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Irish language will be taught in American universities

Ireland's Minister for Rural and Community Development announced a €471,500 ($538,168) towards the Fulbright Commission to ...
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

Dream of learning the Irish language? Sign up for this new online course

The Center for Irish Studies at Villanova University, in partnership with the College for Professional Studies, will be offering a seven-week online language course in the spring semester of 2021.
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‘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 Conversation

For Gaelic to survive in Scotland, it’s not enough to learn it – more people need to use it in their daily lives

Launched to coincide with St Andrew’s Day this year on November 30, language app Duolingo’s Gaelic course attracted an impressive 103,000 active learners in its first two weeks – outstripping the ...
The Irish Times

‘I’m learning Irish. I need to get comfortable with not being any good for a long time’

I grew up in Catalonia and, until the age of 15, attended my local state school where every subject was taught in Catalan. Catalan wasn’t the topic of education; it was the medium of education. Yet ...