My mouth drew the grin of a smug Irish father who had just been handed fresh ammunition to tease his tweenage girl. After her ...

St Patrick’s Day gets millions of people parading the streets clad in green clothes, with shamrocks painted on their face, ...

When performed well, the lilting brogue of the Irish accent sounds mellifluous and musical. When performed poorly, it can sound campy—even egregious. But what makes one Irish accent good and another ...

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 ...

It was the great New Zealand-born lexicographer Eric Partridge (1894 – 1979) who first tumbled on a connection with fáinne, ...

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 ...