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 ...

From discovering the true meaning to "Dia Dhuit" to figuring out things you really need to say, this Irish American has discovered just how challenging Irish can be... and how rewarding. I love ...

Teachers and students are taking to TikTok to promote the Irish language to hundreds of thousands of people online in a newly emerging digital trend. The hashtag ‘irishlanguage’ has been used on ...

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 ...

Sir, – In school I was led to believe that languages were not my strong suit, and I was better off sticking with the sciences. This despite a grudging grá for our native tongue fuelled by annual trips ...

Noah Higgs hated learning Irish in school. He hated the way it was taught, overly formal and disconnected from ordinary people’s lives. Most of all he hated the effect the lessons had on his fellow ...

Learning to speak Irish fluently had not been part of my plan after war forced me to flee my hometown in Sumy, Ukraine, for a new life abroad. And yet here I am, four years later, taking classes with ...