With a scholar’s rigor and an enthusiast’s flair, Manchán Magan explores “the enchantment, sublime beauty, and sheer oddness” of Old Irish language.

Under British rule, Gaeilge became a minority language in Ireland, yet it was never allowed to die out and over the centuries, Ireland’s mother tongue was kept alive by people all over the island, ...

Seanscéal agus meirg air, meaning “stale news”, or, more literally, “an old story with rust on it”. This figure of speech aptly describes the annual spilling of ink over the status of the Irish ...