Máire Ní Churraoin tells PEOPLE she's never spoken in English to her baby niece — instead, she speaks to her in Gaeilge, also ...

The death has been announced of the Irish language scholar Professor Máirtín Ó Murchú. He was Senior Professor at the School ...

For Eileen Walsh, who moved to the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester in 1969 from her home in Co Galway, hearing her mother tongue has profoundly affected her. “Listening to Gaelic brings about good ...

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, ...

Patrick O’Donovan obviously wasn’t around in the 1840s for the great famine in Ireland. But the more the country’s minister for culture, communications and sport researches and studies the subject, ...