Kneecap to headline charity gig in Belfast as part of Féile an Phobail
Uppa Falls gig to take place on August 6th with profits going to two Irish language projects
Irish language
Stories about the Irish language
An Erasmus for Irish?
Spending six months in a Gaeltacht would greatly improve students’ Irish language skills
DCU students named finalists of global UN policy competition with Irish-language project
The team were selected from over 1,500 applicants across 55 countries and will represent Ireland in Beijing next month
Learning Irish: We could all take a leaf out or Ruby’s leabhar
We expect that we should automatically be better speaking it without practice
Awarding extra CAO points for Irish is not the answer
Other subjects would suffer while mediocrity in Irish was promoted
‘I’m learning Irish. I need to get comfortable with not being any good for a long time’
I can see echoes of Catalan education in my new Irish lessons conducted over a few pints
Irish and exemptions
If Irish attracted bonus CAO points as higher-level maths does, it might incentivise students to take the subject more seriously
Irish language teaching should focus on speaking first
Letter writers argue that conversation and immersion are the key to learning Irish
Irish should be taught as a language not a subject
How is it that students at Leaving Certificate level cannot string together a simple conversation as Gaeilge?
Amano De Londra Miura: Being Japanese-Irish is possibly the least interesting thing about me
Amano De Londra Miura, who has roots in Kerry and Japan, blends sean-nós with contemporary music and spoken word
A new approach to Irish-language exemptions
Why not acknowledge that many exemptions are being granted to students newly arrived in Ireland, and provide an alternative qualification?
Meet the Irish college class of summer 2026: ‘Students don’t really miss the phone’
Students in the Gaeltacht discuss pros and cons of attending Irish college
A simple answer to students’ Irish problem
Irish exam is far more demanding and arduous on the student
Leaving Cert Irish paper two contained more challenging unseen elements than in previous years
Prose and poetry questions were approachable but some of the reading comprehensions may have been challenging
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