The Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill passed its third and final reading in the UK’s House of Commons on Wednesday, October 26. The Bill will now go forward for Royal Assent and ...
The Government also intends to encourage Irish at all formal council meetings in Brussels and Luxembourg and during informal ...
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, ...
Linda Ervine sits on a replica of the ancient stone chair used to inaugurate the Gaelic Chieftains of Clandeboye in Northern Ireland. Ervine, founder of Northern Ireland's first integrated Irish ...
LONDON — Voters in Ireland rejected two proposed changes to the country’s constitution that would have removed language about women’s duties being in the home and broadened the definition of family ...
After decades of exodus, the tide of Irish migration took a definitive turn in the late 1980s, when the Irish diaspora started to come home. Maebh Walsh was one of those who returned. The 49-year-old ...
Máire Ní Churraoin tells PEOPLE she's never spoken in English to her baby niece — instead, she speaks to her in Gaeilge, also ...
DUBLIN (AP) — Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar conceded defeat Saturday as two constitutional amendments he supported that would have broadened the definition of family and removed language about a ...
A woman arrives to vote in a referendum on the proposed changes to the wording of the Constitution relating to the areas of family and care are seen at Treasa Naofa on Donore Avenue, Dublin , in ...
St. Patrick’s Day may have come and gone, but that doesn’t mean Irish culture is shelved here for the rest of the year. The traditions and culture of the Auld Sod are alive for the nearly half-million ...
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Seamus Heaney, one of the world's best-known poets and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature, died on Friday after a short illness at the age of 74, his family said. The ...