It was picked up from the Scots and northeast English word ‘crack’, meaning loud gossip, banter or bragging. Craic then acquired the characteristic Irish spelling its kept since returning to ...

From Paul Mescal's infamous GAA shorts to a shortage of Ireland's beloved stout, the Irish Renaissance is upon us!

spoke Irish in pockets around Ireland on a daily basis, although closer to 2 million (almost 40% of the population) are able to use it. Signs appear in both languages, and words like "sláinte ...

This is a list of approximately 6,500 Irish lemmas (= "words") ordered by frequency of use. It has been extracted from the Irish half of the New Corpus for Ireland and then cleaned up by ...

These old Irish proverbs are certainly wise words to live by but these Irish nuggets of wisdom are both hilarious and really very strange. Go on! Give them a read and try not to smile on this ...

Among them was a lucky scratchcard player from Co Clare, who struck gold not once, but twice. The man, already no stranger to ...