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'Speaking Irish is everything' - Belfast hosts thousands for language festival

What does your language mean to you? Identity, culture, self expression - these are some of the reasons language speakers are determined to speak and maintain their native tongue, and the thousands of ...

Irish language commissioner highlights ‘concerning pattern’ of missed deadlines

Government failures to implement language rights protections highlighted in An Coimisinéir Teanga’s annual report ...
Newsweek

What Paul Mescal Said in Irish at the BAFTAs

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Paul Mescal's viral interview on the BAFTA Awards red carpet has been ...
Irish Central

Irish language spoken for first time at British Prime Minister's Questions in Westminster

Claire Hanna, the leader of Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), marked St. Patrick's Day and Seachtain na Gaeilge by speaking in the Irish language while addressing British ...
Irish Central

Irish activists banned from speaking Irish at pro-Palestinian event in Berlin

Irish Bloc Berlin, which describes itself as a "Berlin-based platform for Irish solidarity with Palestine," says it was told by German police to stop using the Irish language during a pro-Palestinian ...
The Irish Times

‘I’m learning Irish. I need to get comfortable with not being any good for a long time’

I grew up in Catalonia and, until the age of 15, attended my local state school where every subject was taught in Catalan. Catalan wasn’t the topic of education; it was the medium of education. Yet ...
Los Angeles Times

The Irish language once provoked ‘strong resistance.’ Now it has a place at the Oscars

“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 ...