IRISH language campaigners at Queen’s University have proposed a scheme that would see Gaeilgeoirí grouped together in halls of residence.

THE CONTINUED delay in legislating for the Irish language at Westminster is causing an "erosion of community confidence" in the British government, according to Conradh na Gaeilge.

THE BRITISH government has refused to give a commitment on when Westminster will legislate on the Stormont cultural package that includes provisions for the Irish language.

The legislation had been promised to be moved by October by the British government.

GO mBEANNAÍ DIA daoibh, hello to the angry and the calm, it’s another Bluffer’s Guide to Irish. The Bluffer was reading an article by Umair Haque in medium.com about the collapse o...

ARRACHT (15, 89mins) Drama, thriller Starring: Dónall Ó Héalaí, Saise Ní Chuinn, Dara Devaney, Conal Ó Céidigh, Seán T Ó Meallaigh, Siobhán O'Kelly, Elaine O'Dwyer, Michael McElhatton, Peter Coonan Director: Tomás Ó Súilleabháin Rating: 3stars A COUPLE of years ago, Lance Daly's excellent Black 47 grappled with the stark brutality and suffering of the Great Famine in the form of a gripping as Gaeilge Western set in its apocalyptic aftermath: now, Tomás Ó Súilleabháin's Irish-language drama Arracht is a smaller scale but no less compelling tale of one man's world torn apart by Britain's calamitous colonial cruelty.

"THIS film could have been made in any language – it just happens to be made in Irish because that's what most of the people who are in it are speaking," explains Kevin Magee of Lá i 1916, his most recent foray into factual film-making 'as Gaeilge'.