Northern Ireland's first Irish language and Ulster-Scots commissioners are to be confirmed within weeks. BBC News NI ...

June 13, 2023 at 12:04am BST The popularity of learning languages at Northern Ireland’s schools is “slowly recovering from the pandemic”, a report by the British Council has found.

Timeline: Irish language provision in Northern Ireland :: In 1981, a weekly Irish language radio programme was first produced and broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster.

Among the thousands of people who have made Northern Ireland their home who watched violent scenes unfold twice in the last ...

The Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill 2022-23, which was introduced to the House of Lords on May 25, 2022, will implement aspects of the January 2020 New Decade, New Approach agreement ...

After partition, Ireland made Irish Gaelic virtually an official language but it nearly vanished in Northern Ireland despite commitments to protect it in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ...

Census figures from 2011 recorded 41% of the population in the Republic are able to speak Irish compared to 11% of people in Northern Ireland claiming to have some knowledge of the language.

Nationalist politicians, led by Sinn Fein, want official status to be granted to the language in the form of an Irish Language Act. Unionists, represented by the Democratic Unionist Party, refuse to ...

Hardly anybody in Northern Ireland actually uses these languages regularly. The last census, in 2011, found that more people gave Lithuanian as their main language (0.36%) than Irish (0.24%).

The difficulty was 'resolved' by the Irish word being scraped off, but it was an illustration of how polarised attitudes to the Irish language are in Northern Ireland.

Police in Northern Ireland are treating the defacement of dual language street signs in the Cookstown area as a sectarian ...

The difficulty was 'resolved' by the Irish word being scraped off, but it was an illustration of how polarised attitudes to the Irish language are in Northern Ireland.