The battle over the Irish language in Northern Ireland

Popularity is soaring across Northern Ireland, but dual-language sign policies agitate division as unionists accuse nationalists of cultural erosion ...
IrishCentral

Irish language TikToker's book published in the US finally gets it's Ireland launch

After a surprise approach from an American publishing giant, Laura Pakenham’s Irish language journey has come full circle at ...
Irish Central

Northern Ireland's "long overdue" Irish language bill passes final stages in UK Parliament

The Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill passed its third and final reading in the UK’s House of Commons on Wednesday, October 26. The Bill will now go forward for Royal Assent and ...
TheJournal.ie on MSN

Government unlikely to achieve its Irish language recruitment goals by 2030, committee hears

The government’s goal will not be achieved unless the proportion of third-level courses taught through Irish increases from ...
Time

Ireland’s Language Dilemma

After decades of exodus, the tide of Irish migration took a definitive turn in the late 1980s, when the Irish diaspora started to come home. Maebh Walsh was one of those who returned. The 49-year-old ...
National Catholic Reporter

Protests against language school show Northern Ireland's post-Brexit divisions

Linda Ervine sits on a replica of the ancient stone chair used to inaugurate the Gaelic Chieftains of Clandeboye in Northern Ireland. Ervine, founder of Northern Ireland's first integrated Irish ...
The Spokesman-Review

Ireland rejects constitution changes, keeps ‘women in the home’ language

LONDON — Voters in Ireland rejected two proposed changes to the country’s constitution that would have removed language about women’s duties being in the home and broadened the definition of family ...
WWLP-22News

The Big E to showcase Ireland’s history, culture & language

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The “Halfway to Saint Patrick’s Day” weekend celebration, sponsored by Aer Lingus, kicks off Sept. 15 at The Big E. For 23 years, Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula has ...
New York Post

Ireland rejects controversial constitutional amendments changing language on family, women

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has conceded defeat in the vote over two constitutional amendments that would have broadened the definition of family and removed language about a woman’s role at ...
PBS

Voters in Ireland reject changes to constitutional language about family and women

DUBLIN (AP) — Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar conceded defeat Saturday as two constitutional amendments he supported that would have broadened the definition of family and removed language about a ...

Woman Wants to Pass on Her Love of the Irish Language. So She Decides to Talk to Her Baby Niece Exclusively in Gaeilge (Exclusive)

Máire Ní Churraoin tells PEOPLE she's never spoken in English to her baby niece — instead, she speaks to her in Gaeilge, also ...
Reuters

Ireland mourns 'keeper of language' poet Seamus Heaney

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Seamus Heaney, one of the world's best-known poets and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature, died on Friday after a short illness at the age of 74, his family said. The ...