Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish Language Week), the largest Irish festival in the world, will run for an extra long period from March 1 to 17 this year. The public is invited to participate in the ...

Ireland's official language is Irish, but only a small percentage of the population can speak it fluently and even fewer use it on a daily basis. So is the Irish language hard to learn? Gaeilge (Irish ...

Action Plan for Irish Language Public Services 2026-2028 is the first of two implementation plans to be implemented by 2030.

“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 ...

Donegal-based Éabhlóid published more books in 2025 than ever before. The lively Cló Iar Chonacht brought out almost a dozen and the other major Irish language publishers, Leabhar Comhar, Leabhar ...

The following article is republished as part of a collaboration with Wikimedia Community Ireland and was originally published on their website on July 28, 2025. On July 14, 2025, Wikimedia Community ...

It's a remarkably cool time to be Irish. Cillian Murphy has his Oscar, Paul Mescal wears his short shorts, and Sally Rooney's forthcoming novel is one of the most anticipated of the year. It was only ...

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