Just as we explored why the dive bar is so difficult to define, trying to capture what makes a pub is no small feat. The matter is even more complicated when peering through the microscope of cultural ...

The life of the mind puzzles poets and neuroscientists who go about mapping it and labeling it, and, in my case, trying to find it. Thought itself is something to ponder in the Irish tradition and so, ...

Judges warned in 2004 that demands caused by the use of the Irish language in courts in Northern Ireland had the potential to ...

Giving ‘preferred language’ option would slow down proceedings and potentially lead to challenges, senior officer said ...

You may hear an "Erin go bragh" and a "sláinte" or two this St. Patrick's Day, but even on the most Irish of holidays, we don't hear much of the Irish language — which is a shame! Irish is so ...

The death has occurred in Dublin of the writer Seán Mac Mathúna, aged 89. A native of Co Kerry, he was among a small number ...

When the Republic of Ireland under-17 team defeated Andorra 5-0 in Cork last October, not many beyond the participants paid the result much attention and, understandably, few of them will have ...

DCU Sealbhú's consultation with students, parents, and teachers is timely given the upsurge of interest in Gaeilge evident in ...

A groundbreaking new monolingual Irish dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge, the body responsible for the promotion of the Irish language throughout the island of Ireland, was launched this week by ...