grand Central Station
Northern Ireland’s long argument over Irish language is either going to end or get worse
An Irish language commissioner, an Ulster Scots commissioner and an Office of Identity and Cultural Expression have just been appointed, a classic three legged stool
Daily Telegraph’s agony aunt faces a conundrum – a mother worried that her son is turning ‘Irish’
We are well used in this country to visitors outdoing us in the performative aspects of Irishness
Catherine Connolly wants to make Irish working language of Áras when she takes office
President-elect plans to ‘bring in Irish from the margins’ amid other priorities including disability
Public bodies increase spend on Irish language advertising
About €19 million was spent on Irish language advertising by 397 public bodies and companies last year
‘It could make a difference’: Endometriosis researcher exploring how to calm inflammation
Research Lives: Seoda Ní Chaoimh, research master’s student at the University of Limerick
‘I’ve got an amazing múinteoir’: Kara Owen, the new British ambassador to Ireland
Owen talks about her marriage to a Galwegian, the Irish phrases that were common in her Cumbrian childhood, and her daunting Irish-speaking debut with Michael D Higgins
Court allows legal challenge over Stormont’s failure to deliver Irish language strategy
Conradh na Gaeilge asked for judicial review over lack of progress on initiative agreed in 2006
‘Almost like a tsunami now’: Irish language draws younger voters to Catherine Connolly
Irish Times opinion poll features ‘speaks Irish’ as a choice for ‘most important’ value in presidential candidate for first time
‘People here are horrified’: Irish-language signs vandalised in affluent east Belfast
The PSNI describes it as ‘hate-motivated criminal damage’, while a TUV member calls it ‘probably the most predictable crime in Northern Ireland’
‘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
No, the Irish language does not ‘belong to us all’. Stop insisting that it does
A row over Irish language signs in a leafy part of east Belfast taps into deeper divisions
Guarded welcome for €23m Irish language increase in budget
Concerns remain about Foras na Gaeilge’s cross-Border funding model
The Irish Times view on Manchán Magan: a singular expressive voice
Ireland has lost a communicator of rare talent
AI is smart, just don’t ask it to speak the Irish language
Chatbots inability to grasp Irish underscores gaps in AI systems
New arrivals to Ireland learning Irish: ‘I’m praying to St Patrick because he somehow learned this language’
Growing numbers of adults who have moved to Ireland from overseas are choosing to learn Irish
Two out of three candidates for the presidency can’t speak fluent Irish. That matters
During the 2011 general election campaign, the leaders of the three main parties debated in Irish. That can’t happen now
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
Morgana: ‘Rents are too high, it’s too expensive to live, but I will cling on to Ireland’
Singer-songwriter Morgan MacIntyre - aka Morgana - on the Irish language, moving across the Border and her new single
Ninety-nine words for rain in Irish: could it actually be true?
Manchán Magan has set out to collate as many weather words in Irish as he can. Bear in mind that it will rain hard if a leprechaun of the ditch comes into the kitchen
Foras na Gaeilge has driven Irish language growth in the North, says report
Report examines operation of all cross-border bodies set up by the Belfast Agreement
Solve two Dublin problems in one go: put Molly Malone on Daniel O’Connell’s plinth
Plus: Fine Gael’s summer of fun, a bad year for trout and a good opportunity for the ríomhaire
The challenges of creating the new Irish dictionary: ‘There was no word for avocado’
Patrick Freyne speaks to the chief editor of the new monolingual Irish dictionary, due to launch in October
Leaving Cert results 2025: Five key takeaways
Class of 2025 is largest group to sit the Leaving Cert for the first time - which may impact CAO
A life’s work reviving the Irish language - Oliver O’Hanlon on Liam Ó Briain
The playwright Seán O’Casey was the first person that Ó Briain spoke Irish with
Lost in translation? Spain’s scandal-hit prime minister bets on EU support for Catalan, Basque and Galician
Recognition of Catalan as official EU language would buy Pedro Sánchez breathing space during domestic crisis
New Laureate for fiction Éilís Ní Dhuibhne: ‘I was part of a movement of women writers of Ireland’
The new Laureate for Irish Fiction on language, grief and how reading a book as Gaeilge isn’t as hard as you think
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
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
Talos: Ólafur Arnalds on finishing Eoin French’s final album – ‘A lot of the time I could feel him next to me ’
For the Icelandic musician A Dawning is not a project about death so much as an outpouring of joy and an acknowledgment of the preciousness of life
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
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