Irish Central

How learning the Irish language changed my view of my identity

Every Thursday, I give God. I agonized over writing that sentence, the first in the college essay about studying Irish that I was convinced would determine my future. I was applying early decision to ...
Irish Central

Learning Irish for the first time - a challenge and a joy

From discovering the true meaning to "Dia Dhuit" to figuring out things you really need to say, this Irish American has discovered just how challenging Irish can be... and how rewarding. I love ...
RTÉ Ireland

Will you have a cúpla focal? Fans offered a chance to learn Irish the Father Ted way

Expressions like "careful now" and "down with that sort of thing" have long passed into common parlance and now Tedfest, the ...
Hosted on MSN

‘It’s Irish at your fingertips’: How TikTok is inspiring a surge in popularity for learning and teaching Gaeilge

Teachers and students are taking to TikTok to promote the Irish language to hundreds of thousands of people online in a newly emerging digital trend. The hashtag ‘irishlanguage’ has been used on ...
The Atlantic

Learning My Father’s Language

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 ...
Irish Daily Mirror

Learning Irish has become the coolest trend abroad with language classes booming

Handout photo dated 26/10/25 issued by Let's Learn Irish of a pop-up Gaeltacht in Istanbul.(Image: Caoimhe Nic Giollarnaith/Let's Learn Irish/PA Wire ) The boom in interest in Irish culture is helping ...
CNN

The internet threatened to speed up the death of endangered languages. Could it save them instead?

Noah Higgs hated learning Irish in school. He hated the way it was taught, overly formal and disconnected from ordinary people’s lives. Most of all he hated the effect the lessons had on his fellow ...