(CNN) — Gaelic-speaking communities in Scotland are in crisis and the language could die out within 10 years, according to a new study. A team of experts from the University of the Highlands and ...

Gaelic in Scotland is in a "perilous state" and more needs to be done to "urgently support" language speakers, a Holyrood committee has warned. The Scottish government has introduced the Scottish ...

Gaelic-speaking island communities could vanish within 10 years unless language policies are changed dramatically, according to a new study. Researchers said daily use of Gaelic was too low in its ...

South Ayrshire Council aims to promote Gaelic in schools, offer opportunities for staff to learn the language, and ensure ...

A new project organized by the Highland Village Museum in Iona, N.S., aims to find out what role the Gaelic language and culture plays in the lives of Nova Scotians today. The research involves ...

Kate Forbes, a Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) politician who speaks the language, has proposed a scheme that would potentially develop Gaelic-speaking housing estates to preserve the language.

The question of national identity in Ireland is one which has a long and complicated history. Beginning in the 12th century, with the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland, the English colonial ...

COLONIE – Their eyes were smiling to match the laughter as the students dove into their lesson of Irish Gaelic while a faint skirl of bagpipes sounded another class down the hall. What began as two ...

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I am not surprised by the passionate defences of Gaelic as our language (Letters, The Herald, October 7). Interestingly, the letters were all in English. The issue seems to be much broader than ...