Every Thursday, I give God. I agonized over writing that sentence, the first in the college essay about studying Irish that I was convinced would determine my future. I was applying early decision to ...

More than one million people are actively learning Irish on Duolingo according to data from the language app. A recent report (June 2021) listed Irish as the 16th most popular language to learn on the ...

Teachers and students are taking to TikTok to promote the Irish language to hundreds of thousands of people online in a newly emerging digital trend. The hashtag ‘irishlanguage’ has been used on ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. More than a decade after she moved to Canada from Ireland, Billie Shannon says she feels proud to be ...

Sir, – In school I was led to believe that languages were not my strong suit, and I was better off sticking with the sciences. This despite a grudging grá for our native tongue fuelled by annual trips ...

My mother achieved real competence in Irish, and then gradually lost it. Her exertions were motivated by unrequited love, her ambitions, and even her politics. After she died, I found all these great ...