These native Irish speakers share how Ireland's ancient language and their homeland of Co Donegal have impacted their identity. Annemarie Ní Churreáin (poet & editor), Aoife Ní Ghloinn (Director of ...

The question of national identity in Ireland is one which has a long and complicated history. Beginning in the 12th century, with the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland, the English colonial ...

DUBLIN -- From George Bernard Shaw to Samuel Beckett, from William Butler Yeats to James Joyce, the Irish have long been masters of the English language. It's the Irish language that has them ...

Rosemary Caine rehearses with the Young @ Heart Chorus in 2022. “By the time I was in secondary school in the part of Ireland known as The Pale,” writes Caine, “any residue of the language was gone, ...

Thousands from across the island and beyond came together in Belfast for Oireachtas na Samhna, Ireland's oldest Irish language gathering.

Rhiannon visits with Róisín Elsafty in the Gothic Church at Kylemore Abbey in Connemara. Róisín Elsafty is a native Irish speaker and singer in the sean-nós (“old time”) tradition who comes from a ...

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Niall Tóibín, famed Irish actor who starred alongside actors like Tom Cruise and Pierce Brosnan, died Wednesday after a long battle with an undisclosed illness. He was 89. Born in Cork to native Irish ...