Ireland has sought solace in its poetic tradition to overcome the coronavirus crisis and provide poignant words of hope to tackle grief and the hardship of lockdown. Verse is ingrained in public ...

Researchers from Cambridge and Queen's University Belfast have identified and defined 500 Irish words, many of which had been lost, and unlocked the secrets of many other misunderstood terms. Their ...

The Irish language, or Gaeilge, is one of Europe’s oldest living languages, tracing back more than 1,500 years. Part of the Celtic family, it developed alongside early Irish societies and was ...

We are all Irish — at least, we are on St. Patrick's Day, which is why it's such a wonderful holiday. Everyone gets to throw on a green t-shirt, attempt an Irish accent, toss around Irish words and ...

St Patrick’s Day gets millions of people parading the streets clad in green clothes, with shamrocks painted on their face, celebrating Irish culture. Thanks to the hard graft of Irish migrants, ...

Researchers have defined and revised more than 500 old Irish words and it turns out leprechaun isn't Irish! While leprechauns are a quintessential part of Irish culture and mythology, the actual word ...

Eight Irish English, or Hiberno-English, words that are "untranslatable" or "cannot be translated into another" are included in the Oxford English Dictionary's (OED) March 2025 update. The OED is ...