Every Thursday, I give God. I agonized over writing that sentence, the first in the college essay about studying Irish that I was convinced would determine my future. I was applying early decision to ...

Learn Irish for free online with this incredible course developed by some of Ireland's best Irish-language teachers. Learning any language is hard but one of the biggest difficulties for people around ...

A new exhibition celebrates the history of Manx Gaelic and the part it plays in modern day society.

(Mass Appeal) – The Irish season is upon us and I thought it would fun for all of us to learn a few Irish language phrases so that we can impress our friends and family at any upcoming St. Patrick’s ...

Language shapes our understanding of the world, our sense of selves and connects us to our culture. But the UN estimates that at least half of all languages spoken around the world will be extinct or ...

Launched to coincide with St Andrew’s Day this year on November 30, language app Duolingo’s Gaelic course attracted an impressive 103,000 active learners in its first two weeks – outstripping the ...

If you grew up in the 1990s or 2000s, you may have heard the term ‘dead language’ used when talking about Irish. While Irish speakers have always existed, they became harder to find in the 20th ...

Jewish children are being taught the Gaelic language in the public schools of the Irish Free State, since the study of the old Irish language was made compulsory in the public schools by the Free ...

Learning to speak Irish fluently had not been part of my plan after war forced me to flee my hometown in Sumy, Ukraine, for a new life abroad. And yet here I am, four years later, taking classes with ...