DUP MLA asks why initiative to encourage speaking Irish not repeated for Ulster Scots

When Rossa Ó Snodaigh is not playing with his band Kíla, he is playing with the Irish language. His latest effort is an Irish homophone dictionary – check out the phrases

Conradh na Gaeilge claims 1,100 new jobs in Gaeltacht could be created through scheme

Merrion Square will be loaded with the offbeat, the unusual and the inspired on the capital’s big night out

Angry middle-class parents have been bombarding the Minister for Education with letters

The council wants to get teachers to buy in to continuing professional development and regulation. But how will it do that when it’s about as popular as Irish Water in some circles?

Tánaiste claims Sinn Féin has also used opportunities to appoint party members to boards of institutions

Congregational hall a new ‘playhouse’ venue for Fringe festival

How about establishing a €2 million competition to produce Irish-language films that the world wants to see?

Classes run by sister-in-law of late PUP leader David Ervine at new language centre

Michael D Higgins honours publishers at the Leabhar na Bliana ceremony

For the sisters at the helm of Moonfish, a fascination with the rebellious marionette goes back a long way

A Swiss printer-publisher is producing books in Irish and English in west Kerry – using a Gutenberg-style press. Photographs by Bryan O'Brien

From the traditional (Arts Council) to the new (crowd-funding), there are many routes to success

City courthouse secured as venue for first time

At the epicentre of the recent protests over the union flag, a Protestant Irish-language revival is taking place

Peter McGuire takes a look at the Irish language strategy over the past 20 years and asks what's been done? Millions of euro flow into a range of Irish-language educational quangos. But with few people having little more than cúpla focal, it’s time to question the strategy