There’s a saying in Irish: “Tir gan teanga, tir gan anam.” A country without a language is a country without a soul. For the Irish, the fight for their language — for their soul — was a bloody one.

A view of the countryside in Connemara, Ireland; a road sign in English and Gaeilge in Connemara, Ireland. Owner and chef Diarmuid Ó Mathúna, who is from Watergrasshill (Cnocán na Biolraí), in County ...

Students in Dublin hold up an Irish language badge that they designed to encourage young people to speak Irish, the national languageAndy Rain / EPA After decades of exodus, the tide of Irish ...

Pól Deeds said "every word spoken against the Irish language" could be seen as "another blow struck in the cause of Irish unification" Hostility towards the Irish language is not doing unionism "any ...

COLONIE – Their eyes were smiling to match the laughter as the students dove into their lesson of Irish Gaelic while a faint skirl of bagpipes sounded another class down the hall. What began as two ...

The new policy aims to promote the use of Irish in public life, including the usage of bilingual signage.

Máire Ní Churraoin tells PEOPLE she's never spoken in English to her baby niece — instead, she speaks to her in Gaeilge, also known as Irish Gaelic Máire Ní Churraoin grew up in an Irish-speaking ...

The bill will put a duty on Stormont to provide free classes for deaf people under-25 and their close families, guardians, ...

An Irish-language act should not be the cause for the collapse of talks in Northern Ireland. Blaming the unionists for the last minute failure of the negotiations to re-establish the power-sharing ...