Lesser-known key figures and unsung heroes behind the decades-long preservation of the Irish language in west Belfast have been spotlighted in a new exhibition. The old drying rooms in historic Conway ...

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, ...

Seanscéal agus meirg air, meaning “stale news”, or, more literally, “an old story with rust on it”. This figure of speech aptly describes the annual spilling of ink over the status of the Irish ...

“All changed, changed utterly: / A terrible beauty is born,” wrote Yeats in one of the most powerful political poems of the 20th century, Easter, 1916. The elegiac masterpiece simultaneously mourns ...