The Irish language – folklore, place names, literature, dialects and more – has an extremely rich historic and contemporary heritage. However, it is one of the few contemporary European languages ...

A set of recordings of native Irish speakers compiled by a German professor and the Royal Irish Academy in the 1920s has been digitized and put online. The Royal Irish Academy Library collaborated ...

"Speech has become politicized," says dialect coach Deborah Hecht. "Asking an actor to lose his accent or dialect is seen by some as a put-down of his ethnicity and identity. In any case, it's much ...

A few weeks back, when we were looking at how to find the information you need in dictionaries, I mentioned the so-called Caighdeán Oifigiúil, the standard grammar and spelling rules for Irish. Anyone ...