COLONIE – Their eyes were smiling to match the laughter as the students dove into their lesson of Irish Gaelic while a faint skirl of bagpipes sounded another class down the hall. What began as two ...

The Irish language, also known as Gaelic or Gaelige, is a Celtic language that has a rich and fascinating history. The origins of the Irish language can be traced back to the 4th century AD, when it ...

Learn Irish for free online with this incredible course developed by some of Ireland's best Irish-language teachers. Learning any language is hard but one of the biggest difficulties for people around ...

Jim Flanagan, right, a native of Ballyvourney in the West Cork Gaeltacht, Ireland, leads an Irish language workshop in a classroom at Butte Central High School Friday morning during the An Ri Ra ...

A free online language learning service with more than 300 million users will launch its Scottish Gaelic course on St Andrew’s Day. Duolingo was launched in 2011 and now has more than 90 languages on ...

St. Patrick's Day, the day of the patron saint of Ireland where people make merriment and wear green, falls every year on March 17. The day, which this year lands on a Friday, marks a celebration of ...

Charles-Rose Greenhart (31) and their partner Raine Greenhart (29) moved from Seattle in the US to Dublin in April and are enrolled in an intensive Irish-language course. Charles-Rose was adopted by ...

My mother achieved real competence in Irish, and then gradually lost it. Her exertions were motivated by unrequited love, her ambitions, and even her politics. After she died, I found all these great ...