Pól Deeds was appointed as Stormont's first ever Irish language commissioner last October.

The origins of this story go back to last week when the Irish language advocacy group Conradh na Gaelige decided to move to a position of supporting a united Ireland. The organisation’s President ...

Claire Hanna, the leader of Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), marked St. Patrick's Day and Seachtain na Gaeilge by speaking in the Irish language while addressing British ...

Conradh na Gaeilge, the democratic forum for the Irish-speaking community, said that it believes the Irish language was officially spoken in Belfast Courts for the first time since the 18th century on ...

Fresh controversy has erupted around the new Irish language commissioner, after he was accused of paraphrasing an “infamous” republican slogan to claim that opposition to the Irish language “could be ...

The Celtic languages spoken today – namely Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton – all descend from Celtic languages once spoken across Britain and Ireland in antiquity. While the ...

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