The Irish Times

Fearmhíniú (mansplaining), báinín (flat white) and other Irish words for modern life

What do the words bingewatch, podcast, doomscrolling, prinks, and ghosting have in common? They are examples of words that have entered everyday speech in recent years – chances are you used at least ...
Opinion

Patrick Murphy: Irish must be part of a new Ireland — but first it must help unite the present

Our unending loyalty to sectarianism has now been extended to language ...
The Irish Times

Parent-led campaign to push for legislation guaranteeing right to Irish language education

Campaigners have said Ireland should follow the example of Wales and mandate the Department of Education to increase access to Irish-medium education. The campaign group Irish Medium Education at ...
Irish Central

Hundreds protest Ireland's "broken" Irish language education system in Dublin

More than 500 demonstrators, including students, third-level students, teachers, parents, representatives from the teacher unions, representatives from Irish-language organizations, and other groups, ...
Irish Central

Dublin-based Irish language school to offer online classes for the first time

Gaelchultúr, based in Dublin, will offer Irish language classes online from the middle of May. Editor's Note: The following was written and submitted to IrishCentral by Maitiú Ó Coimín, the editor of ...
Los Angeles Times

The Irish language once provoked ‘strong resistance.’ Now it has a place at the Oscars

“For any language to survive, it has to be culturally present.” That’s how Colm Bairéad, whose devastating first feature, “The Quiet Girl” (An Cailín Ciúin), is the first Irish-language production to ...

Trying to pass on Irish language to my children may not be easy but it at least shows I care

Then we moved on to the next row and I started counting again “a h-aon, a dó, a trí...” It doesn’t happen every day but when it does, I wonder if my two young children are confused by this change of ...