The Internet bid ‘Cead Mile Failte’ to the newest English-Irish dictionary in over 50 years on Wednesday. Folcoir.ie is backed by Foras na Gailege, the body responsible for the promotion of the Irish ...

In 1948, the Irish-language writer Máirtín Ó Cadhain received the kind of rejection letter a novelist might dream of getting. He had submitted his foul-mouthed first novel, “Cré na Cille” (“Churchyard ...

In Belfast for a short period a few months ago, there was an outbreak of nonsense. There, on a hard-won bilingual street sign off the Ormeau Road, an entirely new Irish word was coined. Where it ...

A 19th-century Irish translation of the epic English language poem Paradise Lost, long believed by scholars to be lost, has been rediscovered in a collection held by an American university. The ...

An ancient language and one of the most popular video games of the past year have collided with the launch of the official Irish localization of Among Us. The hugely popular sci-fi whodunnit game is ...

An Irish language campaigner has quit a group engaging with Belfast City Council over its language policy. Dr Liam Andrews was a member of the Irish Language Community Stakeholder Forum, but the west ...

The achievements of Irish speaker and translator Maighréad Nic Mhaicín have been remembered at her former school in Belfast almost 125 years after her birth. Also a writer and scholar of Russian, Ms ...