Storyteller, singer, and harper Kate Chadbourne is excited to celebrate spring and April Poetry Month with traditional Irish ...

Personal tragedy and self-doubt almost robbed Aoife Dunne of her childhood dream, but she overcame her fears and discovered a ...

The history of the Irish Franciscans in continental Europe has been the subject of much scholarly investigation, which has focused mainly on the renowned Louvain college. Although the Irish ...

Galway City Council is conducting its monthly meeting through Irish this afternoon. It is the first time in the history of the local authority that the entire agenda will be dealt with as Gaeilge.

There was great excitement at the Claregalway Hotel last week when 155 children from five Irish language primary schools in ...

THE streets of Naas were hopping again this year on St Patrick’s day for the Féile Sráide organised by Cill Dara le Gaeilge ...

The overall winning float at the parade was that of St Louis Community School, which the judges said was “a powerful float with a heartfelt message about Ireland’s future". In second place was Foróige ...

trees that lined roads now lying on their sides. The librarian, my friend, speaks of water, light, of days given to keeping her mother warm. The children don’t know who the poet is. They’ll ...

The poem Ionmhain taise a-tá i nDoire on Brian Óg's limbs, in the 17th-century manuscript known as the Book of the O’Conor Don We may surmise that Conchobhar Ruadh was in the right (if not ...

We Irish are nothing if not poets. Here is a selection of the best Irish poems and songs that show off Ireland's spectacular way with words and fill us with pride in being Irish.

That’s the magic of the breadth of the Irish language, where a single word can sum up a very specific feeling or entire experience. With Seachtain na Gaeilge here, Fáilte Ireland is ...