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 ...

Here's how you can learn the Irish language for free online no matter where in the world you are. Learning Irish can be an expensive business if you’re located outside of Ireland. (And just to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jim Flanagan, right, a native of Ballyvourney in the West Cork Gaeltacht, Ireland, leads an Irish language workshop in a classroom at Butte Central High School Friday morning during the An Ri Ra ...

Language shapes our understanding of the world, our sense of selves and connects us to our culture. But the UN estimates that at least half of all languages spoken around the world will be extinct or ...

Launched to coincide with St Andrew’s Day this year on November 30, language app Duolingo’s Gaelic course attracted an impressive 103,000 active learners in its first two weeks – outstripping the ...