These native Irish speakers share how Ireland's ancient language and their homeland of Co Donegal have impacted their identity. Annemarie Ní Churreáin (poet & editor), Aoife Ní Ghloinn (Director of ...

DUBLIN -- From George Bernard Shaw to Samuel Beckett, from William Butler Yeats to James Joyce, the Irish have long been masters of the English language. It's the Irish language that has them ...

Thousands from across the island and beyond came together in Belfast for Oireachtas na Samhna, Ireland's oldest Irish ...

Rhiannon visits with Róisín Elsafty in the Gothic Church at Kylemore Abbey in Connemara. Róisín Elsafty is a native Irish speaker and singer in the sean-nós (“old time”) tradition who comes from a ...

Irish poet and philosopher John is laid to rest in Fanore, Co Clare, Ireland. O'Donohue was a native Irish speaker, a former priest, and author of books that provided sustenance for many souls ...

Ireland's Junior Eurovision Song Contest hopeful, Lottie O'Driscoll Murray, has debuted the video for her song Rúin.

A more ambitious plan is needed to improve the way Irish is taught in schools, Conradh na Gaeilge has said. Irish should be taught through the "skilled-based" Common European Framework for Reference ...