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.

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 ...

A legal challenge to Belfast City Council over its proposed new Irish language policy has been dismissed. Traditional ...

Belfast has been changing for a long time, and some people really don’t like that. The city council’s decision to adopt a new Irish language policy – with bilingual signage, translated materials, and ...

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 ...

Under British rule, Gaeilge became a minority language in Ireland, yet it was never allowed to die out and over the centuries, Ireland’s mother tongue was kept alive by people all over the island, ...

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 ...

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 ...