It’s the oldest language in Western Europe, but it’s not taught in many schools outside its native country. It’s misunderstood and often called by the wrong name. It’s Irish, and for the first time it ...

There’s a saying in Irish: “Tir gan teanga, tir gan anam.” A country without a language is a country without a soul. For the Irish, the fight for their language — for their soul — was a bloody one.

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, ...

The Irish language achieved full status as an official language of the European Union on January 1. As a full official language, all documents published by the EU will now be translated into Irish.

Irish is Ireland's first official language and there are parts of Ireland, called Gaeltacht areas, where Irish - also called Gaelic - is the official language of the community. But despite that, a ...