Bill 96, the new language law that came into effect June 1, proposes that a municipality's bilingual status be revoked in places where fewer than 50 per cent of citizens have English as a mother ...

The next big migration was around the time of the Great Famine in the mid 1800s, he said, when people in Ireland suffered starvation and disease. "By the time that 1871 census came around, 100,000 ...

SPEAKING at a Sinn Fein Conference at Enniscorthy yesterday, Mr [Éamon] de Valera said that never before was Irish ...

Porturlin, Co Mayo. (Eamonn Coyle) Today, while the language weakens in the Gaeltacht, Irish is finding new life in urban areas through Gaelscoileanna and state investment.

Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchán Magan is out now (Bonnier Books, £16.99). You can buy it from The Big Issue shop on Bookshop.org, which helps to support The ...

Mr Lyons, due before the communities committee on Thursday, is involved in another legal action as he was granted participation status over Irish language signs at Grand Central Station.

The poems in the dual-language volume are beautifully translated to English by Theo Dorgan. The only novel to come my way was Bódlaer (Leabhar Breac), by Darach Ó Scolaí – but what a gem.

He grew up speaking English, but learned the Irish language in school and from visiting the Irish-speaking region of Connemara in western Ireland, for immersion camps, before completing a bachelor's ...