The growing trend of learning Irish online ...

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 ...

Irish is one of the 12 most at-risk languages in Europe and is in danger of vanishing over the next 100 years, according to a 2021 study. Language learning platform Busuu ranked the Irish language as ...

Handout photo dated 26/10/25 issued by Let's Learn Irish of a pop-up Gaeltacht in Istanbul.(Image: Caoimhe Nic Giollarnaith/Let's Learn Irish/PA Wire ) The boom in interest in Irish culture is helping ...

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A free online language learning service with more than 300 million users will launch its Scottish Gaelic course on St Andrew’s Day. Duolingo was launched in 2011 and now has more than 90 languages on ...

Kneecap and other artists using the Irish language in their work have been credited with the huge interest in Irish culture and learning Irish in particular. David Mc Cullagh spoke to academics and ...

When Joe Carroll’s son, Eoghan, was diagnosed with dyslexia, one of the first things he was told after the assessment was that he could get an exemption from Irish. His “visceral reaction” was to ...

“For any language to survive, it has to be culturally present.” That’s how Colm Bairéad, whose devastating first feature, “The Quiet Girl” (An Cailín Ciúin), is the first Irish-language production to ...