Just as we explored why the dive bar is so difficult to define, trying to capture what makes a pub is no small feat. The matter is even more complicated when peering through the microscope of cultural ...

Irish pals Sean O'Shea and Michael Orr are on a mission to donate their Irish language board game Botín to every school on the island of Ireland. O'Shea and Orr describe Botín, which they believe is ...

There was an 8% rise in the number of international English language students studying in Ireland in 2017, according to data from Marketing English in Ireland. Student weeks also showed strong growth ...

An early Independence Day garden party at the residence of the U.S. Consul in Belfast on Friday was a good occasion for Irish nationalists and Ulster unionists to sound each other out on their ...

When the Republic of Ireland under-17 team defeated Andorra 5-0 in Cork last October, not many beyond the participants paid the result much attention and, understandably, few of them will have ...

Canadian immigration law requires Irish people to undergo an English proficiency test to gain permanent residency - they aren't happy about it Young Irish immigrants in Canada have expressed their ...

Ireland’s English language education sector is worth close to €1.2 billion to the country’s economy annually, according to new data. A report from Marketing English in Ireland has found that the ...

In 1948, the Irish-language writer Máirtín Ó Cadhain received the kind of rejection letter a novelist might dream of getting. He had submitted his foul-mouthed first novel, “Cré na Cille” (“Churchyard ...