Mark Drakeford, the Welsh government's language secretary, said political agreement on Irish would be "healing rather than ...

The rights of such people to deal in their own language (also our official first language) with State bodies ... equal rights and such rights for Irish people and Irish speakers are not a waste ...

During the inter-war years, nationalist ideology, incorporating both the Irish language and Catholicism, served as an instrument of state consolidation. Élites utilized this communal “glue ...

The Irish language achieved full status as an official language of the European Union on January 1. As a full official language, all documents published by the EU will now be translated into Irish.

There are plenty of words that have different meanings in different countries, and if you're not careful, you could end up ...

Funding comes from TG4, the Irish-language broadcaster established in 1996; Screen Ireland, the state film agency; and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. The goal is to help mainstream the ...

In 2022, the country's Identity and Language Act passed, granting Irish an equal status to English. It established the Irish language commissioner to develop Irish in Northern Ireland, repealed ...

The state's policy towards the Irish language, for instance, is not the subject of any of the 50 essays in Ireland 1922: Independence, Partition, Civil War. Considering the role played by language ...

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