Just three of the candidates in Galway West, home of Ireland’s largest Gaeltacht community, say they can speak Irish ...

The communities minister was responding to concerns about funding for a project that helps with Irish-English street sign ...

Students in Dublin hold up an Irish language badge that they designed to encourage young people to speak Irish, the national languageAndy Rain / EPA After decades of exodus, the tide of Irish ...

Foras na Gaeilge study found 78% supported the language in the Republic, and 55% in Northern Ireland ...

The Irish language has had a major comeback in the last number of years with secondary students helping to drive its revival ...

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, ...

Protestors outside the High Court in Belfast in February 2017 calling for an Irish Language Act. Niall Carson/PA Wire One of the central sticking points of the talks is the Irish language – also known ...

The amount of people speaking Irish in Ireland saw a slight decline between 2011 and 2016. The Irish language is still being spoken all across Ireland today, from small rural areas to bigger urban ...

In Northern Ireland, learning a second language is not a statutory part of the primary school curriculum. shutterstock In Northern Ireland, pupils must only learn a language between the ages of 11 and ...