The new Gaelic dictionary aims to document the history, development and use of every single word in the language Funding of £2.5m has been put in place for the next phase of the development of ...

Funding for a 30-year project to create the first comprehensive Gaelic dictionary was announced by the Scottish government last year. Duolingo's Scottish Gaelic course is available free on iOS ...

He went on to explain that it was a corrupted portmanteau of the German schlim (meaning “slim”) and the Hebrew mazzal ...

Each year, 31 October is a day to celebrate all things that go bump in the night. But where do our Halloween traditions come ...

Years ago, nature writer extraordinaire Robert Macfarlane discovered that the latest edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary ...

In English the is the only form of the definite article. In Gaelic there are eight different forms of the definite article. We will look at the following: ...

The Establishment of Conradh na Gaeilge/The Gaelic League Douglas Hyde, following his late 1892 lecture on the need to de-anglicise the Irish nation and race, founded Conradh na Gaeilge/The Gaelic ...

The spread of Gaelic signs across Scotland is “offensive”, Andrew Marr has said. The veteran broadcaster argued it was “ridiculous” that bilingual signs had been erected across parts of ...

In a major 6 part series for Radio Scotland Billy Kay explores Scotland’s Black History - Scotland’s contacts with Africa and people of African origin from Roman times through to the present day.

Andrew Marr has issued an apology over his comments about the Gaelic language when he called a sign at Haymarket ‘offensive’. The broadcaster said it was ‘ridiculous’ that a sign at the ...

Glasgow-born broadcaster Andrew Marr has apologised after describing the prominence of Gaelic signs in Scotland as “offensive”. Speaking during a question-and-answer session with Scottish ...

Background: Gaelic football, soccer, and hurling are prominent field games in Ireland and involve participants undertaking a variety of playing tasks and skills which place various physiological ...